[Help] Help!! MW2 Launch Error

Help!! MW2 Launch Error

Ok, I just got MW2 from a torrent, is it ok to talk about torrenting and such on here? If not just delete this thread. Ok, continuing.
When I double click on "iw4mp.exe" to launch Multiplayer or "iw4sp.exe" to launch singleplayer, I get a error, same error for both, and that error says,
" Couldn't load image 'gamefonts_pc' "
I've read around multiple sites about changing something in steam files, but, I didn't use steam, so there's no steam mw2 files.

Other people have gotten this to work for them, but I just can't get it to work for me.
I was missing a few files, but I managed to re-download them and put them where they belong.

I had to wait a day and a half for the damn game to download, I really don't want this all to go to waste :\

I can upload my gamefonts_pc when I get home, then you can replace it with yours.

Apparently it's not just one small file. Try this instead:

Code:

============================================
Fixing gamefonts_pc errors for localized MW2
============================================
 
In certain cases the Modern Warfare 2 executable might
crash with one of the following two errors on launch:
 
----------------------------------
Couldn't load image 'gamefonts_pc'
----------------------------------
(if no 'english' files exist)
 
OR
 
----------------------------------------------
Couldn't load image 'specialty_new_nonenglish'
----------------------------------------------
(if actual 'english' version exists)
 
This can be fixed by going to the main/ directory in MW2,
and renaming all 'localized_russian_iw01.iwd' files (or
'french', or whatever language you use) to 'english'.
 
For instance, my main/ folder (%steam%\steamapps\common\
call of duty modern warfare 2\main) contained the following
files originally:
 
--------------------------
localized_russian_iw00.iwd
localized_russian_iw01.iwd
...
localized_russian_iw08.iwd
--------------------------
 
Renaming them to be named like this fixed the error:
 
--------------------------
localized_english_iw00.iwd
localized_english_iw01.iwd
...
localized_english_iw08.iwd
--------------------------
 
Hope this helps!

I can't do that, because I don't have
%steam%\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 2\main)

this was torrented, not DL'D through steam.

but I do have (C:\Modern Warfare 2\main) and that has files like: video and iw_00.iwd through iw_07.iwd
Also i was told that the \zone\english file should have 97 files, mine has 99, and my \main\video file has 57

Anyone?

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