How to save your rank in COD4!!

[Killerfurby6]

if your windows crahes you will loose your rank and your guns!!
if you dont want that go to your COD4 files and copy/paste your players/profiles file to another harddrive or to an usb stick!!
updating it could be helpfull if you level up and or get new guns, skins or whatever!!

[SoupyC]

It still strikes me as INCREDIBLY STUPID that they don't keep this stuff on a master server, ala BF2/2142. But I guess I'm in the minority. Oh well...

[redish16]

Its stupid, but its money for Activision. Why pay for servers when they don't have to?

[Killerfurby6]

i totaly agree with that!! and i only posted to help you keeping your ranks!!

[SoupyC]

Nah, I appreciate it Killer :D I just had to wipe and reload my OS, and I did a backup through Steam of COD4 and for some damn reason it didn't backup my profiles. So I'm bitter.

Thanks for the info though. As soon as I rank up I'm gonna do that.

[antigen]

Hey.. found this and blatantly ripped it off another site:

HOW TO BACK UP YOUR COD4 PROFILE

Hey Guys,

Lots of people are talking about loosing there stats, that would be very bad!!! So I wrote a little script that backup your files, so you won't need to backup manually every time. This will only work for windows XP, (for Vista see below) assuming your installation is on your c: drive, if not just modify the scrip!

XP Option 1 (Recommended)
Just copy and paste the following text into notepad

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@echo off
:: variables
set drive=C:\Program Files\Activision\Backup
set backupcmd=xcopy /E /I /Y /D
echo ### Backing up COD4 Stats and profiles...
%backupcmd% "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles" "%drive%\%folder%"
echo Backup Complete!
@pause
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Save it as (cod4backup.bat) or what ever you want to name it, but it needs (.bat) for extension, put the file anywhere you want, create a shortcut on your desktop. When you double click on it (option 1), it will copy all the existing profiles from COD4 to C:\Program Files\Activision\Backup directory! The first time you use the script it will copy your complete profile and rank, you will see lots of files flashing by. Then the backup is incremental, meaning that it will only copy the files that as change since the last backup. Typically only 2 files will be copied after the initial backup (mpdata, config_mp). Make sure your stats are ok before you run the script! Because every time you backup you overwrite all files in the backup folder, that is why you should only run this script after you are finish playing and you know your data is sound.

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XP Option 2

Just copy and paste the following text into notepad

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@echo off
:: variables
set drive=C:\Program Files\Activision\Backup
set folder=%date:~9,4%_%date:~3,2%_%date:~6,2%
set backupcmd=xcopy /E /I /Y
echo ### Backing up COD4 Stats and profiles...
%backupcmd% "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles" "%drive%\%folder%"
echo Backup Complete!
@pause
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Save it as (cod4backup.bat) or what ever you want to name it, but it needs (.bat) for extension, put the file anywhere you want, create a shortcut on your desktop. When you double click on it (option 2), this script will backup your COD4 stats & profile in a directory named by the current date, located C:\Program Files\Activision\Backup directory. If you use (option 2), Don't forget to cleanup your backup folder once in awhile, cause every time you backup you create a folder for the current date. Get rid of the old backups, this script was requested by PSY for the reasons mentioned below.

Quote:
Nice work. Is there any way you can make the back up folder be automatically renamed with the date? I've made a backup of my profile folder every day and named them accordingly just in case I ever want to go back to rank 10, or 30 or whatever, but this batch file would be an easier idea. Only thing is I wouldn't want it to overwrite every time it was backed up.


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Vista users

You will need to make some modification to the script for it to work...change the PC in {bold} to your PC! Your backup folder will be located in C:\COD4_Backup.

Vista Option 1(Recommended)

Just copy and paste the following text into notepad

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@echo off
:: variables
set drive=C:\COD4_Backup
set backupcmd=xcopy /E /I /Y /D
echo ### Backing up COD4 Stats and profiles...
%backupcmd% "C:\Users\{PC}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles" "%drive%\%folder%"
echo Backup Complete!
@pause
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Vista Option 2

Just copy and paste the following text into notepad

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@echo off
:: variables
set drive=C:\COD4_Backup
set folder=%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%
set backupcmd=xcopy /E /I /Y
echo ### Backing up COD4 Stats and profiles...
%backupcmd% "C:\Users\{PC}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles" "%drive%\%folder%"
echo Backup Complete!
@pause
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See the instruction above to run.


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How-to restore your profile..

Warning : The stats and product key are linked together, you can't restore a backup that was created with an different product key!

This is what you do...
1- install the game if needed (using the same product key).
2- enter the game, create a profile with the exact name you want to restore.
3- Exit the game
4- copy the profile in question from your backup folder back in to the game folder, overwriting all files.
5- start COD4, it will say that your setting as change since last used, do you want to ......bla bla bla, awnser NO.

Enjoy, your done!

Hope it help's Wink

If you have questions you can contact me at jquest0396@hotmail.com

Jq

[StevenNevets]

I don't have the game but the way ranks/saves work, it seems like you could up your rank on your own. Or create your own if you lose yours.

Open and edit the save somehow, if anyone knows what I mean?

[Tigiot]

I don't have the game but the way ranks/saves work, it seems like you could up your rank on your own. Or create your own if you lose yours.

Open and edit the save somehow, if anyone knows what I mean?

Files are probably encrypted or obfuscated, it'd take a bit of work and they probably have checksums for the main files saved in other files.

[Cheify0]

ty for the tips!!!

[Aeromotor1]

Nice find, Thanks all backed up now!!

[Drayu]

stickied!

[Mad5cout]

I wanted to post another option for this for those of you who are interested. The COD forums I frequent posted this and I thought it would be an easier option for the less tech saavy. DL and isntall the program and put in your COD4 profile name (not in-game name but your user profile in COD4) and then you can save with a click of a button.

http://files.filefront.com/Call+of+Duty+4+Backup+092/;9106524;/fileinfo.html

[Drayu]

I don't have the players folder in my vista install....any ideas? do I have to play a single player game first or something?

[Killerfurby6]

I don't have the players folder in my vista install....any ideas? do I have to play a single player game first or something?
try it!! you dont need to finish a mission just do the training and save after the end!!

[Drayu]

grrr.....can't I just put the profile in there :( (Which btw I already tried to no success :( )

[Killerfurby6]

let me tell you : Vista sucks!!:flipoff:


does this file realy not exist on your computer??

C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles (typical installation)

you can also look here:C:\Users\Easty\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Pro gram Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles\your name\

and maybe you find something here:http://forums.getgsc.com/showthread.php?t=730&page=3

[Lord ALF]

I don't have the players folder in my vista install....any ideas? do I have to play a single player game first or something?


i have that folder and i'm on Vista (and no Furby, it doesn't suck).

-alf

[Kernel Error]

Also if you have to reinstall Vista like i did resently it creates a file called Windows.old that has all your files from the last install... came in handy for getting my COD4 profile back.

[Drayu]

In vista your profile is saved here:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Progr am Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles

[[W33T] Joker]

I am just wondering..My game hasn't crash yet..but I back it up..and why don't then have Master server..I thought thats how they keep track of your rank..

[loopcycle]

a couple weeks ago i visited some server that must have been running custom stuff. so i sat there downloading a bunch of crap, it seemed to hang for minutes, so i closed the game and relaunched it. i lost all of my class info but i still had my rank. i replaced all my files from a previous backup (i do it manually) and i completely lost my rank! so i put the most recent files back in place, got my rank back, and just recreated all my classes. i dont know how this backup is supposed to work, or whether it works at all.

has anyone lost data and had to restore from backup yet? what steps did you take?

[FozzyBear]

I experienced the same thing.


All of my custom classes "looked" like they were gone. All you need to do is rename them. All your choices should still be there.

And as for restoring a backup, I just put the copied file I backed up over the one there. Presto, instant back up.

[Tigiot]

Yeah all my classes are name Custom Class 1/2/3/4/5 now since I played the ATE4 mod.

[Uncle_Ho]

In vista your profile is saved here:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Progr am Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles


In Vista on my computer there is no AppData after C:Users\MyName\(Nothing Else)..........

I was trying to move my folder from my XP drive to Vista but no place to put it.

[FozzyBear]

Rt click on your desktop shortcut, and click find target. Your folder should be somewhere around there :)


Unless, you downloaded it through STEAM. Then someone else will have to chime in again.

[Uncle_Ho]

Find Target is not an option, Open file location doesn't show appdata either....

[Uncle_Ho]

Here is what it looks like where appdata should be, it's not in the saved game folder I already looked.

Can I just transfer my game with all my unlocks and rank from my xp drive to my vista drive?

[macrylinda1]

Its stupid, but its money for Activision. Why pay for servers when they don't have to?
i totaly agree with that!! and i only posted to help you keeping your ranks!!