Manual installation

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You will not receive updates when installing IW4x manually!
Please use the Launcher installation instructions instead.

Manual installation

If you run into issues with the IW4x Launcher or use an older Windows version you can manually install IW4x.

You don’t have to do this if you followed the Launcher installation instructions!

1. Download Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

Find Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) - Multiplayer in your Steam library, click each and select Install. Wait for the downloads to finish before you continue!

2. Download the IW4x Client and Rawfiles

Client

Rawfiles

3. Locate your Game folder

Your game folder is located in your SteamLibrary, you can find it through Steam by selecting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) in your library, right-clicking it and selecting Manage -> Browse local files.

4. Manually install IW4x

Move the downloaded iw4x.dll into the game folder.
Extract the contents of release.zip into the game folder.

Your folder should look similiar to this:

• Directoryiw4x/

  • …
• Directorymain/

  • …
• Directorymiles/

  • …
• Directoryuserraw/

  • …
• Directoryzone/

  • …
• binkw32.dll
• iw4mp.exe
• iw4sp.exe
• iw4x.dll
• iw4x.exe
• mss32.dll
• zonebuilder.exe

5. Run iw4x.exe

Double-click iw4x.exe to start the game!

Note

If you are on Linux add iw4x.exe as a Non-Steam game in your Steam Library for best performance, you can try different Proton versions to see which works best for you.

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