Good news for those of you who were frustrated to find that firmware 2.01 appeared to stop Call of Duty 4’s online mode from working, the issues have now been sorted. Infinity Ward’s community relations manager brought the good news earlier today.
“You should no longer be receiving this error message or any other issues related to the firmware update in the game. Thank you to everyone for giving us the heads up on this so we could start tracking down answers, and getting it resolved and please let us know if you have any additional issues.”
A further patch is also on its way to the PS3 version of the game bringing optimisation of some multiplayer aspects, host migration and a ‘player mute’ option.

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Thank god. cant wait for any other updates to further improve the game.
Comment by E-ROLE — Nov 21, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
If only I could get into a mutiplayer game.
Waiting for potential matches…. is burning a mark on my plasma screen.
Comment by Mick — Nov 21, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
@1: Actually I am pretty sure the issues was solved by some employees at Infinity Ward and not God. If you do not believe me pick up the latest book by Christopher Hitchens
Comment by Christian — Nov 21, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
Multiplayer worked with 2.01 - but waiting for a game is a sloooooow process - however, once your in - oh baby “free for all” is magic……
Comment by fusionloch — Nov 21, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
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Great news!! Such a SICK game it’s a shame that the online is so ropey!
My personal favourite; how much of a pain is it when you FIIIIIIINALLY get into a game and you run about for 5 seconds and it ends because “host ended game”.
Comment by ShankTown — Nov 21, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
people dont understand the reason why we wait so long online is that there arent enough players on the ps3 as suppossed to the 360 which probly has atleast 4 times more players so sad to say 360 version gets matches quicker… but i still think call of duty 4 is better on the ps3 aside from that…
Comment by GAT — Nov 22, 2007 @ 6:31 am
@ number 10…….
Are you stupid? I have both version and Live currently has around 400,000 - 500,000 people who have played online. The PS3 has 300,000 - 350,000, So how did you get et 4X the amount? Also the waiting has nothing to do withthe amount of people online, Its because alot of people have NAT 3. But because COD4 is one of the first games using P2P on the PS3. These people who never had problems with any other games with dedicated servers are getting all of these problems because NAT3 restricts people from accessing uploading from your PS3. Which means issues in connecting to other peoples games and other people accessing your info. It has nothing to do with the amount of people online because i have never had an issue connecting to games and i’m NAT2. The Host left the game problem and dispearing clan tags and custom classes still exist but no connection trouble.
Comment by Aaron — Nov 22, 2007 @ 7:53 am
First of all i love your game and think it is the best game i ever played espacially Online. But of course i got a few little problems from the first day i put the game in my PS3:
Everytime i start the online Mode the game won´t give me my real Level (which is like 29 or 30) instead i have to waste a half an hour playing as Level 5 and after a few games (normally 2 or 3) i´m able to play with my real Level but if i leave the online mode only once i need to wait again until my real Level displays again, what is going on?????????
Comment by LaVoice83 — Nov 22, 2007 @ 10:03 am
On average I have to wait 2 minutes to get a game going… things should be better when the patch introduces host migration.
Can someone tell me what all these pingbacks are that keep cluttering up the comments section? Can’t we get rid of them?
Comment by Fuzzy — Nov 22, 2007 @ 10:25 am
“…please let us know if you have any additional issues.”
Sounds like a Microsoft strategy to me; release something half-baked and let the general public do the bug-testing for you.
I never thought it would happen to the games industry, but it’s a direct result of the diversity into things like on-line gaming.
Get used to patches, people. It’s going to become the norm, I’m afraid.
The age of just sticking the disc in and it working are numbered, it seems.
Comment by Zed Zee — Nov 22, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
I don’t believe the waiting for game issue is all due to a NAT2 or NAT3 type. I have a NAT2 and I still have problems connecting to some of my friends, who are all type 3 ansd they have little to no trouble connecting to each other or finding games. I really hope the patch does help this problem. The game is awesome nonetheless.
Comment by DROCK78 — Nov 22, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
game is seriously tasty online! just had my first match not a hint of slowdown! didnt take long to get into the game either!
Comment by Paul — Nov 25, 2007 @ 11:09 am
I’ve had the game for about a week now, and have only managed to play about 3 or 4 games online. Warhawk, COD3, NHL2K7 all work perfectly online.
It’s not a NAT thing, and it’s not a peer thing. You can set up peer games in Warhawk with no problem, and I can connect to other peer games.
Infinity Ward should never have released the PS3 version in this state, and Sony should never had certified it for release.
Comment by Siamondo — Nov 27, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
Unfortunately, there seems to be a growing trend with dodgy online modes when games are first released…Warhawk, PES7 and now COD4…WHY CANT THEY RELEASE GAMES WITH WORKING MULTIPLAYER…AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!
Comment by yours truly — Nov 30, 2007 @ 12:16 am
anyone know why online on the ps3 ,when u get xp points and go up levels then when u turn ur ps3 off all the points are gone and im gone down levels
Comment by jason — Dec 1, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
have anyone had any problems saving there stats on cod4 while playing online. everytime i exit the online mode i lose my stats. is there something i’m missing or not doing
Comment by raw — Dec 2, 2007 @ 3:47 am
my online is pretty slow. im a lvl 47 but sometimes when i go online i come up as a 45 WTF?
Comment by mike — Dec 3, 2007 @ 1:13 am
What is the deal with scores being lost when you exit on-line play?
Comment by Mike — Dec 3, 2007 @ 2:07 am
its annoying it works once then when you wana go bk on it it says error who has tht prob its agging
Comment by darryl — Dec 6, 2007 @ 10:52 pm
…I updated my system but still the online thing is not connecting or something….i cant find any servers to play on! sigh the single player is so short and im starting to get bored playing it over and over again….i NEED TO PLAY ONLINE…anyone know why its not working for me?!?!?
Comment by Eric — Dec 9, 2007 @ 9:02 am
just bought a 40gb ps3 and the game, single player is great but I havent been able to play a game online yet as it just keeps searching for potential matches… left it on for hours and havent been able to play 1 game yet, the online works fine for warhawk and nba 2k8, any fixes for C04 besides the upcoming patch I need to play online as well
Comment by beretta — Dec 10, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
same here, just got a 40gb PS3, and COD4, tryed playing online but getting the BS searching for potential matches. ?????????
Comment by PILOTA320 — Dec 10, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
ive unlocked loads of extras like guns n perks and wen i go 2 custom class there gone,my rank bar goes 2 infinity aswell wats going on ,ive passed d required level so i cant even unlock them again??????
Comment by stephen — Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:16 am
wat does player kicked mean aswell and error cannot connect to activision error33,server timed out,n how can i get all my lost perks dat i unlocked at level 24 and im now on lv31?????and tryn to set chat setting[290] for client
Comment by stephen — Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:22 am
This game is amazing but the dam multiplayer isn’t working! It just keeps searching for potential matches, I even watched a hockey game while waiting on split screen… Anyone know when this is going to get fixed and what the issue is???
Comment by Eric — Dec 16, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
i know d problem,it sucks,it sucks bad ,worst online settings ever,if d online settings worked like warhawk it wud b a brilliant game ,im so angry cause ive unlocked perks dat have been taken away n i cant get dem back cause ive passed d required rank ‘f@~#@[’
Comment by stephen — Dec 20, 2007 @ 10:45 am
i want a refund n a new ps3 for all dis pain infinity ward have given everybody on dis game n d worst thing is dey still havnt sorted it out,cmon get you’ser fingers out n finish wat u started
Comment by stephen — Dec 20, 2007 @ 10:48 am
I got ps3 40gb as a present and 3 days later wanned to try my only game, call of duty 4, online. So i was forced to download 2.03 . Ingame It took up to 6 minnets to find a match, than, after few hours playing PS3 just froze and stopped spinning discs… Game’s, movies, everything… had to send it back…
Comment by Doctor-Pepper — Dec 22, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
Dunno what u all saying .. Multiplayer works fine and i always connect with 1 red bar YaaaaaaY super lag and still get 2nd or first place in team and Ground war matches
im level 43 and code name [Qtr]Aeruis
add me
im freakingly good with LMG and can snipe XD hehehe
Comment by Trinkets — Dec 24, 2007 @ 9:13 am
I am on level 18 in online mode, and i need -700 points to get to the next rank??? the blue XP bar has gone past its end point and gone al the way to the right and it’s going up every time i play??
Comment by Dave — Jan 2, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
I still get probs waiting…… for on line game to start. Sometimes I’m straight in other times it can take 20 mins! It’s a pain in the butt, have downloaded update, so why the prob?
[UK]bournemouth1 if you want to add me, only UK gamers please.
Comment by Ivan — Jan 7, 2008 @ 12:35 am
Well tonight i ranked up to 55 in prostege mode, im on the prestege that looks like an orange dog face with spikes, well anyways, i was in sever cage matches to rank up and get good weps agian, well i made it to levle 5 and opened up creat custom tab, well i customized 2 weps, went into a few more matches, then went to the lobby to play a custome with friends, well when the game started my creat custom tab wouldn’t let me choose my weps, it just gave me the default weps, so i used them till i ranked up to 10, and it still wont let me veiw my challages, my new weps i earned, i have been trying all night to figure out what happend, can somone help me? Dee
Comment by Chinpipe — Jan 20, 2008 @ 12:41 pm
ive got a 60GB ps3 and cod4 and im level 43. its the best online game EVER - thats only if you can get the useless bloody thing to work. i have such problems getting connected because i have to get up at around 6 oclock to get a place online otherwise if i dont i get: “Unable to connect to Activision Matchmaking (Error 33)” but the annooying thing is my best m8 down the road has a 60gb ps3 and cod4 and he has no probs geting connected. I think it may have something to do with who your internet provider is, im with tiscali broadband and our speed is 8mb (we just upgraded from 3) and my mate down the road has AOL and his is 11mb so if anyone has any clues on why i and millions of others cant get online PLEAASSEEE LET USS KNOOWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by connor — Jan 26, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
just to add to that i have no problems with any of my other games getting online. so what is the reason for why we cant get connected? 1) the servers down at call of duty’s end can’t cope with the amount of people tryin to get on? 2) your internet provider? 3) current ps3 firmware? 4) speed of your internet? 5) NAT type? I HAVEN’T A CLUE!!!!! HELP
Comment by connor — Jan 26, 2008 @ 9:32 pm
i just bought COD 4 and sometimes i play online and wait for the game to say waiting for potential matches and stuff like that i need help asap
Comment by junior — Feb 13, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
OMG i keep gettin “DOWNLOADING GAME SETINGS” whenever i click on ” FIND GAME ” i get online okay, but i cant get into a game cause when ever i click on find game it says downloading game settings and then nohting happens, PLEASE HELP
Comment by Tommo — Feb 14, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
an error has shown on my COD4 then the COD4 is all fuzzy now and is hard to see what happened>?
Comment by officer_tj — Feb 16, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
i went to my friends house the other day to play cod 4 online, 2 tvs, 2 PS3s 1 modem but only 1 of us could get on.
Comment by andy — Feb 20, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
hey tommo that used to happen to me wat i did was play a private match (join a m8s 1 ) then leave it worked for me
Comment by to tommo — Mar 1, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
I owned a 60gb and had no problems. I mate wanted backwards compatability with ps1 and 2 games so he bought me a 40gb and took my old 60gb. It seems to me like the 40gb presents me with that wonderfull “downloading game settings” piece of shizer!!! SO FRUSTRATING!!
Comment by Jay — Mar 4, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
TOMMO.. i have the same problem..wat iv started doin is playin on ma psp while im waiting because if yuo leave it about twenty mins it will find the games….but its still annoying havin 2 wait anyone got anny solutions???
Comment by phillypritch7 — Mar 4, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
I cnt seem to JOIN or INVITE ne of my mates on COD 4 online!!!! its very annoying..please help
Comment by Ur-Granpa — Mar 5, 2008 @ 9:52 pm
I have just got this game, and it is awesome - anyway - if any of you are on BT, go to the settings on your pc, go to advanced, then Application Sharing, then UPnP - tick the “use extended sercurity” then apply. Worked for me a charm. Also works for any Xbox360 probs!
Hope this helps!
Comment by ShiftySummers — Mar 12, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
mine wont stop saying downloading game settings when i click on find a game
Comment by kyler — May 17, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
hi
i have brought cod 4 today and installed it fine went to run it and it didnt work so i thought oh well i’ll try mp and it still didnt work so i reinstalled and it had no effect on it some one please help
Comment by Jack — May 17, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
Mine says,Downloading game settings, and that’s it,NOTHING happens.Had PS3 for a week and it’s been fine,switched it on yesterday, and THAT message is there. Tried again tonight, same thing happened. What’s going on ???
Comment by darren — Jun 5, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
mine says online error then about 10-20 seconds later i boots me offline please help.
Comment by Sam — Jun 20, 2008 @ 4:05 am
downloading game settings for me too then nothing……………… very sad! great game played on it loads but in the last week its been playing up.
Comment by phil — Jun 23, 2008 @ 11:00 am
why does it say down loading games setins plz some one help
Comment by michael — Feb 19, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
PLZ HELP
Comment by michael — Feb 19, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
what do i do plz some one help
Comment by michael — Mar 14, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
HELP ME!!!
ok so many of you are saying that you keep getting downloading game settings and it won’t go away…SAME i rent cod some times it works fine but today I get it and it just says that all the time and i cant play im on 60gb my mate has 40gb and it works fine CAN ANYBODY HELP!!!
Comment by Joshua Cod4: downloading settings...forever — May 20, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
i have an xbox360 and i’ve just brought a ps3 never had the smallest problem with the xbox but i’ve been sat here now for going on 3 hours and im yet to play online if it works so well on one why not the other?????
Comment by dan — Oct 7, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
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