Call of Duty

[Ng]

Anyone knows how to tweak the settings to run in widescreen mode?
Thanks!

[Paradigm Shifter]

I'll look into it.

[marlboro]

Any news?


Marlboro

[Paradigm Shifter]

At the minute, I'm just trying to get it to stop crashing. On either my laptop, or my desktop. Grr.... :evil:

[aybara]

A lot of people seem to have this problem. But I have had no issues running Call of Duty on either my laptop or desktop.

If you have ideas to try, I am more than willing to hack a few things, even tho I am a newbie here. :)

[skipclarke]

...I am more than willing to hack a few things, even tho I am a newbie here. :)

And we're glad to have you here. 8) Remember, we're all pretty newbie when it comes to widescreen gaming...

[Paradigm Shifter]

A lot of people seem to have this problem. But I have had no issues running Call of Duty on either my laptop or desktop.

If you have ideas to try, I am more than willing to hack a few things, even tho I am a newbie here. :)

I like finding things out for myself. If I get the answer, I get all glowy. :lol: But in a pinch, any answer will do. :wink: CoD runs fine on a mate's PC, and he has exactly the same one as me (I built them both at the same time, with the parts ordered from the same place)... just he hasn't updated his drivers. That's very interesting...

[aybara]

Just offering.

I may poke at it at work after it slows down.

May the best man win. :lol:

[Paradigm Shifter]

Just offering.

I may poke at it at work after it slows down.

May the best man win. :lol:

No worries. :D

[aybara]

Looks like Call of Duty will tweak to widescreen the same way you would with the Quake 3 Engine.

I chaned the 'config.cfg' file in the same way as the Quake 3 thread, and it works.

Although I left the FOV setting where it was. Which was 80. When I changed it to 115, it looked very weird when turning.

Shot001 - 1680x1050 with FOV 80
Shot002 - 1680x1050 with FOV 80
Shot003 - 1680x1050 with FOV 115
Shot004 - 1680x1050 with FOV 115

Sorry if they are too big. Put it to the max resolution of my monitor.

Only thing is, when you run the game it pops up a window asking about letting it 'Set Optimal Settings'. Say no, or the changes you made go bye bye.

EDIT: Also, the intro movies DO NOT play. So you can also change the com_introplayed from '0' to '1' to bypass the intro and go directly to the menu screen.

I found a site that says adding '+set r_optimize 0' to your shortcut removes the warning. BUT, they are not specific on what exactly this could impact. I tried it and do not see anything yet to mess up gameplay. So use this all at your own risk. 8)

[Paradigm Shifter]

Although I left the FOV setting where it was. Which was 80. When I changed it to 115, it looked very weird when turning.

Try setting it to 360. Then see what happens. :lol: FOV is very much a personal setting. I'd probably up it to 95 or something, but that's just me. :wink:

[Shadow]

Just FYI for those of you having problems with COD...

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4291.html

Call of Duty: system hangs or VPU recover error messages playing game

This issue affects the following configurations:

RADEON 9500 Series
RADEON 9600 Series
RADEON 9700 Series
RADEON 9800 Series
CATALYST 3.8 and later drivers

Some users have reported that after the game is launched, the system may hang or produce a VPU recover error.

Hope this helps someone.

[Paradigm Shifter]

VPU Recover causes more problems than it fixes, at the moment. It's a nice idea, but needs more testing!

[jasonm]

One of the devs recommended a fov of 90 for widescreen play. Haven't tried it myself though.

[Menoats]

Ok I am really new at this. Btw great forum its great to know someone took this issue and is at the top of it by making a forum dedicated to be on this topic. I recently got a Satellite P25 S509 great computer just the resolution a bit ignent. I'm trying to fix my Call Of Duty, Warcraft 3, and Battlefield games to display right. Its sad that we have to look for alternate ways of doing this, I mean the developers of the games should be on top of this. I am not a big CS fan but I have the game and 1.6 is just great pure widescreen mode support makes the game look amazing, all developers should follow in their steps and make their games Widescreen I mean if a 6 year old game can have widescreen support why can't newer games have them too? I'll tell you why is because developers could give a ratsass about the consumers satisfaction you already brought the game why should they care thats why we're here trying to solve this problem on our own. I've attached two screenshots of counter-strike to show the diffrence the first is normal 1024 screen and the 2nd is a 1440 widescreen.

[skipclarke]

If you'll send me the screenshots, I'll upload them and collect them in the one forum. That way all the pretty pictures can be in one spot.