Call of Duty 4 - Information & Discussion Thread

Welcome to my information and discussion thread on the game Call of Duty 4. Here we can discuss tips, tricks, or just have general conversation about the game.

If you think something needs to be edited or you just have something important that should be added, post here or PM me. Thank you.

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Club members

Reminder: Everyone is welcome! The only requirement is to simply own the game 

Submission format: OCN Name | Common In-game name | Xfire | Steam | Do you play promod? | Do you have a mic? | Willing to come on TS3 with us? | Retail, steam, or copy of both?

Yumyums / Yumz / NA / <Yumz> (Link in sig) / Yes / Yes / Yes / Steam

Swift Castiel | cbb.Swifty | ra4nd0mh3r0 | CastielPwnsYou | Yes | Yes | Yes | Retail

Jach11 | (OCN)Jach11 |Jach11 |Yes |Yes |Yes | Both

Ali67219 | Ali67219 | Ali67219 | Ali67219 | yes | yes | yes |steam copy

The Last Narwal | Narwal | thelastnarwal | The Last Narwal | No | Yes | Yes | Retail

n00b hax | n00b hax | partwitheroes | n00b hax | I'd Like To! | Yes | Yes | Steam

jprovido / jprovido / NA / jlimb / No / Yes / Yes / Retail
gatornation240 | Gatorboy/Gatornuggzz | geoff1917 | geoff1917 | no but willing to try | YES | YES | RETAIL/STEAM & HACKED

Ukkooh | J.O.O.P | ukkooh | ukkomowgli | I play promod only | Yes | Yes | Retail

Aznboy1993 | TSwifty13 | flyingazn | TSwifty13 | Yes | Yes | Sure | Both

Dynastyy | Dynasty | No | afisha1021 | Yes | ? | ? | Steam

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Setting up your graphic options

Part 2: General tips to improve your play-style

Part 3: Config_mp editing

Part 4: Tactics / Strategy's

Part 5: Class setup 

Part 6: Skins

Part 7: Demos

Part 8: Binds

Part 9: Common issues and fixes for them

Part 10: Related information, interesting info

Part 11: Videos

Setting up your graphic options

I'm just going to point out the most important of these and why they are how they are. Other options can be tweaked to your preference.

Dual Video Cards: Sounds crazy, but try enabling dual video cards in the COD4 in-game options. For one reason or another, this often smooths out choppy gameplay. Note: do this even if you only have a single card.

Brightness: Higher brightness will help you locate enemy's quicker when they're in darker areas

Sync Every Frame (AKA v-sync): You want this off because it limits your frame rate and will interfere with any FPS cap you set

Shadows: Off. It gets rid of most shadows, like my reasoning with the higher brightness it just helps locate enemy players faster if you can see them more clearly in darker areas. Turning it off will also help you gain a few more FPS. Although some might say that seeing the enemy's shadow could give you extra time to react, so it really depends on the person and whether this is something you might find useful

Depth of field: Having this enabled blurs your peripheral vision when you sight in on your gun. Turn this off otherwise it leaves you less aware of your surroundings when you sight in

General tips to improve your play-style

Reload canceling: 

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Doing this is important, once you're used to it you'll naturally do it. Not only does it help you resume fire quicker but it removes the sound of the character putting the magazine back in the gun since the animation is canceled before that happens. This can help you in SnD as an example since many people have headsets/headphones and will pick up those sounds easily, so being quieter will give you an edge on the competition.

Reloading tip: 

Try not to use every bullet in your clip. if you have 0 rounds in your magazine when you reload the animation takes a second longer because the gun has to be cocked. It might not seem like much but when you're getting shot that second will matter

Airstrikes:

Receiving end; If there's no buildings nearby just try your luck at laying down next to a wall and lean into it. if an Airstrike is on top of you, but your screen isn't shaking, don't move a muscle; you'll survive it 70% of the time, or die in the 3rd pass. (I think this is a minor bug, but doesn't always happen. If you're in vastly open ground, you're going to die. but if you're in semi cover/minor cover, it works a treat)

Sender: As for placing them, I don't find UAV a necessity. The way the spawns work in CoD4 is pretty simple; they're spawning where your team is not, so just place it where your team isn't in large concentration. The main spawn point is on the opposite point of which where your teams is, so by pulling up the bigger map (by pressing ESC) you can easily work out where their spawn is and drop it on there

Credits to Swift Castiel for most of the information on airstrikes 

Strafing: 

While this may sound difficult once you've learned how to do this it will vastly improve your play. It can be used to navigate the map quicker, corner hop, ect..

Prefiring:

This one is important, it will help you gain many more kills then you might have previously by not doing this technique

Config_mp editing

You might ask why would you edit your config? What benefit does it have? Well there's a lot of reasons why and benefits why you would get from doing such a thing. As an example, you can increase the FPS cap since default is only 85. You can widen the FOV, since the default is quite low as well as many other beneficial tweaks.

For this task I recommend getting notepad++ if you don't have it already, it will make this so much easier. After getting notepad++ head over to one of these directory's depending on which copy you have,

Once you've located the config open it with notepad++ then press ctrl + F to start searching for the various things such as; com_maxfps 

Important tweaks I recommend

Optional but helpful

seta cg_drawFPS "0" > "Simple"

seta cg_drawLagometer "0" > "1"

At any time you feel you've messed up, here's a copy of the stock config. This goes into your players folder, inside whichever account's CFG you modified

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Originally Posted by Ryan205 

I dont get any performance increase from changing the settings and i get frame skips even when i set it down to 71

The goal of most of these settings isn't really a performance increase (If you're referring to frame rate that is..?), most are geared towards hit reg depending on which you're looking at. As for the frame skipping I'm guessing you're referring to screen tearing when you increased the frame rate cap? If that's the case then not much you can do besides switch to a digital output such as display port or HDMI. I had the same problem on VGA but switching to disport fixed that