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- 1996 Revolution Software Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Broken Sword is a trademark
- of Revolution Software Ltd. Published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd.
- Virgin is a registered trademark of Virgin Enterprises Ltd. E & O E.
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- This file contains information not available during the printing of the manual.
- Please read the contents before you proceed with the installation.
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- 1. Troubleshooting guide.
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- Broken Sword requires a VESA 1.2 compatible video card with 1MB of VRAM. You
- may need to install software drivers if your hardware is not VESA 1.2
- compatible.
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- If you experience graphic corruption in the top and bottom of the display,
- then you may wish to use the SAFEVIDEO option on the command line. For example,
- type 'SWORD SAFEVIDEO'. This option reduces the quality of the display, but
- fixes the flashing problem for older video cards.
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- If you have a 486 based PC with a Dual Speed CD-ROM, it is highly recommended
- that you select the medium or full install. This will require 155MB of hard
- disk space.
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- If you get graphic corruption during the movie sequences, you may wish to
- install the game again, but select "Low resolution" for displaying sequences.
- If you have already selected "Low resolution", the quality of the sequences
- can be improved with a full install.
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- 2. WINDOWS 95 issues.
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- Broken Sword requires your computer to be set to 256 colour mode or higher.
- Having the windows desktop in 16 colours or less will cause problems with
- DirectDraw.
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- There are two system options which cause problems on some computers. Firstly,
- if you get mouse corruption between screens, or the windows mouse appearing
- occasionally, you may wish to reduce the video hardware acceleration slider
- by a single notch. This can be found from the control panel in
- System|Performance|Graphics. Reducing this slider removes the hardware
- mouse which is causing the problem.
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- Some fast CD-Rom drives cause problems when reading ahead. Set the CD-Rom to
- 'No Read-Ahead' from the control panel in System|File System|CD-ROM.
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- During the installation of DirectX, you may be requested to insert the disk
- labelled 'Direct Draw Drivers' or 'Direct Sound Drivers'. If you do not have
- such a disk then click Browse and then OK. This will install the necessary
- drivers.
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- In memory of Mike Burgess who died in September 1996. Mike's contribution to
- the animation of this game gave us all inspiration. He was a lovely person who
- will be greatly missed.
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