Legendo's The Three Musketeers © 2005 Legendo Entertainment AB, www.legendo.com Revision 1.0, September 14th, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • 1 GHz CPU (Pentium® or AMD), 256 MB RAM, 330 MB free disk space • Windows® 2000/XP • Graphics card* with 8 MB RAM, a sound card* • 16x CD-ROM drive / 4x DVD-DRIVE *Must be compatible with DirectX® 8.1 or newer. SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS Windows® XP Windows® 2000 (While the game can be run on earlier versions of Windows, no support can be provided for these operating systems.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORTED GRAPHICS CARD CHIPSETS The Three Musketeers has been tested to run successfully in HARDWARE MODE on the following chipsets (note that it runs on almost any graphics card in SOFTWARE MODE); ATI Radeon 7000 ATI Radeon 9200 ATI Radeon 9500 ATI Radeon 9600 ATI Radeon 9700 ATI Radeon 9800 ATI Radeon X300 ATI Radeon X600 ATI Radeon X800 ATI Radeon IGP345M ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 ATI Radeon Mobility X700 PCIe Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 (Integrated) Intel® Media Accelerator 900 series (Integrated) NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 NVIDIA GeForce 4000 MX PCi NVIDIA Geforce 4 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 5200 FX NVIDIA GeForce 5900 FX NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6800 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 NOTE ABOUT DRIVERS FOR ATI RADEON MOBILITY CARDS There are many notebook manufacturers who do not provide updated graphics card drivers. If you have a recent ATI Radeon card and can't find any official drivers, try www.omegadrivers.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTX™ DirectX™ 9.0c is included on the game CD. DirectX™ from Microsoft® is part of the Windows operating system used by developers to allow games to take full advantage of your computers hardware. The Three Musketeers requires that DirectX™ 8.1 or a newer version is installed on your computer. For more information on DirectX™, go to www.microsoft.com/directx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERFORMANCE TIPS The LAUNCHER WINDOW appears everytime you run the game. Here you can change many graphical settings that affects the speed and visual quality of the game. SCREEN RESOLUTION Decreasing the screen resolution to 640x480 increases framerate dramatically on older PC hardware. Additional options can be found on the ADVANCED SETTINGS page. You may experiment with these in order to achieve maximum performance and graphical quality. HARDWARE 3D / SOFTWARE 3D For the best game experience, we recommend to run the game in HARDWARE 3D mode. If you have an older PC, HARDWARE 3D mode may not work correcly, in which case you must run the game in SOFTWARE 3D (the game runs on almost any PC in SOFTWARE 3D mode). FULLSCREEN / WINDOWED Running the game in FULLSCREEN mode normally results in the best performance and graphical quality. For widescreen displays (as featured in modern laptop computers), WINDOWED mode is usually preferable to avoid a stretched image. TEXTURE QUALITY Graphics cards with low amounts of RAM may benefit from decreasing the TEXTURE QUALITY. Suggested settings; HIGH QUALITY - graphics cards with 64+ MB RAM MEDIUM QUALITY - graphics cards with 32+ MB RAM LOW QUALITY - graphics cards with 8-32 MB RAM TOON INKING Disabling TOON INKING may dramatically increase speed for certain graphics cards that render anti-aliased (AA) lines very slowly. DYNAMIC SHADOWS This feature is dependant on the speed of your CPU and should be the option of choice to disable in order to increase framerate. Note that most integrated graphic cards do not provide enough fillrate to handle DYNAMIC SHADOWS efficiently. MONITOR V-SYNC This option ensures a tear-free and stable framerate, but may decrease overall performance on older graphics cards. ANISOTROPIC TEXTURE FILTERING If your graphics card supports ANISOTROPIC TEXTURES, enabling this options will make the game look sharper. FULL 32 BIT COLOR In FULLSCREEN mode, the FULL 32 BIT COLOR option provides rich and vivid colors. In WINDOWED MODE, the game uses the colour mode of your Windows desktop. For certain graphic cards, enabling 32 BIT COLOR may be required in order for shadows to display correctly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TROUBLESHOOTING • Always, always, always ensure that you have a minimum of programs running in the background. We recommend you shut down all other applications before running the game (in particular, chat, messenger, and e-mail software may cause problems). • You may also need to disable anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall software (some of these could prevent the game from starting). • Many technical problems can be solved simply by updating your graphics and sound card drivers (drivers are usually available from your hardware manufacturer’s website). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 Legendo Entertainment AB. 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