Modern Warfare 2 PC - Known errors so far...
Monday, November 30 2009 @ 02:46 AM GMT
by Claire Claws
PC Modern Warfare 2 - Three weeks after its release.
What are the common errors and known bugs ? Overall feeling ? How is the game doing ?
Well there is one big winner when it comes to PC MW2's most annoying thing :
Staring at the Connecting to IWNet screen for minutes and realizing this time it wont go away.
The latest CoD title got revamped and now has this new flashly IWNet peer to peer multiplayer set-up. Who needs dedicated servers when you have this easy to use connecting service? Well, last bit is what Infinity Ward, the MW2 developer, told all. And "told" as in "before MW2 got released".
Because IWNet just doesn't work. It can work but it can also not work. And when it works it doesn't mean it is fast. It takes minutes to connect. And even after all the waiting it can be game over. You try again but once annoyed always annoyed. It's nr. 1 for that "and now I throw this game out of the window" feeling.
On number 2 stands a Golden Oldie: " Is it my PC or is it this game ?" Game developers started to really hate the PC on the moment the first Game-console was born. The Xbox and the PS3 were both a dream comes true. A box with same hard- and software for all the video game buyers. And this isn't the case when you develop a game for the PC. A trillion variations in PC set-ups. And few years back there was just the one OS: Windows XP. Now we already talk XP, Vista and Microsoft's latest brainchild: Windows 7.
So what is wrong when Modern Warfare 2 just crashes when you start the game up for the very first time ? Crashes back to desktop, Crashes the whole PC, Freezes the screen and doesnt respond or just Hangs in a black screen. Well it happens a lot. And hours of Googling is not something a consumer had in mind when he/she bought this game.
Firm on number 3 : MW2 STEAM UPDATE GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ! Next to the IWNet there is another 'new' thingy. MW2 PC uses STEAM for auto-updating. On paper; perfect ! Patching all errors on the moment a solution is found. On paper, perfect ! In reality... every time Steam gets used to auto-update MW2; there is this wave of " Can not connect to IW-net, MW2 blames players the game wasn't shut down properly the last time, it just hangs on a black screen etc. etc." And players have to do series of Verify Game Cache's, deleting MW2 files to get automatically new files from STEAM or give up and re-install MW2. It used to be so festive when finally a patch got released. But now IW don't even bother to tell what was patched.
O.... and STEAM already gave players this one a few times : “Steam - Error This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time.” And on such a moment you can't play MW2. NO MP and NO SP. Just no Modern Warfare 2 for an hour . In the evening. When US relaxes with some online gaming. "I want to play MY game." " NO."
The runners up atm are : MW2 Memory Leak shuts down game, DirectX encountered something but is unknown what it is and the PC Community still misses their own dedicated servers. (petition now has 230000+ signatures to get those back)
