Hello everyone. As you may know, AlterIWNET, the famous community behind the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 modifications was shut down following a Cease and Desist notice from Activision. After the shut down, the community was divided into two. NTAuthoruty, the main coder of AlterIWNET projects started his own community named FourDeltaOne or FD1 and they developed COD MW2 multiplayer modification tool known as IW4M which allowed dedicated server setup, mod support, extra maps etc. After the shutdown of AlterIWNET, FourDeltaOne's IW4M is now famous among die-hard COD gamer.
Now the FD1 community has released Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 modification tool known as IW5M, which supports all features of IW4M. IW5M is just like IW4M with some extra features like friend list, server-side statistics etc. In this tutorial, I will show you how to play Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Online using FourDeltaOne's IW5M tool.
Note : This tool is not supposed to be used with pirated copies. It has steam check which will not allow you to play using pirated copy. (Tip :> Want to play without Steam? Read below. Still, I don't support piracy.)
Step 1
Preparing everything.
Install Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.
Download IW5M files from here.
Go to FourDeltaOne ( Click here ) and register for an account. If you already played IW4M on FD1, then you don't need to create a new account. Remember that all your statistics are tied to this account and not with your computer.
Make sure Steam is up and running on your computer.
Step 2
Extract iw5m-client.zip file and copy the two files named - DBNetwork.Indigo.dll and LaunchIW5M.exe to your COD MW3 installation folder.
Step 3
Run LaunchIW5M.exe.
It will start downloading necessary files and update files as needed.
After it finishes downloading files, it will ask you the FD1 credentials. Enter your FourDeltaOne account name and password. Check the Remember my credentials check-box.
Step 4
That's it. You are now all set to play COD MW3 using FourDeltaOne's IW5M. You can now browse for servers and join any server you like. Use LaunchIW5M.exe every time you want to play IW5M. You can make a shortcut on desktop.
Frequently Asked Questions/Troubleshooting
I want to play COD MW3 IW5M without steam/I get Steam must be running error.
Make a folder named "dEADwOOD" (not exactly as dEADwOOD. Spot the difference between small and caps, the small letters says something, CAPS DON'T. Don't ask me what does this mean, use your brain) in your MW3 installation folder. That's it. I am sorry but I can't just give away the exact folder name as it is related to piracy. I hope you understand why. It is just not that hard to identify what folder you have to make.
How to play CoD MW3 Multiplayer using IW5M on Windows 8?/I can't install IW5M tool on Windows 8.
Windows 8 prevents you from making changes in the drive it is installed. By default C drive. So you won't be able to make changes in any C drive sub folder. So when you try to run LaunchIW5M tool, it will stuck in between and give you an error that this file is being used by another process, and it won't continue.
So to overcome this issue, you should change permission of the CoD MW3 installation directory. To do so, right click on your game installation directory. Remove the tick mark that says Read Only. Click Apply, OK and OK. That's it.
Now run LaunchIW5M again (right click and run as Administrator). It should install without problem an start the game. If it does, then quit the game and right click on LaunchIW5M.exe, go to Properties and click Compatibility tab. Select "Run this program as an administrator" option. Click Apply/OK and double click LaunchIW5M.exe or launch it from start screen to start the game.
Okay so this was the quick tutorial on how to play COD MW3 multiplayer online using FD1 IW5M. I will be back with more posts. Until then, have fun.
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