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.
Sound
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.
Game Options
Click on [Options] then [Game Options] and set your options to the following:
- Enable Crosshair: No
- Enable Console: Yes
Click [Apply].
Controls
This section covers updating Call of Duty's dated control scheme to the standard that most modern shooter games use. This is how I prefer the controls and I highly recommend changing them.
Look
Click on [Look] and set your options to the following:
- Mouse Sensitivity: On the 5 setting the mouse sensitivity is extremely high for my mouse, so you'll probably need to lower it as well
Move
Click on [Move] and set your options to the following:
- Toggle Crouch: C
- Toggle Prone: Ctrl
Shoot
Click on [Shoot] and set your options to the following:
- Switch Weapon: Q
- Melee/Steady Sniper Rifle: Unbound (Backspace)
- Melee Attack: F or Mouse Button
- Steady Sniper Rifle: Shift
Interact
Click on [Interact] and set your options to the following:
- Use: E
Console Commands
The last thing we need to change ingame are two values using the console. The first lets us increase the anisotropic filtering above the default maximum value, and the second disables the startup logo videos from playing.
Press ~ to open the console and enter each line:
r_anisotropy 16 seta com_introplayed 1
Now exit the game.
yytssln's ReShade Mod
ReShade is what really updates the graphics of the game. The mod enables a lot of shaders to be used with the game, the most notable of which is ambient occlusion.
go to insall directory Unrar and copy all four files inside "新建文件夹" to your install direct open d3d9.ini with any text editor
EffectSearchPaths=I:\Activision\Call Of Duty 2,I:\Activision\Call Of Duty 2\reshade-shaders\Shaders TextureSearchPaths=I:\Activision\Call Of Duty 2,I:\Activision\Call Of Duty 2\reshade-shaders\Textures ScreenshotPath=I:\Activision\Call of Duty 2 PresetFiles=I:\Activision\Call of Duty 2\COD2 yytssln's Reshade.ini
