User:ProdigyLain/test

Installation Setup

This guide assumes that the user is beginning with a clean Call of Duty 2 installation. If you already have the game installed back up any files or game saves you wish to keep then reinstall Call of Duty 2. It is recommended to install games to an SSD if available. Call of Duty 2 should be installed outside of "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" folders as Windows User Account Control can cause issues with games.

The first thing to be done is to create the player profile. Start the game for the first time and you will be prompted for your profile name. Enter your name then click [OK] and [OK]. Next make sure to quit the game.

Before we start changing the settings, we actually need to quit the game first because changing specific settings will cause your game to crash. To avoid this they need to changed outside of the game.

Config Editing

Navigate to the directory where you installed the game, then go to "\Call of Duty 2\main\players".

Inside the "players" folder open the folder with the name of the profile you created.

Open "config.cfg" with a text editor. Notepad has no line spacing so preferably use another text editor such as WordPad, Microsoft Word, or Notepad++.

Use Ctrl + F to find and change the lines below:

seta r_mode "800x600"
seta r_rendererPreference "none"

seta r_mode "1920x1080"
// Set to your monitor resolution
seta r_rendererPreference "dx9"
// Set to dx9

Save and exit the config file.

Graphics

Now we are able to change the ingame settings without causing the game to crash. There are a couple things to take note of here. Anti-aliasing needs to be off for ReShade to work, but ReShade comes with its own Anti-aliasing so you're not missing out. Sync Every Frame is a fancy way of saying VSync. The game has no FPS cap on by default so if you want VSync off, there will be nothing capping your FPS.

Start up the game again and click [Options] then [Graphics] and set your options to the following:

• Screen Refresh Rate: Set to your monitor's refresh rate.
• Texture Filter: Anisotropic
• Anti-aliasing: Off
• Sync Every Frame: Yes
• Optimize for SLI: Set to No unless you have dual Nvidia GPUs.
• Shadows: Yes
• Number of Dynamic Lights: High
• Soften Smoke Edges: Everything
• Number of Corpses: Insane

Click [Apply] and you will be taken back to the main menu.

Click on [Options] then [Graphics] then click [Texture Settings] near the bottom of the list. Set your options to the following:

• Texture Quality: Manual
• Texture Resolution: Extra
• Normal Map Resolution: Extra
• Specular Map Resolution: Extra

Click [Apply].

Sound and Game Options

Next are the Sound and Game Option settings. Note that technically the best option for "Sound Provider" is Creative Labs EAX 3, but that option doesn't work for me and I doubt it will for most people either. Also the crosshair setting is preference and since I am only playing the campaign I like to have the crosshair off to keep the HUD clear.

Click [Sound] and set your options to the following:

• Sound Quality: 44hkz High Quality
• Sound Provider: Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio

Click [Apply] and you will be taken back to the main menu.

Click on [Options] then [Game Options].

• Enable Crosshair: No
• Enable Console: Yes

Click [Apply].

Controls

modern and controls that you will probalby be more used to from modern games.

Look

[Look]

• Mouse Sensitivity: For whatever reason the mouse sensitivity is really high for me by default, so you'll probably need to lower it as well

Move

[Move] ...sexplain

• Toggle Crouch: C
• Toggle Prone: Ctrl

Shoot

[Shoot] in the options menu.

• Switch Weapon: Q
• Melee/Steady Sniper Rifle: Unbound (Backspace)
• Melee Attack: F or Mouse Button
• Steady Sniper Rifle: Shift

Interact

Click on [Interact] in the options menu.

• Use: E

Console Commands

PRess ~ to open the console

AF Default is x8. It can be increased up to x16

r_anisotropy 16

Skip intro:

seta com_introplayed 1