A Call of Duty Clan

A very interesting fix in regards to the graphics if you wish to see a huge improvement is to change the image quality setting to “native” the extra option will try to upscale the graphics and ruin the overall quality. Many clan members as well as myself have found this to be a huge improvement to the overall fun factor of the game.

Here are some additional tweak i have found.

seta ai_corpseCount “32″ – old 16
seta r_aaSamples “8″ — old 4
seta r_texFilterAnisoMax “16″ — old 4
seta r_texFilterAnisoMin “16″ — old 1
seta ragdoll_max_simulating “32″ –old 16

You can find the config file under your my docs directory. I will post more as we find them.

KwC|Beaver

Updates to Call of Duty: Black Ops – Multiplayer have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

The major changes include:

Call of Duty: Black Ops – Multiplayer Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser Performance improvement for dual and quad core systems.

These are similar to the below ones, i recommend changing these in the config file don’t use the console.

Navigate to, X:\Steam\SteamApps\common\call of duty black ops\players

Open the config_mp.cfg and edit the following lines.

seta r_multiGpu “1″
seta r_multithreaded_device “0″

to

seta r_multiGpu “0″
seta r_multithreaded_device “1″

seta r_glow_allowed “1″ to seta r_glow_allowed “0″ another good one to try.

Should hopefully speed things up.

There have been a few minor launch problems with Call of Duty Black Ops, Below are some general tips and tricks sourced from game forums and clan members that seem to improve game play.

Clan Tags:
Remove your clan tag from your Steam name. Then in config_mp.cfg (Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty black ops\players) alter seta clanName “clantag” to match your clan tag – it will put it in square brackets.

How Can I Remove the FPS CAP?
com_maxfps 120

Does Your PC Support multi-treading:
seta r_multithreaded_device “1″
in config_mp.cfg (Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty black ops\players)

Other “Potential” Performance Tweaks:
Run Steam in Offline mode > Start Black Ops > End the steam.exe process > Set BO process priority to high
/r_multiGpu – should be set to “0″ if you do not have a multi-gpu graphics card.
/r_blur_allowed – people are reporting minor frame boosts with this set to “0″
/r_distortion – people are reporting minor frame boosts with this set to “0″
/r_dof_enable – people are reporting minor frame boosts with depth of field set to “0″
/r_glow_allowed – people are reporting huge frame boosts with this set to “0″
/cg_brass – people are reporting minor frame boosts with depth of field set to “0″
/r_cachemodellighting “1″ – people are reporting minor frame boosts with depth of field set to “1″
/r_cacheSmodellighting “1″ – people are reporting minor frame boosts with depth of field set to “1″

From The Steam Forums:

after launching the game press alt-tab , then ctrl-alt-del to bring up task manager

on the processes tab

right click steam.exe *32 and set priority to LOW

right click BlackOpsMP.exe *32 and set priority to HIGH

This has help many people, i have personally seen improvement here.

Other useful commands:

cg_drawFPS1 – Show Framerate

In Many cases no matter how much you change your video  cards settings you will not see an improvement, this is mostly due to the fact that there appears to be a problem with the games CPU usage. Really the above fixes may only tide you over until a proper patch is released.