Call of Duty: World at War Multiplayer PC Beta Installer Now on FileFront
By Stephany on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 5:17 AM PST In Activision, Call of Duty, Computer, Game Demos, Gamer Life
Last Wednesday, Activision and Treyarch announced details on how to sign up for the World War II shooter, Call of Duty: World at War Multiplayer Beta for the PC, and today is the day you can get in on all the fragging fun.
Now up on FileFront, the Call of Duty: World at War Beta installer is ready to be loaded on your PC; however, before you get to downloading make sure you are aware of the all the ins and outs of what it encompasses. We posted these details last week, but here they are again just in case you missed them:
- The beta gives you and service providers the option of hosting your own servers; however, dedicated servers will be Windows only for the duration of the beta. “GSP’s will be able to sell beta servers and put up as many dedicated servers as they’d like. All of this will function as if it were a regular multiplayer game”.
- Registered user will receive a special key that will allow them to create a profile name and play the beta. This offer also includes people who sign up after the beta has already started.
- Your globally unique user name will be very important, because for the first time ever the PC version will be incorporating invites and your friends list so that the squad mechanics will work just like the console versions. Clan tags can also be added as a prefix.
- Just like with the Xbox 360 version of the Beta, all accounts, experience and friends lists will be deleted after the beta is concluded.
Now, the only thing left to do is sign up, and you can do that by visiting the official website and enlist with the Call of Duty Headquarters. If you happen to have preordered the PC version from GameStop, you already have a beta key so sign up and and then head on over to FileFront where yo can get the installer by hitting this link or the badge below.
As always, after you have played around with it a bit, be sure and let us know what you thought of you experience in the comments section below.
I’m enjoying it…
Its got that same feel as CoD4 to it
How does it look, comparison wise… will the CoD purists and Treyarch haters be coming out of the woodwork? LOL
No matter what I enter, it won’t let me create an Online Profile. Suggestions?
install it because when I had that promblem it worked so try
Have no idea Hammer. Try the FAQ on the Call of Duty site or the forums. I am not playing it so I have no way of knowing what to offer you as far as suggestions on that issue. Sorry.
i have to say it very fun the dogs are way better then the helo you can shoot them and kill them and the guns feel fresh, and one reading this complaing about jap using tompans what about sas using a ak47. it a buy for me i hope the single player is good, oh yea the beta having a lots of problems right now so just wait.
No matter what I enter, it won’t let me create an Online Profile. Suggestions? x 2
Make sure you use the SAME profile name as your account on http://www.callofduty.com
This will not work, got the new directX and it still wont start this BETA sucks for me as of now!
I hate it. The dogs are way too overpowered. Espically in hardcore mode. Sigh, why did have to mess with COD4’s damn near perfect multiplayer?
i cant get it to work, i installed the beta and updated direct x
, then when i think the problems solved, it has an error message and it wont run. 
i found out theres alot of other people witht his problem as well. 
.if anyone can help me with this, that would be great 
My previous post:
No matter what I enter, it won’t let me create an Online Profile. Suggestions?
I downloaded the installer again but from a different website (FileShack). I tried to unintstall the existing COD-WAW but the installer failed so I installed over the existing version. By the way, the downloaded installer was missing a file extension so I had to add a “.exe” to the end. Sure enough, the first download must have been incomplete or corrupted because this time COD-WAW allowed me to create a profile (actually, to use my exising COD profile)!
Distorter and anyone else having this problem, try a fresh download and re-install. It just might solve the problem. Good Luck.
Hammer, I’ve got the same problem, but then I disabled firewall protection on COD and everything went GREAT…
Im having a similar problem. I tried what Hammer did but mine wont work. I tried using my profile name on the website and not even that worked. Whats even worse is I can’t view any forums on the CoD site because it tells me to register or log in when I already am logged in. wtf is with it? plz help any1
d3dx9_39.dll
. Any ideas?
You have to download the file seperatlely, then just un-zip it into wherever you installed the COD beta. I had that error. But it still wont work, starts loading then a message pops up saying that it has stopped working
Had same problem, then i download the latest copy of directx with the online installer worked straight away, Try searching “directx_mar2008_redist”. Now i just need to get it to connect to the online service.
There is an error when I click the game on. It says the application has failed to start because d3dx9_37.dll was not found. It says to re-instal it and I did but the same error happened. HELP!
d3dx9_37.dll goes into your system32 folder within windows not the install dir of the game.
put it here.
C:\windows\system32\
# Raimis says:
November 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hammer, I’ve got the same problem, but then I disabled firewall protection on COD and everything went GREAT…
hey mate how did u disable firerwall protection on cod?!
i need help because it said there is a error of video card
first of all hi !
i had those 2 problems 1) application has failed to start because d3dx9_37.dll was not found 2)you can’t create profile because you are not on line …s.like that. the second came after i solve the first one by copy the (d3dx9_37.dll) from the direction of c:windows/system 32/.d3dx9_37.dll
i help with the first …someone pls help me with second.? thank’s
……ps: i copy it in to the game directory for example c:program files activision/call of duty(tm)beta. see my firstcoment erlier up. thanks!
Hi there, im havin trouble with my call of duty world at war for PC.
Multiplayer isnt so bad when theres not many players involved, but single player, it takes ages loading, im talking like 5 minutes, maybe a bit less. And thats each level and from when i first double click the icon on my desktop. And sometimes during gameplay its ok, but other times when theres a lot happening, explosions etc its really slow and like laggy. I go on systemrequirementslab.com and it says my graphics card doesn’t meet the requirements for this game, but it also says that for dead space, but thats runs ok. Could my graphics card posibly be the problem? Its a Radeon X1350/X1500 series or something at 256MB. Any comeback to this will be very much appreciated. My addy is wwftherockisthebest@hotmail.com aswel. Thanks, Jamie
Dear all
I have a small problem. I have installed Call of Duty – World At War after installation I wanted to start playing the game. I selected single player…I gave me a message. The game has not been closed properly and has to start in safe mode..yes or no….. so neither of them work…. The screen starts and turn black….and them I’m back at my desktop. I have installed it five times now…. Can someone help me….please!!
FAI – (from Nov 26th)
Did you ever find out what is happening? I am having the exact same issue and it’s driving me crazy…please help someone.
My new COD World At War is having issues, when I select single mode, it ways the game was not closed last time and will have to be started in safe mode…when I press either yes/no, it flickers and then goes back to the main page of my desktop.
Please email me privetely or on here: bionicbuff@yahoo.com thanks
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