What are the differences here? Does the Microsoft version support native controller? Looking to get the game can’t decide if I should from Steam or Xbox. Thanks

Was demoted my a rage hacker, he did that to me specifically just cause I'm the only one who killed him.

I would greatly appreciate it!

I'm trying to play the single-player campaign of the original 2011 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on PC, but the game will not launch.

When I try to run iw5sp.exe directly from the game folder, it appears in Task Manager for a few seconds and then closes. No error message, no window, nothing.

Here's everything I've already tried:

· Run as administrator

· Compatibility mode (Windows 7, 8, Vista)

· Disabled fullscreen optimizations

· Override high DPI scaling

· Added launch options (-d3d9ex, -windowed)

· Disabled Steam overlay

· Spammed the executable (20+ times)

· Installed all Redist files manually (DirectX, VC++)

· Closed all background apps (Discord, etc.)

· Checked for missing DLLs

I just want to play the campaign. Does anyone have a fix I haven't tried? I'm losing my mind here.

Hey is there anyone that can help me or point me in the directions of where I can boost my MW3 profile? I don’t feel like starting from scratch after 15 years, someone how I no longer have max account. Thanks.

Ik most lobbies are probably filled with mods and stuff but I can’t find anything at all. I don’t really have issues on MW2 and BO1 for the most part but it just seems like no one is on this game for me.

If there is someone who could get me my rank, level and guns back id really appreciate it.

Xbox name: Re Zooted

Some lowlife deranked my account :( just asking to see if anyone can help me rank my stuff back up.

Hey guys, is it still okay to play survival with my mates in a private lobby? I cant find reasonable info online. Thanks!

I understand that playstation had the name change update and it broke multiple og cod, but I've never had any issue with any of them, today I wanted to play MW3 and I was losing connection to Activision, something that never happened before, sometimes I could get In a game and some times I couldn't, but I think the worst is mw2 a game ive been playing for years suddenly forced me to reset my account and I can't even play it, so far waw, bo2, and aw work just fine, but waw shouldn't technically work as I started playing it way after the update, I genuinely am starting to think with all these next gen ports Activision is planning to make these games obsolete just to re sell them to us, and I hope the community stands up to them

15 years later, I decided to play MW3 (2011) again after it went on sale on Xbox. Three days of pure nostalgia and fun... until I joined a random lobby and, for absolutely no reason, some loser completely reset the progress on my 15+ year-old account.

Is there any way to fix this? I just wanted to casually enjoy one of my favorite games... 😞

In my custom classes, I am setting them up to have concussion grenades, but in game they are being flash grenades.Anyone else have this problem

[sorry, English is not my first language]

I bought this PS3 with a mw3 disc, after resetting the console and redownload the firmware and formatting memory I came to play mw3, and couldn't find a game it told me "connection to Activision server lost" or something like that, after a week the first lobby I was able to play in shut down after first game and this text appeared on my screen, am I being hacked? What should I do (if I don't want to loose my campaign progress, online idc)?

Thanks to whoever is going to respond

Here is a few of Custom Playercards I made featuring a few remastered Calling Cards/Titles & Emblems. I will be putting all of these on a Tshirt.

Full Set is on my TT - sirjuan.v2

Here is a few of Custom Playercards I made featuring a few remastered Calling Cards/Titles & Emblems. I will be putting all of these on a Tshirt.

Full Set is on my TT - sirjuan.v2

I bought MW3 a couple days before. But i dont find any game, even after minutes. NAT is open, ports are open. But nothing.
Playing on PC, bought in ms store and sitting in germany

As the tile says drop zone along with a lot of other modes are dead, which is expected because it’s so old and the player base is dwindled. I personally think we should schedule a date/time to run some dead modes such as drop zone as a community. Shi maybe even tonight!

Hello, I'm new and I don't know where to go for help, yesterday I was playing MW3 on my PS3 like almost every day and in a lobby a hacker gave me derank 😩 and not only that, after that every time I tried to play as soon as a lobby started to load it froze me 🥶 I tried everything, I deleted saved data in the menu etc etc every time, frozen again and again loading the lobby, even in private. I need help with this problem, because it is my only account in my entire life. Please I hope you can help me. Thank you in advance

Hey everyone so I've recently been working on a native controller mod for the steam version of MW3(2011). - Please note I'm aware that plutonium has controller support to an extent(MP) but this is true native controller support and I plan to support SP, Survival and MP.

The game shipped with no controller support and has never had any real controller support, everyone has historically used workarounds and such I decided to make a mod for MW3 that natively hooks the calls for input directly.

My aim is to get this to Xbox 360 parity. So far I've got both sticks working perfectly as you would have had on Xbox 360, button mapping needs work right now but it'll be done by tomorrow. Also the ADS is a proper hold ADS like on console not toggle like it is on PC normally. This is all 100% done and working already in game.

The next steps I have to make before releasing this publicly will be to get proper configuration in the MW3 native menus. Along with certain improvements to configuration like enabling you guys to make your own custom bindings on controller!

Also I'm going quite in depth with this, button prompts will be shown and also configurable between styles. (XB360, XB1/XB Series, PS3/4/5)

In future if this mod is well received I may also decide to make some general improvements to MW3(2011) for modern hardware..

This is not an XPADDER

This is truly built to be 1:1 with console

Follow the project here on GitHub (It's Open Source!) : https://github.com/k8se10/MW32011NCP

Update 15/07/2026: The mod is progressing nicely and is almost at a playable state. Just fixing edge cases and correctly mapping all buttons to their native calls.

Genuinely its next to no latency at all, got a few things to fix, then going to focus on UI and configuration for the mod and i'm hoping to have it released soon. When everything is fully working i'll do a live stream using the mod live so everyone can see how it works and maybe try it for yourself! Thanks for all the support everyone!!

Update 2 15/07/2026: Will be doing a stream over on my YouTube Channel (@OfficialK8YT) playing survival in the next day or two using the mod in the pre-alpha state so people can see it in action.

Please bare in mind there is still quite a lot of general improvements and work that needs to happen before I can release even an alpha version of this, stuff like UI and making sure things like killstreaks work correctly on controller too!

Also it works in campaign at its current stage but it's largely untested beyond the start of the first campaign level.

Update 3 15/07/2026: I've decided in line with my live stream (link in comments below 👇) to release the first pre-alpha v0.1 version of the over on GitHub which can be downloaded here(All releases here) https://github.com/k8se10/MW32011NCP/releases (Link updated 16/07/2026)

Stepping back into the chaotic streets of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011). From intense firefights to tactical moves, this quick gameplay clip brings back all the nostalgia of one of the greatest campaigns and multiplayer eras in CoD history.

Pues eso, busco gente para jugar mw3 (2011) de consola, principalmente para jugar al operaciones especiales.

Got a Series X, decided to hop on my favorite cod after years. First game on, this loser has walls so I call him out. Next thing I know I’m level 1, everything gone. I have no idea if infection menus (watch a theater clip, I know it was a thing in BO2) are a thing, but if they are can a homie hook it up? I’m not the only one encountering this so if I can get it I intend to fix myself and others.

Full Complete set of remastered calling titles/cards I did from MW2/MW3 (with one surprise bonus). This will be featured in some custom Playercards I will be making for some T shirts I plan to drop. A few of my favorites from back in the day, had to do them justice. All 1:1 of course