Call of Duty: World at War

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Call of Duty: World at War
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Developers
Publishers
Engines
 
Release dates
Windows
November 11, 2008
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 Call of Duty: World at War at Wikipedia
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2003
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Call of Duty 2 2005
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007
Variety Map Pack
Call of Duty: World at War 2008
Map Pack 1
Map Pack 2
Map Pack 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 2009
Stimulus Package
Resurgence Package
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2010
First Strike
Escalation
Annihilation
Rezurrection
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2011
Content Collection 1
Content Collection 2
Content Collection 3
Content Collection 4
Call of Duty: Black Ops II 2012
Revolution
Uprising
Vengeance
Apocalypse
Call of Duty: Ghosts 2013
Onslaught
Devastation
Invasion
Nemesis
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2014
Call of Duty Online TBA

Key points

Advantage All extra, downloadable maps are free of charge, included in the various patches. Steam version automatically download them.
Disadvantage Requires PunkBuster update to play on protected servers which is no longer hosted on EvenBalance's website.

General information

More information Official Call of Duty series site
More information Call of Duty Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Call of Duty game made.
More information Planet Call of Duty - Very old hub for all Call of Duty games. Has mods, guides, and news on the Call of Duty communities. Hasn't been updated for a while.
More information Call of Duty Files - A massive mod hub for every Call of Duty game up to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Retail Disc check SafeDisc disc check.
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name Notes
Map Pack 1 Available for free. Included with Patch v1.4. See Patches for a download link. Windows
Map Pack 2 Available for free. Included with Patch v1.5. See Patches for a download link. Windows
Map Pack 3 Available for free. Included with Patch v1.6. See Patches for a download link. Windows

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

There were 7 patches with 3 map packs.

You need:

Since there was a lot of new maps the complete patch collection is ~3.5 GB in size.

Performance improvements[edit]

There are many user created configs for better FPS available, one of the popular ones is:

Game data[edit]

Game options

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles\*.cfg
Information config.cfg is for single player, config_mp.cfg is for multi-player

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

Graphics options
Texture settings
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Gold.svg
Multi-monitor Hackable WSGF MM Bronze.svg Use Widescreen Fixer.
Field of view (FOV) Hackable See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed Hackable Type seta r_fullscreen 0 into console and restart the game.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Unknown
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Native Default is 4x.
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native Up to 4x.
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Unknown
Color blind mode Native Go to Options, Player name indicator; changes to blue and orange.

Field of view (FOV)[edit]

Fix Start maps in devmode[1]

  1. Bring up the console and type devmap followed by the map you want to load (maps names list is in the reference)
  2. Set cg_fov to the value you like

Notes:

Information Values higher than 100 introduce glitches, like hands cut

Input settings[edit]

Look settings
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Native
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Hackable Type exec default_controller in the console.
Full controller support Impossible Controller doesn't work in menus.
Controller remapping Unknown
Controller Y-axis inversion Unknown

Audio settings[edit]

Information A list of useful audio console commands was available on the Treyarch wiki
Audio settings
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native
Surround sound Native
Subtitles Impossible Although you can enable them in the settings, no subtitles are shown from the beginning of the game until the last cinematic.
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Impossible
French Native Unknown Unknown
German Native Unknown Unknown
Italian Native Unknown Unknown
Spanish Native Unknown Unknown

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play Impossible
LAN play Unknown
Online play Native 18
Local co-op Impossible
LAN co-op Unknown
Online co-op Native 4

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking Native
Peer-to-peer Unknown
Dedicated Native
Self-hosting Native
Direct IP Unknown

Issues unresolved[edit]

No subtitles[edit]

Issues fixed[edit]

Unhandled exception caught[edit]

Common fix (Windows 7):

  • Go to Control Panel
  • Open Sound
  • Right click on your default device (Usually speakers) and select properties
  • Click on advanced tab
  • Choose format: 24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio quality).
  • Apply changes

Common fix (Windows XP):

  • Go to Device Manager
  • Select Sound, Video, Game Controllers
  • DISABLE Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio device

Possible fixes:

  • Disable in-game Voice Chat
  • Plug-in microphone
  • Set compatibility mode to XP SP2

Missing profiles[edit]

  • Go to your save game data folder and open profiles
  • Create a folder and name it whatever you want
  • Create active.txt file (still in profile folder) and inside write name of that new folder you made
  • Optional: make active.txt read-only

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Pentium 4 3 GHz/AMD 64 3200+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
1 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) nVidia GeForce 6600
ATI Radeon X1600
256 MB of VRAM

References

  1. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944197-call-of-duty-world-at-war/46581909