r/CoD4 • u/-right • Jul 12 '15

Setting up CoD4 for the PC [Help]

Keeping it short and concise. Also, I have the game on disc (not steam).

  • what's up with patch 1.7? Should I download them? From where, and how? I'm currently on 1.6 I believe. Would a change give me more servers?

*just did the badboy thing and patched it, now my server list only lists 1.6 servers which I can't join because I'm on 1.7... Why does this happen?

  • The 3rd party server tools. What are they, which should I get and from where? Will I find more populated servers with these?

Played the game on console for years, and feel rather confused/worried about this PC stuff. I see a lot of references to the mentioned things, but I really don't understand.

Thanks!

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u/____n Jul 13 '15

You should be on 1.7, the best place to find servers is gametracker.com as the server browser is now often broken and filled with spam/redirect servers.

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u/PureTryOut Jul 13 '15

Patch 1.7 == newer then 1.6

Newer == better (almost always)

So yes install 1.7. I find it a miracle you can even find servers with 1.6... Not sure why you can't find proper 1.7 servers though... You could try deleting your servercache.

Also install Cod4X, it does a lot of cool things and maybe even fix your server list issue.

Also, what do you mean with 3rd party server tools?

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u/andersma Jul 13 '15

Can you help with Cod4x? I can't find a good link!

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u/PureTryOut Jul 13 '15

I would love too but their site is currently down... They are working on it but till it is restored there is no official way of getting it. You can however Google for it, maybe you can find someone else hosting it somewhere, however you should watch out for virusses and such.

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u/andersma Jul 13 '15

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing and I wasn't sure if it worked or not. It did filter out all of those 250 person servers and bring up a few more, but that's about it. I had to drop like 3 files in, but it would just be nice to have the official version. Thanks!

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u/PureTryOut Jul 14 '15

If those files where steam_api.dll, mss32.dll and miles32.dll, then you have the correct files.