Call of Duty 2

What works

SP and MP both work great with hacks (adding registry key and oss driver emulation).

I posted this over in the Ubuntu Gaming Forum as well.

I used the DVD install version and installed it without a hitch (I am not sure how the CD version would work since that involves multiple CD's).
I then downloaded the 1.3 upgrader and installed that. It installed fine.
I then went online and found a 1.3 no-cd crack for single player.
I opened winecfg and changed the sound driver to OSS and Hardware Acelleration to Emulation and enabled Driver Emulation.
Then I opened the user.reg in ~/.wine folder and put this part in anywhere:
[Software\\Wine\\Direct3D]
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="backbuffer"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
"VideoMemorySize"="256"

That allows Single Player to work correctly. I didn't put that in at first and then first few levels ran and then I hit a Directx error. Once I put that in the user.reg file it worked flawlessly.

I just played online and it worked great. The gameplay was as good or better than in Windows. I think I can finally dump Windows.
The server I normally play on doesn't require Punk Buster so I don't have any issues with that (I have heard Punk Buster doesn't work correctly/at all in Wine).

The only issue I am having and have yet to resolve is sound. I am using the OSS driver as stated above which works a ton better than ALSA (which freezes me up immediately and quits the game). But I get a lag of about 1/2 - 1 second. It is really annoying and I have tried multiple combinations of audio driver settings and nothing gets any better than my above settings.

Anywho it is working good enough and I am so glad the Wine people are constantly making improvements and changes. Thanks Wine team!

What does not

There is a 1/2 - 1 second delay for audio. It is pretty annoying but certainly not a showstoper. I have yet to figure this out. If anyone figures it out, please post it here.

I am not sure if DX9 works. I can set it but I am not sure if it really is using DX9 or DX7. I need to look at my terminal output sometime because someone mentioned it gives an error saying can't use DX9 for some reason.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I can't think of anything I didn't test besides Punk Buster which has been rumored not to work so I didn't even try it.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Fix the audio delay problem and we would be set. That is the only problem I see with this.

If you start the game and the intro videos play but then the screen goes black, you may need to enable S3 texture compression. To do so:

1. Install driconf.
2. In your system's Preferences menu, open 3D Acceleration.
3. Under the Image Quality tab, set Enable S3TC texture compression even if software support is not available to Yes.
4. Run Call of Duty 2. The menu should now work normally.
5. In the game's Options menu under Graphics, set Force DirectX 7 Mode to Yes.