Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: World at war runs in DirectX 9, still uses same engine as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with some tweaks, but not as optimized. So if your PC runs CoD4 on low settings at around 80-100 fps you will probably get -20-30 fps drop in this game.
Version Differences
Game is available in retail and later was released on steam.
Patches
What Patches You Need:
There was 7 patches with 3 map packs.
You need:
- 1.2 Patch
- 1.2 to 1.4 Patch
- 1.4 to 1.5 Patch
- 1.5 to 1.6 Patch
- 1.6 to 1.7 Patch
Since there was a lot of new maps the complete patch collection is around 3.3 GB in size.
Save Game Data
Configuration
The player configuration text files can be found in APPDATA folder:
%appdata%\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles
The files are:
- config.cfg for singleplayer
- config_mp.cfg for multiplayer.
Issues and Fixes
Unhandled exception caught
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: 24bit, 4800Hz, 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
- Go to your savegame 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
Performance Improvements
There are many user created configs for better FPS available, one of the popular ones is: