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- Microsoft Fighter Ace II Readme and Driver ListFIGHTER ACE II README AND DRIVER
- LIST
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- Driver List
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- I. Fighter Ace II Readme
-
- Fighter Ace II welcomes you to the best in online air combat.
-
- Please read the following notes and information on this release of Fighter Ace
- II. This information will explain late breaking issues that are not available
- within the Fighter Ace II in-game help.
-
- Contents:
- 1) Setup and installed files
- 2) Hardware Requirements
- 3) D3d and Graphics information
- 4) Content Issues
- 5) Flight information
- 6) Control Issues
- 7) In-game help information
- 8) Replay issues
- 9) Training Mission information
- 10) Command Listing
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- 1) Setup and installed files.
-
- A) Clean installation
- Please ensure that any beta, or incomplete versions of Fighter Ace II are
- removed completely before running the setup. Fighter Ace should be removed using
- the main Fighter Ace program uninstall button. Fighter Ace II can also be
- removed from the control panel Add\Remove. If removing Fighter Ace, the choice
- is offered to save your films and screenshots, remember to select if you want to
- remove these items also.
-
- B) Readme Files
- This readme is available directly from the initial setup. It is also available
- at any time from the windows Start Menu under Program files, Microsoft Games,
- Fighter Ace II.
- The Readme is also available as a text file, Readme.txt, to print or view with
- any text editor. This file is available from the root directory that you
- installed the game to.
-
- C) Command Listing
- For your convenience, Fighter Ace II has installed a default command key listing
- for the game controls. This listing is also available from the root directory
- that the game was installed to.
- The file is called Command.Doc and it is a Microsoft Word file.
-
- D) Uninstalling Fighter Ace II
- Fighter Ace should be removed using the main Fighter Ace program uninstall
- button. Fighter Ace II can also be removed from the control panel Add\Remove. If
- removing Fighter Ace, the choice is offered to save your films and screenshots,
- remember to select if you want to remove these items also.
-
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- 2) Hardware Requirements.
-
- Fighter Ace II recommended configuration
-
- ╖ Multimedia PC with PII 300 MHz or higher, or comparable processor(see below).
- ╖ Microsoft Windows 98 OS.
- ╖ DirectX 6.1 or higher.
- ╖ Microsoft Direct 3D version 6.1compatible Graphics Accelerator card with, with
- 16mb Video RAM.
- ╖ 64 MB System RAM or higher
- ╖ 100 MB of available hard disk space.
- ╖ VGA monitor supporting 16-bit color and resolutions up to 1024 X 768.
- ╖ 28.8 Kbps or greater Internet access.
- ╖ Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, AOL 3.0 or higher, MSN 2.0 or higher, or
- Netscape 4.x.
- ╖ Mouse or compatible pointing device.
- ╖ Force Feedback peripherals compatible to DirectX 6.1
- ╖ DirectX 6.1 compatible sound card with speakers.
-
- Fighter Ace II Minimum Requirements
-
- ╖ Multimedia PC with Pentium 200Mhz or compatible processor.
- ╖ Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98.
- ╖ DirectX 6.1 or higher.
- ╖ Super VGA (800X600) video card supporting 16-bit color.
- ╖ 32 MB RAM or higher
- ╖ 100 MB of available hard disk space.
- ╖ Super VGA (800X600) monitor.
- ╖ 28.8 Kbps Internet access.
- ╖ Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, AOL 3.0 or higher, MSN 2.0 or higher, or
- Netscape 4.x.
- ╖ Mouse or compatible pointing device.
-
- Comparable processor limitations:
-
- At this time, Fighter Ace II will not run on Cyrix systems. This will be
- corrected in subsequent releases.
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- 3) D3d and Graphics issues and information.
-
- Where there are known support issues, we have listed them here. As a rule, if
- the game will not run under D3d or Glide, software is nearly always supported.
-
- IMPORTANT: For the best game experience, Fighter Ace II requires you have the
- latest drivers installed for your hardware. Many of the issues listed in this
- section will be resolved if you install your video card's latest drivers.
- For a list of the most common driver sites, please see our driver section in
- this Readme.
-
- A) Diamond Video Cards:
-
- Issue: With Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, the game crashes to the desktop after the
- profiler finishes running.
- Suggestion: This issue is fixed with the latest drivers. Install the latest
- drivers.
- If the problem persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Running on Diamond Viper V330 with the latest drivers, the fatal error
- "Can't set video mode 640x480x16" may occur.
- Suggestion: This issue is fixed using the retail drivers supplied with the card.
- Install the retail drivers.
- If the problem persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Diamond Viper V770 and Voodoo 2 combination will result in textures not
- being drawn when running in D3d.
- Suggestion: This problem can be solved by restarting the machine, the textures
- will then be drawn correctly.
- In addition, using the reference driver from NVidia will also fix this problem.
- If the problem persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Diamond Viper V330 launching in D3d mode will hang at the Loading Screen.
- Suggestion: Should this behavior occur, the latest drivers from Diamond fix this
- problem. If the problem persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Diamond Monster Fusion (banshee) In Glide, alt-tabbing causes hard system
- hang
- Suggestion: Glide drivers do not support this behavior, please contact your
- hardware manufacturer and to avoid this, please do not Alt-tab.
-
- Issue: DirectDraw unable to set cooperative level error on Diamond Viper 770.
- Suggestion: This condition can sometimes occur if the hardware acceleration
- graphics slider is not set to full. Restoring this slider to full will prevent
- this condition.
-
- Issue: No direct draw hardware error with Diamond Speedstar A50 (SiS 6326AGP)
- Suggestion: This card is not supported by Fighter Ace II.
-
- Issue: Diamond Monster 3D. black border around land blocks on the terrain.
- Suggestion: Latest driver from Diamond fixes this problem. If the problem
- persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- B) Hercules Video Cards:
-
- Issue: Task switching while in software mode on the Hercules Stingray 128/3D
- causes machine to hang. This will happen using drivers for this card that are
- later then 4.03.2039.
- Suggestion: While running Fighter Ace under this card, refrain from using the
- ALT-TAB to switch tasks. Exit the game first.
-
- Issue: Dark lines may appear around terrain blocks while running in D3d under
- the Hercules Stingray 128/3D.
- Suggestion: Upgrading to the latest drivers may help with this issue. If the
- problem persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Task switching while running on Hercules Terminator Beast causes screen
- corruption and color distortion.
- Suggestion: The latest drivers from Hercules fix the problem. Install the latest
- drivers. If the problem persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- C) STB Velocity
-
- Issue: On the STB Velocity 128 with the Riva 128 zx chip, in some instances the
- cockpits will become transparent and see-through.
- Suggestion: This is solved by using NVidia reference drivers v 3.37. If the
- problem persists; please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: The full screen instruments are not sharp and clear on the STB Velocity
- 128 ZX with the Riva 128 ZX chipset.
- Suggestion: This is solved by using NVidia reference drivers v 3.37. If the
- problem persists; please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Poor performance & pixilated effects with STB Nitro Mpact2 3DVD.
- Suggestion: Under these cards, running software will produce better performance.
-
- D) 3DfX, Glide
-
- Issue: 3dfx Velocity 100. Glide button is active, but Glide does not work with
- this card, in game all textures (plane, ground) is transparent blue. An alt-tab
- will cause the client to shut down without an error message.
- Suggestion: Glide is not supported is not supported on this card by Fighter Ace
- II.
-
- Issue: V2 1000 PCI: When running in Glide Alt-Tab does not function to return to
- the desktop.
- Suggestion: Do not use the Alt-Tab functionality under Glide for these cards.
-
- Issue: Voodoo 3 3000. Using D3D mode and any available resolution, using Alt-Tab
- to return to the desktop and then back again into the game will crash the
- client.
- Suggestion: The latest drivers from 3dfxcorrect these problems.
-
- Issue: Task switching from flight with Voodoo 1 or 2 causes black desktop. When
- alt-tabbing out of Fighter Ace in Glide on a Voodoo 1 or 2, a black screen will
- be displayed instead of the Windows desktop.
- Suggestion: The user may Alt-Tab back into Fighter Ace and continue to fly as
- normal.
-
- Issue: Disabling Voodoo2 card in Device Manager creates hard hang when client is
- run.
- Suggestion: Rename the file glide2x.dll to glide2x1.dll. If the problem
- persists; please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Voodoo2. Switching between D3D and Glide causes client to hang.
- Suggestion: Please exit Fighter Ace completely before switching between D3d and
- Glide. The problem will then not occur.
-
- Issue: Voodoo2. While running under glide, colliding with another online player
- while in padlock mode may cause the game to hang.
- Suggestion: Running the game in D3d will not cause this problem.
-
- Issue: If you receive a "GlidelnitEnvironment: Glide 2x.ddl expected Voodoo
- Graphics, none detected" error, you may have had a Voodoo2 card installed and
- then removed it but did not uninstall the Voodoo2 software properly.
- Suggestion Renaming the file (glide2x.dll) in the c:\windows\system folder, will
- eliminate this error
-
- E) ATI/Rage 128
-
- Issue: Rage 128. The horizon has different shades of blue bands stretched across
- it.
- Suggestion: Updating the drivers for this card fixes the problem. If the problem
- persists, please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- F) General Graphics Issues
-
- The fast-paced and graphically-rich environment of FA II places more demands on
- your PC hardware.
- If you are experiencing "lag" (as it is frequently referred to), in reality it
- may actually be bad frame-rate (how fast your computer "draws" each frame) that
- you are seeing.
- If the whole game seems jumpy, even offline, then this is likely the cause of
- your "lag"
- To help reduce or eliminate this effect, here are some graphics "tune-up tips"
- that might make the game much more fly-able for you.
- Try doing the following, under Settings in the game:
-
- 1) Set screen resolution in the game to 640x480
- 2) Use D3D mode instead of Software
- 3) Set smoke length slider to Minimum
- 4) Set terrain details slider to medium or less
- 5) Un-check the "propeller visible from cockpit" box
- 6) Un-check the "Ground Object Textures" box
-
- Also, to ensure best stability & performance, please make sure you have
- downloaded and installed the latest drivers for your video card.
- We've provided a list of video card manufacturers and their websites, at the
- bottom of this document. Please see if using the latest drivers for your video
- card and the performance tips above help improve your control and experience in
- the game.
-
- Issue: Running on NVidia TNT chipset, when an explosion occurs, the complete
- tile lights up.
- Suggestion: This effect can be fixed with the latest drivers from NVidia. If
- problems persist; please contact your manufacturer.
-
- Issue: For some users, when the game is launched in D3D the first time on a PC
- with a RIVA TNT or a RIVA TNT2, there are no ground or plane textures visible -
- everything is white.
- Suggestion: After flying once, exit the game, re-boot the PC and then restart
- the game. All the textures will now appear correctly.
-
- Issue: S3 Virge/GX cards will run FAII in hardware mode. This card set does not
- support alpha blending and bilinear filtering correctly.
- Suggestion: Under this hardware, run Fighter Ace in software mode. If problems
- persist; please contact your manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Matrox G-400 not selectable as a D3D device using retail drivers.
- Suggestion: The latest drivers from Matrox fix this problem. If the problem
- persists; please contact your hardware manufacturer.
-
- Issue: Using Banshee Chipset (Diamond Monster Fusion) while running D3D, the
- ground texture is very pixilated.
- Suggestion: Running Glide, this condition will not occur to the same extent.
-
- Issue: Under the Intel740 (Real Starfighter 3D) switching to a lower or higher
- resolution and re-entering game causes a hang at Loading screen.
- Suggestion: The game will run fine under D3d on this card, but users will have
- to completely exit to the desktop and re-enter the game to change resolutions.
-
- Issue: If the desktop resolution is set to 256 colors, the initial splash screen
- for Fighter Ace will appear washed out and badly palletized.
- Suggestion: This is fixed when the color depth of the desktop is increased to
- more than 256 colors.
-
- Issue: Terrain details can only be turned off by using Shift-F8 in game. This
- can only be done in game using the Shift-F8 key combo. There is no menu UI item
- for this control.
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- 4) Content Issues.
-
- Issue: Clouds and Sky.
- Under D3d, distant cloud is visible in the sky. This is not available for
- software users.
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- 5) Flight information.
-
- Issue: If you have a plane padlocked, and you fly out of padlock range, padlock
- continues to keep tracking that plane until you hit any of the padlock keys.
- Suggestion, use the next enemy keys to cycle to the next enemy plane ('e' ','
- '.' 'Alt-V')
-
- Issue: If the player switches to full screen view after ejecting from the plane,
- but before opening the parachute, the parachute won't open. Suggestion: Pressing
- F7 will switch the user to the outside camera view, the parachute can then be
- safely deployed.
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- 6) Control Issues.
-
- Issue: The view hat on the CH Force F/X fails to change views.
- Suggestion: If the user has the Force F/X plugged into the CH Pro Throttle, they
- can program the hat to any keystroke that would operate the views in the game.
-
- Issue: Thrustmaster input devices may not work under Direct X 7.0.
- Suggestion: Upgrading to DirectX 7.0a will fix this situation.
-
- Issue: Some users may experience performance drops when receiving forces from
- gun fire hits or explosions in rapid succession.
- Suggestion: Disable Force Feedback effects from the settings Menu.
-
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- 7) In-Game Help issues.
-
- Issue: No help topic for right click. In the menu shell, help can be activated
- using right mouse click on most controls within each screen. Some controls do
- not have an associated help topic.
-
- Issue: Under Software, the in-game help window is palletized with a washed out
- color. This occurrence is due to a palette loading issue.
-
- Issue: Running under Glide, no in-flight help is available using Alt+F1.
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- 8) Replay issues.
-
- Issue: Fighter Ace 1.5 film files will not play in Fighter Ace II.
-
- Issue: Film files recorded in Fighter Ace II will not play in Fighter Ace 1.5
-
- Issue: There are certain game objects that will not appear in replay files.
-
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- 9) Training.
- Issue: After running the 1st training mission, if the user selects Custom
- Flight, the enemy aircraft from the 1st training mission will appear in this
- flight.
-
- Suggestion: This is solved by selecting any other training mission, and then
- selecting the Custom Flight.
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-
- 10) Command Listing.
-
- There is a command listing that is installed on the FAII root. This is a
- printable word document that contains the all of the keyboard commands for use
- with this beta version. It is here for convenience and no claims are made to its
- accuracy.
-
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- II. Fighter Ace II Driver List
-
-
- The following 3D video adapters are supported by Fighter Ace II.
- Chip setVideo adapter manufacturerVideo adapter modelManufacturer's Web
- site
- 128/3D SeriesHercules (Guillemot)Hercules Stingray 128
- 3Dhttp://www.hercules.com
- ATI Rage ProATIATI 3D Rage Prohttp://www.atitech.com
- ATI Rage 128ATIATI Rage 128http://www.atitech.com
- ATI Rage 128ATIATI Rage Furyhttp://www.atitech.com
- ATI Rage II+ATIATI 3D Rage II+http://www.atitech.com
- ATI Rage ProATIATI 3D Rage Prohttp://www.atitech.com
- Intel i740Real3DReal 3D Starfighterhttp://www.real3d.com
- MGA G200MatroxMatrox Productiva G-200http://www.matrox.com
- MGA G-400MatroxMatrox Millennium G-400http://www.matrox.com
- nVidia Riva 128STBSTB Velocity 128http://www.stb.com
- nVidia Riva 128 (AGP)ASUSASUS 3DexPlorer 3000http://www.asus.com
- nVidia Riva 128 (AGP)STBSTB Velocity 128http://www.stb.com
- nVidia Riva 128 (AGP)DiamondDiamond Viper V330http://www.diamondmm.com
- nVidia Riva 128 (PCI)DiamondDiamond Viper V330http://www.diamondmm.com
- nVidia Riva TNTSTBSTB Velocity 4400http://www.stb.com
- nVidia Riva TnTDiamondDiamond Viper V550http://www.diamondmm.com
- nVidia Riva TnTCreativeCreative Blaster Riva
- TnThttp://www.americas.creative.com
- Nvidia TnTSTBSTB Velocity 4400 w/TV Outhttp://www.stb.com
- Nvidia TnT2ElsaElsa Erazor IIIhttp://www.elsa.de
- Nvidia TnT2DiamondDiamond Viper V770http://www.diamondmm.com
- Nvidia TnT2GuillemotMaxi Gamer Xentorhttp://www.guillemot.com
- Nvidia TnT2CreativeCreative 3D Blaster TnT
- Ultrahttp://www.americas.creative.com
- nVidia ZX (NV3T)STBSTB Velocity 128 ZXhttp://www.stb.com
- Rage 128 (AGP)ATIATI Rage 128 GL AGPhttp://www.atitech.com
- Rage Pro(AGP)ATIATI Rage Pro (AGP integrated)http://www.atitech.com
- Rage Pro(AGP)ATIATI Rage Prohttp://www.atitech.com
- Riva 128 (AGP)STBSTB Velocity 128http://www.stb.com
- S3 SavageHerculesHercules Terminator Beasthttp://www.hercules.com
- S3 Savage4DiamondDiamond Stealth III S540http://www.diamondmm.com
- S3 Savage4Creative3D Blaster Savage4 (AGP)http://www.americas.creative.com
- S3 Savage4Creative3D Blaster Savage4 (PCI)http://www.americas.creative.com
- 3DFx Velocity3Dfx Interactive3Dfx Velocity 100http://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Verite 2100DiamondDiamond Stealth II S220http://www.diamondmm.com
- Voodoo Banshee3Dfx InteractiveVoodoo Bansheehttp://www.3dfxgamers.com
- 3dfx VoodooDiamondDiamond Monster 3Dhttp://www.diamondmm.com
- 3dfx Voodoo3Dfx InteractiveVoodoo Rushhttp://www.3dfxgamers.com
- 3Dfx Voodoo2CanopusCanopus Pure 3D IIhttp://www.canopuscorp.com
- 3DFx Voodoo2CreativeCreative 3D Blaster
- Voodoo2http://www.americas.creative.com
- 3DFx Voodoo2DiamondDiamond Monster 3D IIhttp://www.diamondmm.com
- 3DFx Voodoo2DiamondDiamond Monster 3D II (SLI)http://www.diamondmm.com
- 3DFx Voodoo23Dfx Interactive3DFx Voodoo3 2000http://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Voodoo33Dfx Interactive3DFx Voodoo 3 2000 PCIhttp://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Voodoo33Dfx Interactive3DFx Voodoo 3 2000 AGPhttp://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Voodoo33Dfx Interactive3DFx Voodoo3 3000http://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Voodoo33Dfx Interactive3DFx Voodoo3 2000http://www.3dfxgamers.com
- 3Dfx Voodoo33Dfx Interactive3Dfx Voodoo3 3000
- (AGP)http://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Voodoo33Dfx Interactive3DFx Voodoo 3 3500http://www.3dfxgamers.com
- Voodoo BansheeDiamondDiamond Monster Fusionhttp://www.diamondmm.com
- Voodoo BansheeGuillemotMaxi Gamer Phoenix AGPhttp://www.guillemot.com
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