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Original story (published on November 16, 2022) follows:
Since its release, COD: Modern Warfare 2 has become one of the most successful games. The most recent installment in the Call of Duty saga has also become one of the fastest selling games.
So far, MW2 players have been able to enjoy both the campaign and the multiplayer mode. However, now they are about to get the ‘Season 1’ update with a battle pass, ranked matches and more.
MW2 is one of the games that supports the ‘preload‘ feature. This basically allows players to pre-download the content of the Season 1 update to have it ready on the day of its release.
However, currently some COD: Modern Warfare 2 players on Xbox are facing a slow download speed issue during the ‘Season 1’ preload update installation.
Slow download speed on Xbox during COD: Modern Warfare 2 ‘Season 1’ preload update
According to multiple reports, the COD: Modern Warfare 2 ‘Season 1’ preload update is downloading at an extremely slow rate. This is happening even on high-speed fiber optic connections.
Apparently, the update is downloading at speeds ranging from 1 to 5 Mbps on Xbox, which is pretty slow.
The cause of the problem could be the amount of players trying to download the preload update at the same time, who could be exceeding the Battle.net server capacity.
Some potential workarounds
There is no official acknowledgment of this issue yet, but there are some potential workarounds that could help you.
While most of the reports come from Xbox players, PlayStation players could also be affected. However, regardless of the console you use, you can try the following:
In some cases, removing and reinstalling the game without the campaign may fix preload speed download issues.
Alternatively, you can try the good old trick of pausing and resuming the download later.
We will update this story as events unfold.
Update 1 (November 16, 2022)
04:36 pm (IST): COD Japan on Twitter has acknowledged the issue with slow download speeds and asked those affected to delete the game and install it again on PlayStation.
According to support, things have now been normalized on Xbox and Battle.net.
And for those who are getting ‘Update failed’ error, support says that this happens due to a lot of traffic. Moreover, players should wait for a while and try again.
Furthermore, if you are facing installation issues on PC, then here’s what you need to do.
Update 2 (November 17, 2022)
10:44 pm (IST): While the support team claims that download speeds should have normalized, there are still players struggling with the issue.
However, there is a potential workaround that could help improve download speeds.
Pause Download Connect to a VPN server located in Canada. Resume download.
Worked for me. I went from 98kb to 18 MB/s Source
Update 3 (November 18, 2022)
05:33 pm (IST): If you are still getting slow speeds while downloading Modern Warfare 2 Season 1 preload, here’s a workaround that might help you resolve this problem.
NOTE: You can also check the COD saga bugs/issues tracker.
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