home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- ACTUA SOCCER - READ.ME
- ======================
-
- Getting Started
- ===============
- If you have any problems getting Actua Soccer running on your
- machine check the following.
-
- 1.) Do you have enough memory available to run the game? Actua Soccer
- needs a minimum of 4 Meg of memory (8Meg for commentary).
-
- 2.) Make sure that you do not have SMARTDRIVE activated.
- 3.) Have you configured your soundcard correctly?
- 4.) Do you have a mouse driver installed? If NO then install one and
- try again.
- 5.) You may under certain circumstances, experience problems
- when running Actua Soccer with UNIVBE. If you do experience any
- problems then simply remove UNIVBE from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- and run the game in lo-res.
-
- HI-RES/LO-RES MODES
- =================
- If you have SVGA capabilities on your machine, then you will be
- able to view both the Main Menus and game in glorious Hi-res.
- If however you find when running the game that you cannot enter
- the hi-res it means that you do not have SVGA capabilities. If you
- contact you video card supplier they should be able to supply
- you with a driver.
-
- Sound/Commentary
- ================
- The Actua Soccer commentary system uses a method of pulling each
- commentary sample off the CD or hard drive. For obvious reasons
- loading the sample off the CD Drive takes longer than from a
- hard disk drive. On the minimum install option you may experience
- a slight pause everytime the game looks for a different sample.
- This is because the Minimum install option requires the game to
- load every sample from the CD. The Medium and Maximum install
- options copy more samples to the hard drive and therefore will
- remove the pause.
-
- Network Game
- ============
-
- Please note that during a network game occasionally under certain
- circumstances one or more players may experience synchronisation
- problems manifesting itself in inconsistent game results across
- the networked machines.
-
- In the event this happens please check for presence of one of the
- Pentium (TM) processors with the known floating point fault. You
- can do this by running a program called 'PROCESS' included on this
- disc. If the result is 'TYPE A' then you have one of these faulty
- processors.
-
- We suggest you contact your PC supplier as Intel have a replacement
- policy.
-
- If all the network machines use the faulty processor then the game
- should not suffer from this problem.
-
-
- Look out for serial/ modem link upgrade.
-
- Known Problems
- ==============
-
- There is a known problem with the Cirrus Logic 5429 Video Card. In
- rare cases the opening animation can corrupt in high resolution.
- This can be ignored and the rest of the game will function correctly.
- This problem does not occur on the rest of the 54xx series.
-