YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television READ ME for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 This Read Me file contains answers to frequently asked questions about installing and running YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television. Installing YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television ============================= Before installing YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television, disable all anti-virus software and any TSRs on your computer. To disable your anti-virus software, consult the documentation that came with your anti-virus software. If you interrupt the Installer application during the installation process, it may leave some files on your hard disk. To restart the installation process, please remove these files and run the installer again. WINDOWS COMPATIBILITY ============================= YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television can be played on any 486- or 586-based PC running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. If you are using the Virtual Memory feature in Windows 95 and you are running very low on free disk space, you may experience "Out of Memory" errors in YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television. Check your Virtual Memory settings, free some hard disk space and then restart YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television. If you run SHARE, please disable it before you try to uninstall YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television. You can disable it by commenting out the SHARE line from your autoexec.bat file. You can re-enable SHARE as soon as YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television has been removed from your PC. YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television Performance ============================================= YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television performs best when your video display is set to 256 colors. Some PC hardware may not be fast enough to play the game well in higher color video modes. If you experience sound or video performance problems with YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television, please make sure that neither Microsoft Office Toolbar nor the Norton Navigator Task Bar (or any similar utility) is running when you run YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television. These utilities can negatively affect the performance of many games. Tip: You can temporarily disable most Windows utilities by holding down the Shift key while Windows is loading. These utilities will launch normally the next time you restart Windows. If you still experience sound stuttering, make sure that you have installed the latest drivers for your sound card. Contact the manufacturer of your sound card for more information on the availability of driver updates. Updates can usually be downloaded for free from the World Wide Web or from your manufacturer's own electronic bulletin board. Fine-Tuning the YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television Sound System ====================================================== The YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television sound system can be fine-tuned in Windows 95. If you experience problems after trying the above tips, use the following instructions to tune the YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television sound system: 1. Open the file YDKJ.INI in the 'Stuff' folder. The 'Stuff' folder can be found in the directory where you installed YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television. Simply double-clicking the file should launch the Notepad editor. 2. In the YDKJ.INI file, find the line that reads HighPrioritySoundThread=0 and change it to HighPrioritySoundThread=1. 3. Save YDKJ.INI and quit Notepad. 4. Run YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television again and listen for improvements or changes in sound quality. If you are still experiencing problems, open YDKJ.INI again, and continue with the following steps: 5. Look near the end of YDKJ.INI for the line that says ObservedSoundThreadWakeupError= (where is some value). If the number is less than 150 or greater than 600 then skip ahead to step 7. If is greater than 150 and less than 600, then find the line that says SoundThreadWakeUpError=150 and change it to SoundThreadWakeUpError= where is the same value as in the "ObservedSoundThreadWakeupError=" line. Save YDKJ.INI and quit Notepad. 6. Run YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television again and listen for improvements or changes in sound quality. 7. If you are still experiencing problems, open YDKJ.INI again, as in step 1. Change the line that you changed in step 6 back to its original setting, that is, find SoundThreadWakeUpError= and change it to SoundThreadWakeUpError=150 8. Find the line that says UseThreadedSoundMixer=1 and change it to UseThreadedSoundMixer=0. Save YDKJ.INI and quit Notepad. 9. Run YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Television again and listen for improvements or changes in sound quality. How to Contact Technical Support ======================== U.S. Technical Support Sierra On-Line Technical Support Main: (425) 644-4343 Fax: (425) 644-7697 P.O. Box 85006 Bellevue, WA 98015-8506 Monday-Friday 8:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. PST Online Support: CompuServe: GO SIERRA America Online: Keyword Sierra Internet USA: http://www.sierra.com Toasted! World Wide Web Site: Point your browser to www.berkeleysystems.com for more information about YOU DON'T KNOW JACK or sample YOU DON't KNOW JACK online at www.bezerk.com.