Cant install Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on XP

The problem while installing CoD:MW2 on Win XP is as follows.
Im running WinXP 32bit.

When I insert the CD1 and go through the installation process Steam says that game weighs ~11GB and then I click next and then the window with 2 installation bars appear.
There is the "X/Y installed" where Y should be ~11GB and in my case it only shows ~4GB [see bottom picture] (depsite the fact it showed in the previous window 11GB).
When the installation of 4GB is finished, the setup says that the game was installed and can now be accessed etc. It did not ask to insert the 2nd CD?. After that it attempts to download the huge file off the internet.

Is there any solution which would allow me to install CoD from 2 CD's?

I've tried installing, then re-installing, deleting, then reinstalling multiple times and was not successful.

 

Plug your CD-KEY into STEAM and you can download the game.

 

I'm pretty sure he knows this, that is why he is specifically asking if there is a way he can install it with the DISKS, in BOLD.

 

I would just use the download method and then make a backup disk.

 

there may be a problem with your disc 1.

seek replacement discs or DL straight from the internets.

 

>.> also you specifically said it won't work in xp, does that mean it did work under a different OS?

 

I've heard of issues with the 2nd disc being faulty. It was said somewhere that a few people had this happen. So either suck it up and download from the internet or try to go to your retailer and get a defective exchange. I don't think it has ANYTHING to do with XP. Or find someone do what I did for my sister and just make a backup of my own steam game onto DVDs and let her install from there. Know anyone with the game that has it installed?

 

If you PM me an address, I'll back up MW2 on a pair of DVDs (or maybe one dual layer DVD if it will fit) and mail it to you.

 

Well, this is pretty complicated, but I'll try to explain it. I have 2 computers 1 with XP the other with Vista.
I've managed to install this game sucessfully using the 2 CD's once on the two computers (which means the discs are fine). Then after about a week or so, Steam was displaying that it was downloading an update. However this update was so huge that I left it to dl for the night and it was only 54% complete. I suspect that it was dl'ing the whole game for some reason, as the only update there was, was a 1MB one. This happened in both cases.
I had this problem with installing from 1 CD on the computer with Vista, and needed to run it as administrator + run it in XP Mode multiple times etc to get the 2nd CD working.

I decided to reinstall the game, with a hope it will not dl the big file, and now I cannot install it. My internet is not fast, thefore I want to avoid dl'ing bigger files like that.

Ye, I do know a person, so I just copy the whole CoD:MW folder onto an external HDD and paste that into Steam/common/ ye? Do I need to chnage any file in that folder to my CD-KEY?

 

its a known problem with vista but this is the first ive heard with xp.
it took me 7 hours to get it sorted on release day.
it would recognise the disc and connect to steam to enter code and then the disc would stop and it would continue downloading it from steam but would just hang at 80%

all the answers are on the steam or IW support forum HERE and HERE

also updating steam to the new beta version was recommended.

 

Yeah basically you can do one of two things. You can just go into ://steam/steamapps/common/MW2 folder and copy that 11GB folder to an Ext. HDD and put it into your steam folder. Don't worry about key, it's already tied to your steam account and that's the DRM right there. Make sure steam was exited before transferring the files. Open up steam and it might automatically d/l what you need remaining, or right click your game file and do a verify integrity of game. It will make everything all right after that.

2nd option is using Steam's built in back up feature on your friends system. It will back it up into whatever file sizes you want, or automatically break it down into 4.7GB files for DVDs, or you can just set it to like 15GB max file to make one huge file to keep on ext. to backup onto your own machine. Just run the steambackup.exe while logged in your steam account and go from there.

I recommend the first option first since steams back up feature sometimes gets weird. I did this for my sis since her monthly bandwidth is 20GB and this would eat up 11GB for the month! hahah

 

Thx for the help.

I copied the whole folder and it workes fine now. I also found a reason why after the install, Steam was downloading the whole game again. I bought CoD:MW2 in a different language version and then changed the interface lagnuage to English in Steam settings. After this chnage, Steam was dl'ing the whole English version of Call of Duty (thats what I suspect). Now that I have the English version its all fine (only dl'ed the 1MB update).

However I still don't know why it would not install from the second CD, but I have the folder on the HDD, so I guess it does not matter anymore.

 

awesome! glad you can play