Vista - CoD4 Profile Transferring

I've been searching through forums trying to find a place to ask this, and I'm not sure if this is the right place. I just bought a new laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 bit on it, and I wanted to transfer my CoD4 files from my old XP desktop to my laptop. I've tried messing around with a flash drive and some files, but I kept getting an error saying, "Cannot read blah blah, resetting data." Does anyone know that files I would need to put on the flash drive or anything else for this to work?

"5k4r5" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> schreef in bericht
news:15f611704f2874fc5e70c3260516eaba@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Just copy the profile dir to a flashdrive and install CoD4 on your new
computer. Then start CoD4 and create a profile. Copy the profile files on
your flashdrive into the directory made by CoD4 with the created profile
name. Problem solved (as long as the CD-key is the same, but it probably
is.)

Good luck,
Tim

Profile dir? My path to what I am copying is Program Files, Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare, Players, Profiles, and then should I copy that whole file (named 5K4R5) or copy all the components inside? There is a folder inside my 5K4R5 folder called "save," a CFG file titled "config_mp.cfg," another CFG file called "config.cfg," and another file called "mpdata." Inside the save file is another folder called "autosave," and another folder called "internal," and then what looks like a bunch of SVG Documents with the single player missions. Again, could you tell me what I need to copy exactly? Thanks so much for your help and time.



5K4R5

OK, I think I can help. Just figured this one out myself.

Make sure your CD/Auth/Product Key matches on Vista and XP, if you
misstype your product key on the new install, this will give you the
same error as simply swapping the files has so far. Product Key on the
game you're running MUST match the product key associated with the
mpdata file.

First, if you haven't, install COD4 on the laptop. Once installed, run
game, start a new player (with the same name as on your other box - This
may not be necessary, but I KNOW IT WORKS, so, don't skip this step) -
jump on a server then close out of the game completely.

Now, still on the Vista box, open windows explorer, activate "view
hidden files and folders", navigate to
"C:\Users\YourVistaAccountName\AppData\ Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\"
Find the Players folder and delete it... back it up first if you have
any progress on the new system. Make sure you delete the entire Players
folder, not just the game data.
Now, still on Vista, navigate to "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of
Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\"
Once in the COD4 main directory, paste the entire "Players" folder from
your XP system (from USB Key, CD, mem card, what ever your poison) with
all of its subdirectories to this location.
THIS IS IMPORTANT
Right click the icon on your desktop, click properties, and on the 3rd
or 4th tab there is a check-box near the bottom that says "Run this
program as administrator" or something to that extent (I appologize, at
work right now) - Check this box. If you do not run as administrator
every time, you will lose ported data.
I don't know if it is a conflict between Vista and XP or what, but I
did the same thing you did, wondered through all the walk throughs,
finally pieced this one together and it works like a charm.
Don't forget to turn "View hidden files and folders" off when you're
done so you don't go deleting stuff you need later.

NIGHTMARE, sorry man, completely missed your post. I'm not sure of
removing old data and what not on the XP partition, but to just find
your data on the Vista box, look in the same location I'm telling the
original poster to delete from in the above instructions.
"C:\Users\YourVistaName\Appdata\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\Activision\Call of Duty - Modern Warfare" - And again, you will
have to have "view hidden files and folders" selected in your explorer
options.

COD4 is the only game I've installed so far that uses this VirtualStore
crap and it is maddening when you have no idea where to look for your
game data.


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thanks mucho, mmould03 ! Actually, I just found this same bit of
info yesterday !
What fried me was, I used Vista's search function and did a search of
the _whole_hard_drive_ for these config files. Why didn't those
config_mp.cfg or mpdata files that were in the VirtualStore area,
show up in my searches, along with the ones in the \program
files\activision\....\players\profiles\ did???!?!? That's what sent
me on a wild goose chase from the beginning.
When I'd get promoted or unlock challenges and stuff in the game,
I'd look at the modified dates on those files and they never changed,
and I wondered how could that be ?!?!? So I knew they had to be stored
somewhere else on the hard drive, but where !??!!?!?
As I said, thanks very much for looking for me. I hope I can return
the favor for you sometime !


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To find crap in the VirtualStore location, do the following in the
search menu in Windows -
Choose "Search Everywhere" then "Advanced Search" then "Location Hard
Drives," Check the box "Include non-indexed, hidden, and system files
(might be slow)"
Not sure about the "Location Hard Drives" bit, but the "Include
non-indexed, hidden, and system files (might be slow)" bit is absolutely
necessary. It turns out that windows vista DOES NOT index files in the
virtualstore - From my research, I've found that the virtualstore is
some sort of security measure that Microsoft has been preaching about
for years. When a program (COD4) puts config files or ini files
(basically files that users can alter to affect the software their
designed for) in the same directory or directory tree as the program
they affect, Vista now moves those configuration files to the
virtualshare where they are left with read/write access. Supposedly any
software that does this or tells the operating system to select location
will have their config/ini files sent to this area.
This is the same with older (win 95/98/me type) software as well.
Long story short, Microsoft might have just left you a pop-up that said
"BTW, all your files for this crap's in c:/users/bob/virtual...."
Happy Fragging!


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