Call of Duty: Black Ops II

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Key points

List of known issues on Treyarch website.

Major issue involving retail disc 2 being a Mass Effect 2 disc.

FOV is capped at 80, but may be patched to cap at 90 post-release.

Game supports 7.1 positional audio and there are several sound mixing settings in menu (bass heavy, high heavy, hearing impaired etc.)

General information

Steam Users' Forums

Steam Comunity Discussions

Official forum

Availability

Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a Steamworks title.

Improvements

Skip company logo videos

Instructions

This will disable the game introduction video which is important to the storyline. Do this only after you don't want to see it anymore.

Game data

Configuration location

There are several configuration files in the players folder but only bindings_sp.bdg is unencrypted.

Video settings

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Graphics settings.

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Advanced graphics settings.

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Sound settings.

Highest resolution not showing

Monitor may support 1920x1080, but highest available setting may be 1440x900 or 1680x1050.

Instructions

Issues

Mass Effect 2 disc 2

Users reporting that the disc 2 installation is in fact a Mass Effect 2 disc.

Instructions

FPS drop while zooming in

If you are experiencing framerate drop while using iron sights/scopes set Depth of Field option to low without significant visual impact. Additionally you can turn of Ambient Occlusion and FSAA which are power hungry.

System requirements

Users have the option of installing the campaign (~8.7 GB), multiplayer (~4.5 GB), and zombies (~1.0 GB) separately.