Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

1. Crashes and freezes22 of 300 (7%)

   Well known issues cause the game to frequently crash during startup.

   Steam review, 2 May 2026 · 3 hours played · 77 readers marked it helpful

   Won't launch — crashes during the initial loading screens every single time, no error code, nothing in Event Viewer, no crash logs anywhere.

   Steam review, 25 July 2026 · 0 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpful

2. Launchers, accounts and anti-cheat13 of 300 (4%)

   Complete waste of money if your setup isn't 100% stock Windows, since the anti-cheat apparently refuses to even start otherwise.

   Steam review, 25 July 2026 · 0 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpful

   - Stay connected to the internet because the campaign is always online.

   Steam review, 11 July 2026 · 5 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpful

3. Will not launch or install12 of 300 (4%)

   Won't launch — crashes during the initial loading screens every single time, no error code, nothing in Event Viewer, no crash logs anywhere.

   Steam review, 25 July 2026 · 0 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpful

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   Steam review, 5 May 2026 · 0 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful

4. Performance and stutter9 of 300 (3%)

   I experienced checkpoint stutters, distant textures refusing to load properly and other annoying bugs that shouldn't be present in a premium AAA title.

   Steam review, 11 July 2026 · 5 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpful

   Full of Propaganda, Bugs, Optimization problems, low fps, boring story and a huge file size

   Steam review, 25 July 2026 · 17 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful

5. Servers and connection9 of 300 (3%)

   not only the story is kinda poorly knitted together, is rather disconnected, and not engaging at all, but the stealth missions must be done in extremely specific ways, or you die.

   Steam review, 21 May 2026 · 9 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful

   The game may advertise co-op, but as soon as you do not want to play with random players through normal matchmaking, everything becomes unnecessarily complicated and disappointing.

   Steam review, 12 May 2026 · 8 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful

A further 4 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.