TROUBLESHOOTING

This section deals with frequently asked questions and answers and other things that will help you if you are having a problem playing HoB.

PLEASE READ THESE FIRST IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. IF THEY DON'T SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM, THEN POST IN THE BUGS & TROUBLESHOOTING FORUM AT THE HEAT OF BATTLE WEBSITE. ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF CALL OF DUTY INSTALLED.

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Q: WHERE DO I INSTALL HEAT OF BATTLE TO?
A:
You install it into ...Call of Duty\hobv3. DO NOT install it into your Call of Duty\main folder or any other folder. IT MUST be in Call of Duty\hobv3 or else you will have all kinds of problems. If you have the Call of Duty Game of the Year Edition, you must install CoD itself into ...\Call of Duty. If you've installed it into a folder called ...\Call of Duty Game of the Year Edition, there will be a lot of conflicts.

Q: HOW DO I ATTACH/DETACH THE BAYONET TO THE SVT40?
A:
Press your Fire Rate key; the key that changes weapons from full-auto to semi-auto.

Q: WHENEVER I TRY TO PLAY HEAT OF BATTLE I GET THIS ERROR: "Missing WeaponFile g43_mp.cfg Error."
A:
Make sure you've installed Heat of Battle to ...Call of Duty\hobv3.

Q: WHEN I GET SHOT I GET A REALLY LOW FRAME RATE, OR MY GAME FREEZES FOR A COUPLE OF SECONDS!
A: This happens to a rare group of gamers. This is a graphics card/driver conflict. If you have an nVidia card that is pre-GeForce4 (including GeForce4MX's), you should be using driver version 52.16, which you can get at http://www.nvidia.com. This driver has fixed the shellshock lag for many players. If you have an ATI card, your best bet is to check the forums and ask what others have done.

Q: I HAVE MY CROSSHAIRS TURNED ON BUT I DON'T SEE ANY IN-GAME.
A: Crosshairs are disabled in Heat of Battle, even if you have them turned on in the options they still won't show up in Heat of Battle games.

Q: WHY DO MY GRAPHICS SETTINGS RESET WHENEVER I JOIN A HEAT OF BATTLE GAME?
A:
This is a Call of Duty problem, what you want to do is start CoDMP.exe, set up your controls, graphics settings, etc. Save and exit. This will save your settings and use them when you start a mod.

Q: WHEN I CONNECT TO A SERVER IT SAYS "MAP NOT FOUND" AND TRIES TO DOWNLOAD IT.
A: Bring down your console and type "/cl_allowdownload 0" without quotes. Try again, if you still get the error you may actually need the map. Swing by http://www.heatofbattle.net and you should find it.

Q: WILL I STILL BE ABLE TO PLAY REGULAR COD MULTIPLAYER AFTER I INSTALL HOB?
A: Yes. Singleplayer and Multiplayer will work like they always have.

Q: WHEN I CONNECT TO A SERVER IT SAYS "INVALID .PK3's REFERENCED" or "IMPURE CLIENT DETECTED".
A: This can happen if you've altered any files in your HoB pk3's and are trying to join a pure server.

Q: WHEN I CONNECT TO A SERVER IT SAYS "CD KEY IS NOT VALID".
A: This problem was fixed with CoD v1.2. If you are getting it, update to CoD v1.4

Q: WHY DO I RUN AT THE SAME SPEED EVEN IF I HAVE MY PISTOL OR GRENADE OUT?
A:
Pistol and grenade run speeds have been lowered so that you don't see a significant speed boost by switching to them.

Q: DOES PUNKBUSTER WORK WITH HEAT OF BATTLE?
A:
Yes.


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