Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Developers | |
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Treyarch | |
Publishers | |
Activision | |
Engines | |
IW engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 13, 2012 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 74 |
IGDB | 78 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Vehicles | Automobile, Flight |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Africa, Middle East, North America, Contemporary |
Series | Call of Duty: Black Ops |
Call of Duty: Black Ops | |
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Subseries of Call of Duty | |
Call of Duty: World at War | 2008 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops | 2010 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 2012 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III | 2015 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII | 2018 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 2020 |
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 | 2024 |
General information
- Official Call of Duty series site
- Official forum
- Steam Community Discussions
- BO2 Optimizations Summary - Useful optimization list thread.
- CallofDutyMaps - A detailed Website for all included multiplayer maps.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Steam | ||||
Humble Store (unavailable) |
Version differences
- Black Ops II: Contains the base game.
- Digital Deluxe Edition: Contains the base game, Call of Duty: World at War, original soundtrack and digital deluxe content, no Season Pass.
- Black Ops II Bundle: Normal version with Season Pass.
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Season Pass | Contains Revolution, Uprising, Vengeance and Apocalypse packs, also Nuketown Zombies Map. 1 special Calling Card for Season Pass owners. | |
Revolution | 4 Multiplayer maps, 1 new weapon for Multiplayer, and 1 Zombies map. | |
Uprising | 4 Multiplayer maps and 1 Zombies map. | |
Vengeance | 4 Multiplayer maps, 1 new weapon for Zombies, and 1 Zombies map. | |
Apocalypse | 4 Multiplayer maps and 1 Zombies map. | |
Nuketown Zombies Map | ||
Nuketown 2025 | Free, initially available as exclusive pre-order content. | |
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Ultimate Customization Bundle | Contains Extra Slots pack, all Calling Card and Personalization packs. Ghosts and Advanced Warfare Personalization packs are not included. | |
Extra Slots Pack | More slots for Create-A-Class, emblems, films and screenshots. | |
Bacon Personalization Pack | ||
Ghosts Personalization Pack | Free, Call of Duty: Ghosts pre-order bonus. | |
Advanced Warfare Personalization Pack | Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare pre-order bonus. | |
Benjamins Personalization Pack | ||
Dia de los Muertos Personalization Pack | ||
Graffiti Personalization Pack | ||
Jungle Warfare Personalization Pack | ||
Kawaii Personalization Pack | ||
Party Rock Personalization Pack | ||
Viper Personalization Pack | ||
Zombies Personalization Pack | ||
North American Flags of the World Calling Card Pack | ||
South American Flags of the World Calling Card Pack | ||
European Flags of the World Calling Card Pack | ||
African Flags of the World Calling Card Pack | ||
Asian Flags of the World Calling Card Pack | ||
Cyborg Personalization Pack | ||
Paladin Personalization Pack | ||
Aqua Personalization Pack | ||
Breach Personalization Pack | ||
Coyote Personalization Pack | ||
Glam Personalization Pack | ||
Pack-A-Punch Personalization Pack | ||
Rogue Personalization Pack | ||
Beast Personalization Pack | ||
Dead Man's Hand Personalization Pack | ||
Octane Personalization Pack | ||
Weaponized 115 Personalization Pack | ||
Afterlife Personalization Pack | ||
Comics Personalization Pack | ||
Dragon Personalization Pack | ||
UK Punk Personalization Pack |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
- Mission cutscenes automatically play until the mission level is loaded, upon which a left click will allow skipping.
Delete video files[citation needed] |
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default.bik default.webm dolby.webm frontend_load.webm intro.webm treyarch.webm |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\players\bindings_xx.bdg[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/202970/pfx/[Note 2] |
- There are several configuration files in the
players
folder but onlybindings_sp/mp.bdg
is unencrypted.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\players\save[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/202970/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See the WSGF entry. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | 65-90°, configurable in the in-game options menu | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | There is a "Texture filtering" option with low, medium and high settings. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 8x MSAA, FXAA and up to 4x TXAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Called "Sync Every Frame" in game. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Multiplayer is capped at 200 FPS. | ||
Ray tracing (RT) | |||
Color blind mode | Set in Options. Changes green and red elements to blue and orange.[1] |
- A comparison of video setting image quality can be found on the GameSpy Port Authority.
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | No mouse acceleration, with no option. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Occasionally changes button prompts |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, SFX, Music, Voices, Cinematics. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Not available in every language [2] | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | No option to disable it. |
- Game supports 7.1 positional audio and there are several sound mixing settings in menu (bass heavy, high heavy, hearing impaired etc.)
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | Only available in Japanese retail release.
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Polish | Only available in Polish retail release.
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Brazilian Portuguese | Consoles only (text/voice); Download (audio). | |||
Russian | Only available in Russian retail release. Patch for digital release here.
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Spanish | Some non-story essential audio has not been dubbed. | |||
Latin American Spanish | See Latin American Spanish audio mod |
Latin American Spanish audio mod
Latin American Spanish audio mod[6] |
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Network
- Having an "open NAT" is important for VOIP, joining/hosting a party and private matches (this may require a static IP).
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 18 | Versus, Co-op Zombie mode 4 player co-op. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 3074, 27014-27050 |
UDP | 3074, 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27030 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | 2D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. Note: Game is on official List but 3D has not been confirmed yet. |
Devices | |||
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3RD Space Gaming Vest | |||
Novint Falcon |
Issues fixed
- TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.
FPS drop while zooming in
- Frame rate drop while aiming down sights.
Set low Depth of Field[7] |
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Set Depth of Field option to low without significant visual impact. Additionally you can turn off Ambient Occlusion and FXAA which affect the speed when aiming down sights. |
Mouse Lag
- Significant mouse lag with vsync enabled.
Use Borderless Windowed mode[citation needed] |
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If you're experiencing mouse lag from vertical sync and screen tearing without it, selecting Borderless Windowed mode from the video options menu may solve the issue. |
Error '57475' When Joining Game
Fixing 57475 error[citation needed] |
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Issue with changing Language
Fixing Localization Problem[citation needed] |
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"Error during Intialization: ERROR: sound Bank failed to load cmn_root.Englisch. You have a Build Problem." Solution : Set the language of all three game parts (singleplayer, multiplayer and zombies) to your desired language and wait for Steam to finish downloading. |
Zombies Leaderboard and Campaign Career Record crash
- The game will crash whenever Career Record/Leaderboard (Campaign/Zombies) is accessed if you have more than 60 and less than 100 Steam friends.
Steam Offline mode or Firewall block[8] |
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Set Steam in Offline Mode. You can block "t6sp.exe" for the campaign and/or "t6zm" in your Firewall by creating a blocking rule for incoming and outgoing traffic. Achievements should work, but you won't be able to play online or retrieve leaderboards. |
Change number of friends[9] |
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Delete friends until total number is under 60, or add more friends until total is over 100. |
Unhandled Exception Caught
Verify[10] |
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Highest resolution not showing
Use borderless fullscreen windowed mode[13] |
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Set Catalyst Control Center[14] |
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video, VP8 | Bink Video 1.99g |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Vista SP2, 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHz AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHz |
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System memory (RAM) | 2 GB (32-bit) 4 GB (64-bit) |
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Hard disk drive (HDD) | 16 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 8800GT ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
- Users have the option of installing the campaign (~8.7 GB), multiplayer (~4.5 GB if without DLC), and zombies (~1.0 GB if without DLC) separately.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/202970/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (202970) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Call of Duty Black Ops 2 (PC) | AbleGamers.com
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ SteamDB: Every depot associated with Japanese Retail Product Key
- ↑ SteamDB: Every depot associated with Polish Retail Product Key
- ↑ SteamDB: Every depot associated with Russian Retail Product Key
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjqRTO5exDM
- ↑ Black Ops II Huge FPS Drops While Zooming-In - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)
- ↑ Steam Users' Forums - View Single Post - Game crashes on career record. (retrieved)
- ↑ Game freezes on Zombie Leaderboards. - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)
- ↑ Unhandled Exception Caught - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/202970/discussions/0/882965737372041556/
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/202970/discussions/0/882965737311926725/#p1
- ↑ 1920x1080 resolution :: Call of Duty: Black Ops II General Discussions
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/202970/discussions/0/882965737372041556/#c882965737387565006