Call of Duty: United Offensive

Call Of Duty: United Offensive is an expansion pack for Call Of Duty released on September 14, 2004 and adds three new single player campaigns and expanded multiplayer capabilities and associated maps.

The installation of Call Of Duty: United Offensive should be easier that that of Call of Duty since I could swap out discs. And I say "should" because there's no way to install it since it depends on the un-installable Call of Duty.

Where this all gets fsck'd is that the installer will prompt you for CD2, you can eject CD1 and then successfully mount CD2 as the installer proceeds normally. However, you are then prompted to insert CD1 for a second time. This procedure is part of the stupid Copy Protection scheme where the installer creates the Windows Registry entries, so you can't really skip it, and for whatever reason, Crossover can't accommodate this final swap.

It should be possible to copy both CDs to a directory named "COD" and use the crossover option to treat the directory as the installation media, but that also fails to work.

It should be possible to create a single install DVD from the two CDs, so look here for that. I have not yet attempted this and will post more when I do.

Widescreen Hack, Steam version using this file:

E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty\uo\uoconfig.cfg

seta cg_fov "96.4183" (Changes FOV from default of 80.)

seta r_mode "-1" (Allows custom resolutions to work.)

seta r_customheight "1080" (Enter your own "Y Axis" resolution.)

seta r_customwidth "1920" (Enter your own "X Axis" resolution.)

seta com_introplayed "1" (Skips intros. Otherwise, you'll hear sound only.)

RESOURCES

COD:United Offensive at Wikipedia

COD:UO Mods

Call of Duty: United Offensive - All Saves

Find the directory where you installed the game:

. ../Call of Duty/uo/save

then extract the contents of the archive there.

COD:UO Steam Forums

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