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Code of Honor
Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion	2007
Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island	2008
Code of Honor 3: Desperate Measures	2009

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Code of Honor series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Demo

A demo is available here.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Essential improvements

4 GB patch

4 GB Aware Patch^[1]

Download and run either of these tools: 4GB Patch or Large Address Aware Tool.

Notes

Fixes several issues and improves game performance.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos via the native config tool^[1]
Open the `<path-to-game>\Config.exe`. Move to the `Options` tab and tick the Disable Movies box.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\CODE OF HONOR 2\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%PUBLIC%\Documents\City Interactive\CODE OF HONOR 2\

Video

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Hor+.
Multi-monitor		Hor+.
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+.
4K Ultra HD		Hor+.
Field of view (FOV)	See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed	Start the game with `+windowed 1` parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Use dgVoodoo 2.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Up to 4x FSAA. Soft shadows are not rendered when enabled. See Anti-aliasing (AA) for an alternative. Users with an Nvidia graphics card can force high quality SGSSAA with the `0x004010C1` AA flag in the Nvidia Profile Inspector, or use dgVoodoo 2 for 8x MSAA.
High-fidelity upscaling	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	Use SpecialK for more settings.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

4K Ultra HD

In-game FSAA setting must be set to Off before enabling 4K resolution, otherwise you will be stuck in a black screen. If this happens, reset resolution via settings.cfg. If you need AA at 4K, see Anti-aliasing (AA).

Field of view (FOV)

This game uses vertical FOV. See FOV Calculator for help.

Set custom FOV^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Create a file named `autoexec.cfg` with a text editor. If using a widescreen resolution, add this line: `"FovYWidescreen" "XX.00"` where XX is the vertical FOV value. If using a non-widescreen resolution, use `"FovY" "XX.00"`.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

The Soft Shadows option will have no effect if the FSAA option is enabled.

MSAA solution (Nvidia only)^[1]

Open the game and disable the FSAA option.
Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
Search and open the game profile.
Set Antialiasing Compatibility to 0x004000C1.
Set Antialiasing Mode to Override any application setting.
Set Antialiasing Setting to 8x Multisampling or your desired level of MSAA/CSAA.
Apply changes. Do the same for the Extraction Point expansion.

Notes

May have a very negative performance impact even on modern systems.

Alternatively, SMAA is available through an injector.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

FSAA is unavailable in windowed mode. See Anti-aliasing (AA) for an alternative.

If this method doesn't work or causes issues, you can try Borderless fullscreen mode.

Set borderless fullscreen windowed mode^[1]
Ensure the game's resolution matches your desktop resolution: Launch the game. Go to the game's Options > Display > Resolution and change it accordingly. Close the game. Go to `<path-to-game>`. Create a file named `autoexec.cfg` with a text editor. Add `"Windowed" "2"` on a new line.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play	16	Versus
Online play	16	Versus GameSpy services have been shut down;^[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

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

Issues fixed

Black screen on startup

The problem is related to incorrect codecs for intro videos.

Download and install K-Lite Codec Pack^{[citation needed]}

Slow loading level and aero disabling

Occurs only on Windows Vista and Windows 7, because of the special graphic stack WDDM.

Install game only on Windows XP, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10^[3]^[1]

Notes

Using Windows 8.1 or 10 significantly reduces the launch time of the level, perhaps this is due to improvements in the WDDM graphics stack.^[4]

Control key settings are not assigned

Keyboard settings reset to unassigned when restarting the game.

Run game as administrator^[1]

Soft shadows not working

Soft shadows not working despite the setting being enabled.

Disable anti-aliasing in the game options^[1]

Notes

This is due to the features of the engine and the artificial limitation of the simultaneous use of anti-aliasing with soft shadows, since they can cause graphic artifacts on the shadows.

Game crashes when loading a map in LAN as a listen server

Run the game in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2 and disable fullscreen optimizations/display scaling on high DPI settings^[1]

"Disconnected from server" when playing singleplayer

Method 1: Apply the 4 GB patch^{[citation needed]}

Method 2: If the game shows this error when loading a level, set texture resolution to Medium^{[citation needed]}

Black screen on ATI/AMD graphics cards

Disable Soft Shadows and Pixel Doubling in the game's settings^{[citation needed]}

Run the game in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3^{[citation needed]}

Install RuntimePack^{[citation needed]}

Flickering textures on modern systems

Use dgVoodoo 2^[1]

Notes

(nVidia only) Enhancing the in-game AA to SGSSAA may solve this issue as well (further testing is required).

No dialogue playing

Enable/install Windows Media Player^{[citation needed]}
Windows N/KN versions: install Windows Media Player. Windows Vista and later: open the Start screen/Start menu, type `OptionalFeatures.exe` and press `↵ Enter`. Then, ensure Windows Media Player is ticked. Windows XP: press `⊞ Win`+`R`, type `appwiz.cpl` and press `↵ Enter`, choose Add/Remove Windows Components. Then, ensure Windows Media Player is enabled in the list.

No gunshot sound

Install Creative ALchemy^{[citation needed]}

Notes

If using a non-Creative sound card, use GenericALchemyDerestrictor as well.

Key mappings are not assigned

Run the game as administrator^[1]

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See [2]
TriDef 3D
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see the vorpx forum post.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	EAX Unified, Windows Media Player
Multiplayer	GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP 32-bit
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz AMD Athlon XP 1700+	Intel Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3 GB	3,5 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon X600 Series NVIDIA GeForce 210 DirectX 9 compatible	AMD Radeon HD 6550D NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

References

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Developers

	City Interactive
Publishers
	City Interactive
Engines
	Lithtech Jupiter EX
Release dates
Windows	August 19, 2008
Reception
Metacritic	32
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, South America
Series	Code of Honor