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Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII

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Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII
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Developers
Treyarch
Raven Software
Windows Beenox
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows October 12, 2018
Reception
Metacritic 83
OpenCritic 84
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter, Battle royale
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Series Call of Duty: Black Ops
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Call of Duty: Black Ops
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

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is a multiplayer first-person action, shooter and battle royale game in the Call of Duty: Black Ops series.

General information

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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Download-only; no disc is included in the physical box.
Windows
Amazon.com
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Battle.net
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Digital Deluxe Edition and Multiplayer/Battle Royale Only also available
Windows
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Standard Edition
Windows
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Digital Deluxe Edition
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Digital Deluxe Edition.
Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
All versions require an Activision account, Battle.net DRM and a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

No microtransactions information; you can edit this page to add it.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit config.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open config.ini.
  3. Find the line play_intro_movies and set the value to 0.
  4. You can also change this option in game on interface settings.
  5. Save your changes.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\players\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Video Settings
Video Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Officially announced.[1]
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+.[2]
4K Ultra HD
Based on the official announcement.
Field of view (FOV)
60 to 120, can be independent from aiming down sights.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, SMAA 1x, Filmic SMAA 1x, SMAA T2x, Filmic SMAA T2x, render resolution up to 200%.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
60 to 300, or unlimited. Separate slider for Menu FPS. For a manual change, see Manual optimizations.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Tritanopia.

Input

In-game Input Settings
In-game Input Settings
In-game Controller Settings
In-game Controller Settings

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, SFX, Voice and Cinematics.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
100 Versus, Co-op
8-10 players in most modes, 8-12 in Chaos TDM, 4 in Zombies, up to 100 in Blackout.[3]
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Dedicated servers for Multiplayer and Blackout. P2P for Zombies mode.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)[4]
TCP 443, 3074
UDP 443, 3074
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

Manual optimizations

All of the following changes are done by changing config.ini in the configuration file location with a text editor.
All manual changes to the settings in the configuration files can be overwritten and changed to defaults. Setting the file to read-only mode after saving changes can prevent this.
Some settings can be duplicated in the folder with the id of the player profile, there they should also be changed.
  • Set the line max_fps with max_fps_menu to a numerical value to change the framerate limiter to a custom value, or 0 to disable it the framerate limit.
  • Set the line auto_cull_radius to 10 for decreasing the draw distance in case of framerate issues.
  • Set the line video_memory to a decimal value between 0 and 1 to set the maximum percentage of VRAM to use (e.g. 0.75 is 75%).
  • Set the line smooth_framerate to 1 to smoothen the framerate.
  • Set the line backbuffer_count to 3 to enable triple buffering.
  • Set the line threaded_rendering to 1 and worker_threads to the number of threads the given computer has.[5]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-4340
AMD FX-6300
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 55 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660/1050
AMD Radeon HD 7950
2 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  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).

References

  1. Official Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 – PC Trailer - last accessed on August 24, 2018
  2. Verified by User:Rose on 2018-09-16
    Made screenshots at 16:9 and 21:9, compared them in Blackout Beta.
  3. Final push: Blackout Beta extended to 12PM PST + 100 player max! - last accessed on September 18, 2018
  4. Configuring Router and Firewall Ports - last accessed on September 17, 2018
  5. Reddit - last accessed on 26 May 2023