Modern Warfare 2 “Disconnected from Steam” error: How to fix, possible reasons, and more

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Presently, Modern Warfare 2 seems to be having a fair number of issues with its launchers on PC. Both Battle.net and Steam have suffered from glitches and bugs since their release dates.

Players of the latest franchise entry have faced a number of problems with the launcher, with one of the most common ones being “Disconnected from Steam”. This error has been popping up for multiple PC users who are playing Modern Warfare 2 through Steam, and even a week after its launch, it’s still rather prevalent.

What makes it one of the more annoying issues to deal with is the fact that the “Disconnected from Steam” error does not have a permanent fix yet. There are a few temporary solutions that many in the Call of Duty community have tried to potentially fix this issue.

Today’s article will go over some of the workarounds that players can try out to possibly rectify the “Disconnected from Steam” error in Modern Warfare 2.

To deal with the “Disconnected from Steam” error in Modern Warfare 2, here are a few things you can look to do.

Scanning for file integrity may be something that you can do to fix the problem in the game. There can be times when the files in the Modern Warfare 2 installation directory get corrupted. By scanning and fixing them, you can replace the corrupted ones with fresh files.

To do this, you will first have to head to Battle.net or to the Steam client, select the game, go to Settings, and then click on the option of “Scan and repair files”. This will begin a process that scans all the files in the game's directory and automatically repairs/downloads them if any are found to be corrupted.

It’s likely that your game is not updated to the latest patch. A version mismatch can be one of the root causes of the