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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood cover
Developers
Techland
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Chrome Engine 4
Release dates
Windows June 30, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 78
IGDB 79
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Shooter, FPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Western
Series Call of Juarez
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood on Wikipedia
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is a singleplayer first-person shooter and FPS game in the Call of Juarez series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
[1]
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Windows
A free demo version is available from Steam: steam://install/33290

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 (2009-09) is the latest patch available

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\CoJ2\Data\Menu\Movies
  2. Delete or rename attract.wmv and Ubisoft_720p.wmv

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Call of Juarez - Bound in Blood\Out\Settings\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Call of Juarez - Bound in Blood\Out\save\<user-id>\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Call of Juarez - Bound in Blood\Out\profiles\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Default vertical FOV is 46°. Use Data0.pak of Realism Mod.
Swapping Data0.pak may prevent loading existing save data.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Force in the graphics driver or see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Use Nvidia Profile Inspector[2]
  1. Select the included Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood profile from the Profiles dropdown menu.
  2. Set the Antialiasing compatibility flag to 0x000012C1

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Enabling Vsync[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Video.scr with a text editor.
  3. Scroll to the bottom and enter VSync().
Alt+Tab disables Vsync for the current session, unless the game is in windowed mode.

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
One key per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller must be enabled in the options menu before use.
Controller remapping
2 presets: for left- and right-handed.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Controller inputs can be used in the keyboard remapping menu

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX, speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Retail only.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
12
Online play
12 The official multiplayer service was shut down on September 24, 2016.[3][4]

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.
Devices
3RD Space Gaming Vest

Issues fixed

Game crashes during the first story cinematic

Switch your audio card to DVD Quality format[citation needed]
  1. Right click the Windows Volume Mixer icon in the taskbar
  2. Select Playback devices
  3. Choose your current playback device in the list
  4. Click Properties
  5. Open Advanced tab
  6. In the drop down make sure that 16 bit, 48000 Hz (DVD Quality) option is selected
  7. Hit OK

Intro and menu videos play upside down and/or are black and white

Apply this fix[citation needed]

Download and install Movies fix

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Max refresh rate is 60 Hz; this does not affect game render FPS, but determines the monitor's refresh rate.
Set refresh rate manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open ideo.scr with a text editor.
  3. Change MaxRefresh(60) to the screen refresh rate.
Possible fix for 60Hz cap[citation needed]
  1. Create a custom resolution using the graphics card's control panel, so that only one resolution with that specific refresh rate exists. For example: on a 1080p monitor, create a desktop resolution of 1920x1079 with a refresh rate of 144 or 240 or 360 (or any value).
  2. Set that specific resolution in the game; since only that specific instance of that specific resolution exists, the game will force a specific refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/21980/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (21980) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References