Call of Duty 4 (PC Performance)

[Renzu]

Got it today, knowing that there's a slight chance it won't even be playable on my computer. Started the Single Player, because I want to get through that first before I move on to Multi-Player. Loading time didn't really bother me, but it was long (1-5 minutes)

And here we go again, ****ty FPSs. So I go to 640x480 windowed mode, set all the graphic options to minimum, and look up performance tweaks. But I'm still getting really bad FPS. The tutorial was really choppy, I could barely move and finished the relay in 55.31 seconds. Cargo ship level was pretty smooth.

Now I'm at this city, where I'm exposed to all the textures, buildings, and lighting. Lagging like hell, so I just Save and Quit.

Now I'm just wondering if anyone could help me tweak up my config.cgf even more. I want something like Sol's config for GunZ; removing most background textures, lighting but keeping some of the character decals.

Getting upgrades or a new computer isn't an option available to me, I could just throw CoD4 away all together, but not without trying to make it playable.

PC Specs:

Windows Vista (Basic)
AMD Sempron 1.8 Ghz
512 MB RAM (Pretty sure it's DDR2)
Nvdia Geforce 6100 (Shares 128 MB with my RAM)

[MyDream]

Sad to said, the onboard graphic seem to be the bottleneck.(-_-).

[Atlakai]

You bought cod4 knowing that you probably couldnt play it?

And why do you have vista with on-board and low ram? lolz

[guntakeda]

young sir. you will be able to play COD4.
on lowest settings (still looks nice)
I played cod on those sort of settings before i got my new pc.

[Renzu]

I can get through the Cargo Ship stage and the level after that. But the computer has a lot of difficulty going around outdoors of towns because of all the lighting and textures. It's only when I'm indoors do I get smooth FPS.

Originally Posted by Atlakai

You bought cod4 knowing that you probably couldnt play it?

And why do you have vista with on-board and low ram? lolz

I'm borrowing CoD4. I borrowed it because I knew I might be able to play it. I've been able to play Oblivion with 640x480 windowed mode and a lot of tweaking. So I thought I could be able to play CoD4.

I didn't buy the computer, it came free with a three-year contract for Telus High-Speed Internet... my other computer is a lot worse (the processor is better). I tried taking the RAM and processor out of the old one to put them in this one before I found out it was an Intel processor with DDR1 RAM.

[Dash]

You could just buy another 512 mb RAM stick, they're only like $15 now anyway.

[Mr.Lucifer]

Get XP.
Turn off ALL unneeded processes (explorer.exe etc).
Overclock CPU.
Buy more RAM.

I would recommend buying a new comp. Your current one is tragic.

[Odin5]

Originally Posted by Mr.Lucifer

Get XP.
Turn off ALL unneeded processes (explorer.exe etc).
Overclock CPU.
Buy more RAM.

I would recommend buying a new comp. Your current one is tragic.

I hope you actually know what explorer.exe is. It's not "vital" yes, but it's still not smart to shut it down...Unless you like losing your taskbar, etc. (Can be restarted)

[Mr.Lucifer]

Originally Posted by Odin5

I hope you actually know what explorer.exe is. It's not "vital" yes, but it's still not smart to shut it down...Unless you like losing your taskbar, etc. (Can be restarted)

Why do you need a taskbar when you're playing?

[Fail9000]

The only thing thats preventing me playing cod4 is my graphics card, which is the same as yours (Nvidia Geforce go 6100) and it sucks because i can't change it because it is built into my laptop.

I'm hoping for a good external graphics card to be released... could take a while, and it most likely will be high priced.


Can You RUN It?

[Renzu]

Your graphics card is actually better than mine, must be a different model. I don't see why you can't play Call of Duty 4. I can play some multiplayer and single player maps with 15-40 FPS, but some are barely at 10 FPS (although I use 640x480 windowed mode and tweaked my the config.cfg).

[Archetype]

this is keeping the playability of the game intact while squeezing out as much fps as possible. you should achieve ~double the FPS you get with standard low settings.

firstly make sure resolution is 640x480, anti-aliasing is off in options -> graphics

in options -> texture settings they should be:

filtering | bilinear
texture quality | manual
anisotropic filtering | dragged completely to left
all the resolutions | low

then navigate to C:\Program Files\Activision\COD\Players\Profiles\<your name>\ and replace config_mp with attached file

this is for multiplayer, not single player; avoid the maps overgrown, downpour, and wet work (horrible maps anyway) and i think you should be fine. single player is boring, just play MP.

[jappeX]

Originally Posted by MyDream

Sad to said, the onboard graphic seem to be the bottleneck.(-_-).

Yeah.

From what I've heard, Vista doesn't run too well on 512mb of RAM either. I don't see why you got it in the first place.

[Dancing Sun]

Originally Posted by jappeX

Yeah.

From what I've heard, Vista doesn't run too well on 512mb of RAM either. I don't see why you got it in the first place.

Minimum is 1gb.

[JoJo323]

Originally Posted by Archetype

this is keeping the playability of the game intact while squeezing out as much fps as possible. you should achieve ~double the FPS you get with standard low settings.

firstly make sure resolution is 640x480, anti-aliasing is off in options -> graphics

in options -> texture settings they should be:

filtering | bilinear
texture quality | manual
anisotropic filtering | dragged completely to left
all the resolutions | low

then navigate to C:\Program Files\Activision\COD\Players\Profiles\<your name>\ and replace config_mp with attached file

this is for multiplayer, not single player; avoid the maps overgrown, downpour, and wet work (horrible maps anyway) and i think you should be fine. single player is boring, just play MP.

Oh sht Archetype also has his own config on CoD4!