Shivers - Harvest of Souls Demo 3/6/97 Version 1.0 Thank you for trying the Shivers - Harvest of Souls demo. If you enjoy the demo and would like to purchase the full version of this product, you can contact our Direct Sales department, or see your local software vendor. Sierra On-Line Direct Sales: Phone: 1-800-757-7707 Internet: www.sierra.com Minimum Requirements: 486/66 12 MB RAM Windows 3.1 or higher 640x480 with 256 colors Mouse 2x CD-ROM WIN compatible soundcard, DAC required Recommended: Pentium 16 MB RAM Windows '95 4x CD-ROM Soundcard Installation: To install the Shivers Demo, double-click the INSTALL.BAT file that is located in the same directory as this readme file. The files will be put in the \sierra\shiv2dem directory. Now, right-click and drag the "Shiv2Dmo" icon onto your desktop out of the shiv2dem directory and choose "Copy here." Double-click on this icon to start the demo. NOTE: If your hard drive is any letter other than C:, you will need to substitute that letter for C: in the Startup and Target properties of your "Shiv2Dmo" icon. Here's how: 1. Right-click on the "Shiv2Dmo" icon 2. Select properties from the bottom of the resulting menu 3. Select the Shortcut tab at the top 4. In the Target area, change the drive letter in two places: a. Once for the "rshivers.exe" path b. Also for the "resource.win" path 5. In the Start in area, change the drive letter for the path 6. Select OK How to Play: The Shivers demo contains 360 degree panoramas in which you can use your mouse or arrow keys to look around. You can get close-ups by clicking on certain objects. To quit, press the Esc key. Options: There are several options in this demo that you can toggle on and off. 1. Press the F2 key to change the resolution of the screen. You can press it four times for a total of four different resolutions. 2. Press the F3 key to turn the caption option on. Press it again to turn it off. 3. Press the F4 key to turn the "hot" cursor off. The "hot" cursor indicates what you can click on. Press it again to turn it on. 4. Press the F5 key to reduce the movie screen. Press it again to return to the original size. Performance Tuning If the game is not quite running smoothly, there are several ways you can improve your performance on your system. The first two deal with the "Options" listed above, the third fine tunes your audio by eliminating stuttering sounds. PANORAMA 1) If, while looking around in a panoramic scene, you are experiencing slow refresh rates, you can use the F2 key to toggle to a smaller resolution. Once at the smallest resolution, pressing F2 will return the screen to the largest resolution. MOVIE 2) If you are experiencing poor performance while viewing the movie clip, you may use the F5 key to toggle to a half-screen sized movie. This should vastly improve your viewing capabilities. SOUNDS 3) If you are experiencing stuttering sounds throughout the game, you should return to the main title screen and click in the upper left hand corner. This will display a dialog box that will ask you to click Yes or No regarding the quality of sounds that you are hearing. Upon closing of the dialog box, you are required to shut down the game and restart it. Continue this exercise until you do not hear stuttering sounds. Note: You should only do this if you are experiencing stuttering or skipping sounds, as side effects (such as latency sounds) may occur. SIERRA ON-LINE, INC. DOES NOT WARRANTY OR PROMISE THAT THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL WORK WITH ANY OR ALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS. SIERRA DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LIABILITY, EITHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL, FOR THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN, INCLUDING ANY AND ALL DAMAGE TO OR LOST USE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS, LOSS OF WARRANTIES, OR LOST DATA BY THE CUSTOMER OR ANY THIRD PARTY. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY SIERRA, IT'S EMPLOYEES, DISTRIBUTORS, DEALER OR AGENTS SHALL CHANGE THE RESTRICTION OF LIABILITY OR CREATE ANY NEW WARRANTIES. IN NO CASE SHALL SIERRA'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE OF THE SIERRA SOFTWARE PRODUCT.