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- Gathering of Tweakers (dutch, so probably useless for most of you) http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/33715894#33715894
- Steam: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1203841
- Infinity Ward: http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=300482
--Short Story--
I'm trying to get Open NAT on CoD:MW2, but for some reason I can't get it to open on Windows XP, but it works fine wherever I try it on a Windows 7 PC. Having used several old and clean installs of both windows XP and Win7 on different systems, I just don't know anymore what could cause win XP to fail and 7 to open.
--Longer story--
I've been trying to open my NAT on my gaming PC for some time now, but never succeeding. After a long struggle with fort forwarding, uPnP and DMZing I tried to run it on my laptop.
I fixed the basic port forward and look, it works. The only difference I could see was that my laptop was running windows 7, compared to the XP that's running on my desktop.
At first I tought this could not be the problem. Since then, I've tried it on severeal computers and I always come to the same result: Open NAT is only possible on Windows 7, and it won't work on XP.
I've tried 2 computers with XP, I've tried clean installs of XP, I used all the basic settings that work on 7, but it just won't on XP. I took one of those XP PC's, installed a Win7 on it, and without any effort, it opened my NAT.
General settings:
- uPnP is off in the router (doesn't work either way)
- No DMZ, didn't work for XP anyway.
- portforwarding in my router works (confirmed by portforward checker, and the fact that it works on Win7)
- I did have to add my external IP to the IP list of my connection in Win7, but in XP it won't work.
- all firewalls are off, I've tried with and without Avast AV, win 7 is fine with avast anyway.
I'm at a loss here, I'm sure there are people out there that have open NAT on windows XP, or this should have been a massivly known item (I don't find much relevant on google)
What gives?
--Preemptive answers--
Yes the game works, I just want to get open NAT on XP, or understand why it won't work.
Yes, routing has been done, tested and confirmed working on Windows 7
Yes, I've configured Windows XP the same as the Windows 7 (there might be background default settings I might have missed)
Yes, I'm no native english speaker/writer, my apologies for any mistakes.
- Hey guys, im playing lots of Modern Warfare 2, but sometimes i get Nat Type: Strict. Like when i want to play Co-op, it sometimes is on Strict, its also that when im playing Multiplayer.
- Sep 21, 2019 Modern Warfare, Black Ops Cold War NAT Type: Strict. If you have a Strict NAT type, you’re restricted to chatting and playing multiplayer games exclusively with people who have an OPEN NAT type. You also can’t be chosen as the host of a match. How to check your NAT Type. On Xbox: Scroll left from Home to open the guide. Select Settings.
Infinity Ward has started clamping down on naughty gamers who flout the rules in Modern Warfare 2 for PC.
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'Top men are on it,' creative strategist Robert Bowling tweeted when someone asked him about it on Friday night.
'In fact, the Steam ban hammer is coming down on about 2,500 confirmed #MW2 cheaters on PC today.'
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One of Infinity Ward's justifications for moving from a dedicated server model to its peer-to-peer IWNet alternative was the ability to clamp down on cheaters quickly.
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It wasn't able to completely eliminate hacks, however, with evidence of unlimited ammo, XP boosts and other cheats appearing on YouTube within a week of the game's 10th November launch. Presumably this is the end of that, for now.