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HowTo: Disable Modern Warfare 2 DLC - no remove from account!

By AUTOMAT and 1 collaborators

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this guide shows how to disable the Stimulus and Resurgence Pack without removing it from your steam account.

After that you will find Lobbys again, because most people who still playing MW2 got no Mappacks.

Guide Version 21.Nov.2013 cause its Steam dependet atm.

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HowTo Disable the MW2 DLC´s

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HowTo Disable the MW2 DLC´s

This may change in future Steam updates. [21 Nov 2013]

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its maybe a bug in the actual normal Steam version + Auto-Update setting for games.

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UPDATE > STEAM fixed it

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[1] Go to Steam settings Beta and press "change" and select "Steam Beta Update"

Press restart. It will start downloading.

after that, Steam will restart.

[2] Disable Auto Update for Modern Warfare 2 SP and MP (or just MP when SP isnt installed).

[3] Close/Exit Steam

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[4] Move to your Steamfolder and open the SteamApps Folder

[5] Search for appmanifest_10180 [for SP] and appmanifest_10190 [for MP]

[6] Open these files with Notepad [Notepad++ recommed]

[7] Delete the marked lines. There can be differences in your files.

save and close the files.

[8] Start Steam and launch MW2 Multiplayer

you will get the following message

[if you don´t launch Steam in beta mode, it will force the update and the recent changes will be gone]

press launch now and Modern Warfare 2 will start without Mappacks.

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before

after

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The DLC´s will not be deleted from your Steam Account and your Harddrive. If you wish to play the mappacks you have to press "update" but you have to change the "appmanifest" files again if you wish to play without mappacks.

no more "Steam Support Delete Method".

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the_jACK_Ripper 19 Dec, 2014 @ 12:26am

Still the better.method vs steam's

the_jACK_Ripper 12 Oct, 2014 @ 12:34pm

Yeah I still prefer this method... steams way makes you constantly dl the dlc

AUTOMAT [author] 12 Oct, 2014 @ 11:39am

u can disable the dlc now in the game properties

the_jACK_Ripper 12 Oct, 2014 @ 10:00am

I still use this method over the gui one inside settings because steam forces you to re download the dlc each and every time

Kenpachi 15 May, 2014 @ 2:54pm

Nice dude :) Luffy san

Autοmat [author] 10 May, 2014 @ 1:20am

Update is Online > Steam fixed it.

the_jACK_Ripper 1 Jan, 2014 @ 12:31pm

yeah it stopped working correctly for me as well... butthe trick to this is to just after its updated erroneously exit steam completely then re-edit manifest 10190 by deleting mounted depots and shared depots and then restart mw2 mp and it will work again... but once you exit and restart mw2 mp it will reupdate on its own... i hope this doesnt result in a vac ban... dont see how it would but who knows

Igra dobra 30 Dec, 2013 @ 4:39pm

Yeah, totally my story RAYZER ... :(

|R|A|Y|Z|E|R| 28 Dec, 2013 @ 6:06am

As of 12-27-2013 this no longer works. I had used this fix, then suddenly it started updating on its own yesterday. Now, I have followed these steps, but the the Steam Beta Update does not stay it always goes back to Opt Out. I have successfully played a couple of times by following all steps, and prior to starting mw2 switch to beta, and quickly launch, but it does not work all the time. Any thoughts or suggestions. I would be fine with removing all DLC, as I will never use, and lesson learned for the future to not buy any.

Suppendämon 20 Dec, 2013 @ 11:35pm

Does it work ? I did everything but if i try to start the game it wouldn´t start because of a missing gamedata.

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