Call of Duty: World at War

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All extra, downloadable maps are automatically installed with the Steam version at no extra cost

Patches

What Patches You Need:

There was 7 patches with 3 map packs.
You need:

1. 1.2 Patch
2. 1.2 to 1.4 Patch
3. 1.4 to 1.5 Patch
4. 1.5 to 1.6 Patch
5. 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:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\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:

• Yitch 1 CoD WaW Config