Frustrated,tired of waiting gamer nicknamed, “RZking” just discovered an amazing fully working way to Play Modern Warfare 2 Online. The story goes like “The Frustrated gamer and His urge to play Modern Warfare 2 early as it hasn’t been released in his home country”.
This guy out of curiosity tried something out of his genius mind and it worked. Things like that don’t happen every now and then which makes it quite a news, so next time when Infinity Ward patches the game or fixes this working way of playing MW2 online, you can always try stuff.
Anyway lets get down to how you can play Modern Warfare 2 Online on steam without the need of any crack.
Note: You never know how much time you have before they fix this loophole as well. So Enjoy the Christmas as much as you can 
Considering generic implications of this method you can try that for other games as well.
Play Modern Warfare 2 Online Without Crack Steam Activated
What’s Needed
You need to have Modern Warfare 2 and Steam Installed.
Part 1|Activate Your Steam Account
Step 1
Make a new account on steam, don’t use your legit account if you don’t want to get your a55 banned in any case.
Step 2
Go to Zero Gear Beta and enter your valid email address to get a beta key.I hope you have a beta key saved from the last time when Cracking Modern Warfare 2 to play Online required similar sort of act.
Step 3
Login to Steam, and go to “My Games” tab. Click on “Activate a Product on Steam” and add the beta key to activate that game.
Part 2|Installing Zero Gear
Follow the instructions, and install Zero Gear. Why you need to install this game would be clear once you will understand the logic behind this in the next few steps.
Part 3|Stop Automatic Updates For Zero Gear
Now once you have installed Zero Gear, you need to stop the Steam Automatic Updates.
Go to Steam>My Games>Right Click on Zero Gear> Go to its Properties>Update>Now Select “Automatic Updates” and then select “Do not Automatically Update This Game”.
Note: Run the game and play a bit to check if it works fine.
Part 4|Replace Zero Gear With Modern Warfare 2
I hope you have a hunch now where it is going don’t you ?. Yes we will replace all the game files of Zero Gear with all the files of Modern Warfare 2.
Step 1
Go to your default steam folder “C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\zerogear\Server”.
Step 2
Select all the files inside this folder and delete them.
Step 3
Copy all the game files of Modern Warfare 2 and paste them in “C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\zerogear\Server”.
Part 5|Modern Warfare 2 Steam Activation Files
Step 1
Download these original files of “Rzking” to run Modern Warfare 2 on Steam Online.
Rzking Modern Warfare 2 Steam Files
Step 2
Extract all the files and paste them in “C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps”. Replace the ‘Common” folder with the one that is provided in the above download.
Part 6|Launch Modern Warfare 2
Now you are good to go, launch “Zero Gear” from in game steam tab “My Games” and it will actually launch Modern Warfare 2. Start playing all Christmas all the way.
Big Thanks to RzKing The Guy Who Discovered This Method.
Zero Gear Beta Issue
Thanks “x3| Invision” for this interesting tip on how you can play Modern Warfare 2 following the same method even if you missed out on the beta keys.
But the offer is limited time only as it directly relates to steam providing it. Anyway the news is as Zero Gear Beta invites are officially over, Steam is providing Zero Gear Demos that can be downloaded via Steam but for limited time. So hurry and grab your Zero Gear Demo if you wanna play Modern Warfare 2 Online.
IWnet Version Support Update
OLD versions no longer supported, IWNet now only support version 1.0.175 so in order to play you will have to use the new crack.
Modern Warfare 2 Crack Update
New crack by Parovoz is out and works with v1.0.175 and enables these features but also has certain limitations.
If you host the game, then you can play or if some one else who has that crack hosts the game, you will play but not if someone with the original game hosts.
Features:
- unlocked “com_maxfps” (up to 1000), “cg_drawFPS”, “cg_fov”, “cl_maxpackets”
- cg_scoreboardPingText = 1
- unlocked “ping_default_min”, “ping_increment”, “ping_searches_per”
- unlocked toggle commands, like bind F8 “toggle drawLagometer 1 0″
- unlocked WinConsole.
The only positive thing you can rely on about this crack is, it enables you to invite your friends for private game and it works fine with that. So invites your friends to play the game for now.
lol zawad i have original key
We\’re Sorry, there currently are no invites left for the Zero Gear Beta. Please check back soon.
:(:(:(
Afridi where is your last invite ? don’t have a saved beta key from last time ?
Thanks for uploading this man
works great
props to RzKing… thanks dude
btw this is not the one that was in development xD its something that a gamer stumbled upon so consider it as your Gift
i got error that no IWD found in \main….
what to do plz help
Man, follow the steps exactly as it is written and you won’t get error of any sort. If you have got an error it only means you slipped at some point.
Anyway Have you placed all your Modern Warfare 2 games files in “Server” folder of installed Zero Gear ?. I think you missed few ….
@zawad.. this is my first time ..anyway will wait…
@Afridi
Resolved….
Even now the zero gear demo is available so better hurry up because its a limited time offer
This is my screenshot of playing following the the exact method mentioned above
http://i47.tinypic.com/2zfo76a.png
If you are facing any problem you can contact me on my id
little_vampire_for_u@hotmail.com
I ALSO BRING A GOOD NEWS
THE ZERO GEAR DEMO DOWNLOAD TIME PERIOD HAS BEEN EXTENDED
So Spread the word and join us!
yeah , i love you ! just hope that this won’t get patched …..i wan dedicated servers plox
hey thanx alot.. it works…
Thanks! This was where I was looking for! =)
Works like a charm!
Does this work on the ripped version of the game?
Ok, I followed the EXACT instructions but when I launch Zero Gear from steam and error pops up saying
“ERROR: Could not find zone ‘code_pre_gfx_mp.ff’”
I checked in the zone folder and saw the file and it was there but it still doesnt work. Any solutions? And by the way I am using the ripped version.
Just wondering why the single player will not launch but the multiplayer does no problem through steam. I tried doubleclicking the iw4sp.exe file but it does nothing. When I doubleclick the iw4mp.exe it works fine for multiplayer. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
thank you for everything.
I figured out the single player but I thought maybe it had something to do with verifying
the game cache, when I did this it updated 6 new files and when I go to start zero gear, the actual game zero gear starts, so I replaced the files again from the above linke for the common directory and iw4mp.exe starts the MP but zero gear still starts from the steam menu, is this a problem in the future?
thanks
Keep in your mind that Steam has updated their software and that this doesn’t work anymore.
is there another workaround?
not yet. not one I know of
please help, i have a problem!!
i think it is 5 part, step 2!
when i downlaod that file i get this folders (when i extract) “1.0.166 patch” , “1.0.172 patch ” and “old backup”, so how can i owerwrite “common” folder with that???’
i dont get it!!
use the old back, it will have common folder and then apply the patch folder that u are using.
Damn, its not working, its because of Steam update?
Thx for it anyway.