Many people apparently have this problem. If changing your NAT type to open doesn't work for you (or, you already had it on open) then it is probably an issue with the DLC.
People who have downloaded all of the DLC and additional maps have found this problem solved when they uninstall the DLC. Doing so should make connecting to matches much easier. Unfortunately this will mean that you are unable to play maps like Salvage, Bailout and Trailer park...
It is to do with your NAT type. I had this problem and I found that my NAT type was on strict. If it is on strict, then your game will be very picky about which games it will find. When you are on the page which says find game, challenges, leaderboards etc, if you look down it will say something like Your NAT Type: Strict for most of you guys. To get around this, all I did and it may sound really basic is turn off my modem and turn it back on again, run the connection test on system settings and it worked fine. I got this off the xbox website so it is not rubbish and it really should work :)
If you cant find a game your NAT Type must be strict, sorry I dont know how to fix it, I just know that if its strict you cant join, if it is Moderate or Open you can join matches fine.
Oke pll its easy u cant connect to games becuse ur NAT's are strickt u need to open the ports of ur moden look on the microsoft site from xbox and u will see after dowing the things u need to do it wil work. I got in 10secs 46 good games and I god a match directly so it helps :P
Hey guys, I've read over all of these questions and answers and there is a huge variety of each. It's not the new stimulus package because I haven't downloaded it yet. And Although having an open NAT over strict or moderate NAT is much better, It's not that either, because mine has been open for ever and it's been strict also and it didn't make all that much difference. My uPnP is enabled, I'm forwarding the ports, and I've also tried resetting my modem back to default and setting it back up, nothing. I don't think It's the update either because I've even cleared my cache and nothing. And I don't know what you people are talking about deleting the update and it working because you can NOT play the game without the updates, but that doesn't exclude the update from being the cause of this issue. And also since you can play just fine on other games such as Halo,WAW, MW1, etc. and your computer works fine with your connection, it's not your internet connection, or any setting for that matter, because if it was, you wouldn't be able connect to X-box live or Ps3, period. With such an enormous number of people with this issue on both X-box AND Ps3, and this issue being around since the game came out last year in Nov, it is looking like a problem with servers. You have to figure with as many people playing MW2, that there are going to be server problems. Also with all these people and non-dedicated servers and very few ports, there is bound to be some connectivity issues while in matchmaking especially with the slower connections, but it shouldn't last for days like this, lol. This happened to me last month and I thought it was the X-box so I sent it in for repair. Got a new X-box back 3 days ago and it worked, until 4 hours ago. I would try joining a match and it would look for matches up to 75% or so and start over and over and over again. I would then enter a recent player's game, but even then I would begin lagging and it gradually got worse. Can't get a hold of a customer support agent for X-box at the moment due to them being closed and most ISP's don't deal in gaming connectivity problems.... Has anyone tried asking a technician for X-box? I'm going to do that ASAP tomorrow, Or maybe I'm going to try and figure out a way to talk to an Infinity Ward representative or Tech. OR just go back to MW1 and WAW until the issue is resolved, lol. I'll keep you guys posted if I figure anything out.
My son always plays this game and it works fine when he brings it to my house but at his moms it just searches for matches unless he gets an invite from a friend which is pretty strange. I am a network tech here in florida and have read alot of posts of different things that don't seem to be the problem. It always works at my house so I don't see how an update would have anything to do with it. It did work at his moms house one day about a week ago which is the first day he hooked it up over there. He has only had xbox live about a month. One thing that could make sense is that it is a bandwith issue over here I have brighthouse which is internet via cable modem and I have about a 7 meg package for bandwith. She has dsl lite which I think is around 768k so would be very possible the speed of the internet connection is causing this problem, and the problem with dsl is the further your away form the trunk the slower your speed is compared to someon closer and amount of users at a given time will bog it down. That could be why some work at certain times and not other times. Could work fine in middle of day but not in the evening when everyone is online. This is just a thought I am going to test this out by trying to connect over there at different times. Like I said it works at my house all the time but I have a very fast internet connection.
Exactly. It's how they have their servers setup. As of right now they have few servers and none of them are dedicated running with minimal ports which people with slower connections have longer wait times and sometimes laggy game play. In other words, they are to cheap and lazy to address real problems like dedicating their servers and expanding them to more users at one time. Nearly 24/7 there are 9 million+ players online and in the evening and weekends there are more. Like Chumbly said there are certain times of the day that have less players online which makes matchmaking work more efficiently. But, I don't believe it really matters as much with connection speed because its happened to a few of my friends and they have extremely high speed internet. So I'm pretty sure it has to do with the over capacity of the servers for this game. As you notice at the prime times that most gamers are on, hosts get changed alot and servers get lost easier and more.
that blows part of my theory about the faster connection speed, not sure if it could also be something to do with cable modem vs. dsl modem. However ur right on those numbers and thats crazy with the amount of money they are making off these players they need to take a look at whos making the money and host a server in each major city, that wouldnt cost as much as they make in one single day!!! And I still want to figure out why at my house I have no problems at all no matter what day or time, but take it over to his moms and it does not work, she lives about 10 miles. The only difference is she has dsl I have cable modem. I'm going to check some configs on her wireless router about port forwarding like some of the other posts has said and see if that helps. But the real problem is like you said lack of servers, in the meantime I want to figure a way to make it work over there. Simple solution add more servers so we don't have to worry about connection speed, I didn't see that as a requirement anywhere..lol
Alberta here, nothings working for online, until I uninstalled the update and it started working fine. go to game library go onto modern warfare 2 and you should see an option to 'Delete from Hardrive'
servers as of november 11th will be down for a short while due to updates and a re-set of leaderboards. no doubt this is annoying after waiting so long but rest assured it will be up and running within the next couple of hours.
Well looks like us PS3 users have been boned again folks the network crashed as of 7:00 AM central time and has been down for over 12 hours...the Xbox Live network is running fine.This is what we get for not paying for our online service....And as a note I have researched that 1.02 patch it has nothing to do with this issue it was a patch for trophies and leaderboards...so dont go hacking your PS3 in a rage to remove it :)
I have heard roumors that some are still able to play if this is the case then they must not be revamping all the servers or doing them one at a time not sure on that.....And remember Demonware is our third party network provider so START SENDING HATE MAIL!!!!
i think you're right, its probably their servers. idk if they are using different servers for call of duty 1 but I tried playing it online and it worked fine. Then I tried to play COD2 again at my PS3 it just wont pick any games so I guess you were right about all this setting up their servers. I was just so excited but kind of disappointed.
I can't connect to any mulitplayer games on my Windows 7 64 bit Quad Phenom PC
It just sits there saying "need x more players" Annoying thing is it works just fine and connects almost immediately on my original XP box...
Yeah i've got the same problem and i'm on the xbox. Can't search for games, can only join other games in progress. Is there any fix to this? It's really starting to piss me off.
Yeah, it's also the same with PC, and I don't think it's to do with the amount of player because it still says on my computer: "2986757 players online" or something or other.
looks like this is happening to us on the xbox servers too, been off most of the day stuck on the 'testing matches' bit for a while now, rebooted and started again nothing.
i try to go online, and it just sits there saying ''need 7more players' or watever many players. and the stars just keep on rotating. its my very first time playing this game, so y cant I see any servers to join up
I don't think your problem is NAT related. I am from Aus and I know a few people are having the same problem.
IWnet failing again, why can't we have dedicated servers...
Found the problem, there is a game update that steam didn't initiate (surprise surprise) in the My Games tab of steam right click on MW2 and go propities. The on the update tap set the game to don't update automatically. Then go to the next tab and verify the game chace files. This should force the game to update.
My thing says testin matches then it goes to 100% and it has at least 2-15 good matches. Then it starts over and over. It keeps doin that and it says waiting for whatever more players. I'm getting very frustrated. Illinois is f'd up too. Notify IW
I'm having the same problem with my ps3. i've tried playing it months ago but it never worked so I just stopped playing.. but the past couple days i've tried getting online and it doesn't work. I can get onto playstation store and the internet.... but when I try to play COD MOD 2 online it just keeps searching for matches. if anyone has found the problem please tell me!!!!! :D
Well this is the shtiest game ever!!!! I drove 120 kilometers to get a HDMI cable to play online and had to pay to get my phone line turned on $$$$$ also to play ONLINE!! This is fulse advertising and I want my money back!!! WHEN will I be able to play online ACTIVITION???? My ps3 is a great paper weight.
I'm having the same problem and I'm on Xbox Live.... This is ridiculous. Does anyone know where we can get updates for this? Or do they know who we can complain to?
Ok it seems you have to play online for a while and increase your rank. I had the same problem just now and a buddy of mine invited me to a game and I increased my level to level four and now I have the option to search for games. Probably to stop us mere mortals wrecking their hardcore games. Hope this helps
Well definitely the case on ps3 as the higher level you have the more options you can select. You can create your own weapon selections and everything after level 4.
thers noting in the PC manual bsides the a couple pages for what the keys do and diagram of game play showing wat things and sign mean, and couple pages about the whole copyright junk thats it
Well its Jan and I baught the game last night..... I only get into matches on team deathmatch NO other game mode! Tonight team deathmach stopped working as well! im rank 8, does that have anything to do with it? I was playing against level 70's in TDM....
Same here I can chose which game type to play but never actualy join a game. ive tried everything from restarting the router to clearing the sysem cache.
Im on 360 btw.
guys I'm having the same problem on xbox live. Everything was working fine last night and now it just keeps on going on and on saying "We need to find 7 more players" I can't join any game someone please help I'm damn bored
Have you tryed resetting everything
try signing out of xbox live, unplug everything and switch your router off for about a minute then turn it back on plug everything back in and connect to live again
worked perfect for me I got 24/50 matches in a few seconds compared to last time I got 1 match in about 20 minutes
might help x
Same exactl problem I'm having. You should be able to join games with firends that are playing MW2. You can add me if you like. My xbox name is SmackusMaximus. Did you find a fix?
Hi. I am playing on pc and I cant play online because IWnet is searching and searching for other players and I am waiting for about 4h and nothing. Somewone help me plsssss!!!!!!!
Same problem has started on my 360. I've played a good three days worth on Xbox Live, but now it won't find a match. The NAT is open. Xbox Live customer support said my connection is fine and they can't do anything for me but report the problem to Infinity Ward. My NAT is open. If you go to IW forums there are 39 pages on this very topic, but no reply from IW. Looks like we just get to play the game broken?
I guess I've got some bad karma, and I'll just have to join games where friends are playing. Very sad because I was really enjoying the game until this happened.
ya I dont get it I have a ps3 and I go to find game and any game mode and it acts like its trying to find a game for me but never does, its really making me mad, and I cant even join my friends games, can anyone give me some advice for what I should do?
i have the same problem... im waiting 10 minutes for a game the same day the new map packs game out but all of my friends can get into a game fast but not me.... help???
yeah I think its with the stupid update. ever since then I havent been able to find matches either. do what that one guy says and take all firewalls off and it should be all good.
I reset my whole ps3 system completely and all it did was I had to fill out everything from the start when I bought it, I signed in to my email user id, went online, inserted the game and it said to play online I had to download the latest software, otherwise it would sign me out.. so basically I had to download the update again... this isht is rediculous!! :/
some one at best buy said that on the find match screen with create a class and barraks says something at the bottom of the screen with the internet secured or not. im not sure cause I havent tried it u=yet but I hope that this will help u
i hate infinity award, cant connect 2 nothing my friends r in games I get brought 2 d screen then its says cant connect to host. I have good internet and an open NAT type
im having problems getting into games too. the game only runs through the login process once and wont let me go back without freezing. I found if you unplug the internet cord and plug it right back in it speeds up the process. you might piss off your online friends but you get in games a little quicker
to jam 13 all the modders get put into 1 lobby becasuse they are all running the same version of the game have u done some thing to your game codes or by accident put a file in them have a look at that and then try and real install your punk buster or what ever they are using on the current cod hope that helps
Yo guys. If you still have problems with connecting to mw2 servers (Fetching playlist, updating rank etc.) don't blame your ps3 or IW. you have to reconfigure your internet connection, router.i had this same problem but than, on November 18'th my neighbour provided me his internet connection and I works fine. try opening ports, unlocking NAT. good luck
- you have to check you NAT setting, to do this go to system settings>test xbox live connection=if the result is everything connected it means your NAT is open and if not it will say there NAT Strict or Moderate.
- if NAT Strict or Moderate, call your router support to forward the following ports UDP 88, 3074, 53 TCP 80, 3074, 53 then after that try joining to a match again
- if port forwarding did not resolve the issue try to enable DMZ on your router
I have found a temporary solution to xbox users..... But it can be very inconvinient..... First go to the dashboard..... Wait there for a while and look around..... Have a friend invite you..... While at the dashboard.... ACCEPT IT...... It will hopefully skip through the into of the game and send you to your friends lobby...... If that doesn't work try this..... Start your own private match..... Have a friend do the same..... Then have him invite you to the game..... Then it should work when your friend invites you and then tries n find a game...... These only sometimes work for me...... Hope this helps someone....
Try uninstalling it from your hardrive and then search (thats if it is installed already), this worked for me however it took about 5 minutes to find a game.
on the xbox just go to the xbox dashboard then go to my xbox then system settings then go to network settings test xbox live connection when its done and has no proplems it should work
Listen this isnt an answer but I contacted a Microsoft Technical Support Agent and they cant help I called 5 times and nothing. DO NOT call them. Call of Duty online servers are on Infinity Ward and Activision wireless uplinks so contact Infinity Ward instead. The microsoft people are clear and try helping but they will tell you the same as above.They gave me a reference number and will call me back once they have contacted IW and ACTV
I just read this, then went and uninstalled the game from the hard drive and it works again! . .Just installing back on to see if it carries on working.
Solution: change your modem setting from private IP to Public IP address. Once you do this it will find a match quickly with no problem.
How: look on the bottom of the modem. It has a website (ex. Http://343.784.7.25)
go there. You will need your password to access and also access code ( also printed on the bottom of the modem) if this doesn't work call your Internet provider.
Hey guys I cannot connect to the Modern Warfare 2 game... It was okay for a week but I m trying to connet for couple of days but I cant. Please add me as a friend to your steam accounts... e-mail: mceksioglu@yahoo.com.tr
