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- MOTORACER FAQ - Mar 17th 1997
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- IMPORTANT!
-
- 1) Before installing or running Moto Racer you must insure that
- your Desktop color palette is set to 'High Color (16 bit)'.
-
- 2) DirectX version 3 has to be installed on your PC (if in the
- future you install another game which installs DirectX version 2
- or 1, it might be necessary to reinstall DirectX 3 to play the
- MotoRacer demo again).
-
- 3) Make sure that there is no CD player running, if so quit any
- Audio CD Player application (CD Player, FlexiCD, etc.).
-
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- T R O U B L E S H O O T I N G
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-
- IF YOU ENCOUNTER THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS:
-
-
- - the game is very slow
-
- 1) If you have an ATI 3D RAGE video board in your PC :
- Launch the game with the command line argument -noPal256 (just
- create a shortcut on the program and add this argument after the
- name of the program file on the target field).
-
- 2) Try a lower screen resolution with F2 (toggle to a windowed
- display mode if the full screen 320x240 screen resolution is not
- available on your system). Change your desktop resolution to
- 640x480 if your video board doesn't have enough memory.
-
- 3) The most recent version of your video board driver can
- increase performance by up to 20%.
-
- 4) The game uses floating point calculation intensively, some
- processors are less efficient in this matter than others.
-
- 5) Choose the lowest sreen resolution, decrease the detail level
- by pressing the '-' key on the numpad, remove the top map
- display by pressing F9.
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-
- - When I turn left I can't do a wheelie or when I do a wheelie I
- can't turn left :
-
- 1) Some keyboards cannot efficiently handle the "Left Arrow key"
- pressed at the same time as some other keys. On the keyboard
- configuration screen, replace the space bar used for the
- wheelie with another key, 'B' for example.
-
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-
- - I can't get the full screen 320x240 screen resolution
-
- 1) You may have to reinstall your video board drivers after
- you've installed DirectX. DirectX sometimes replaces your
- existing drivers with older versions. This can result in the
- inability to display the different resolutions available with
- your video board.
-
- 2) If you have a Matrox Millenium in your PC:
- To take advantage of this screen resolution, get the latest
- version of its drivers and install them AFTER having installed
- DirectX.
-
- 3) Other cases :
- The latest version of your drivers may give access to this
- screen resolution.
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- - I have a 3D accelerator board but the game doesn't seem to use
- it :
-
- 1) Check you've installed DirectX version 3. If your 3D board is
- not supported by DirectX, the game won't take advantage of your
- 3D accelerator.
-
- 2) Check the Direct3D Hardware Acceleration is enabled (launch
- DirectX setup from your Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs /
- DirectX)
-
- 3) If your 3D accelerator board doesn't support textures with
- transparency, the game will run in Software 3D render mode which
- doesn't use Direct3D and consequently doesn't use the hardware
- capabilities of your 3D board.
-
- 4) If your 3D board doesn't handle textured polygons (such as
- the Matrox Millenium for example), the game will run in Software
- 3D render mode. You can force the hardware 3D acceleration by
- using the command line argument -D3D but you'll get no textures
- as the board can't handle them.
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-
- - Black squares are visible around smoke or other objects. The
- shadows of the bikes or the trees are rectangular.
-
- 1) Your 3D accelerator board can't display polygons with
- transparency, but makes the program think it can. You can launch
- the game with the command line argument -noD3D to fix this
- problem. However you won't take advantage of your hardware 3D
- acceleration.
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- - The screen remains black after having changed the screen
- resolution while in full screen mode.
-
- 1) Your video board driver may not properly handle the given
- screen resolution. Switch to a windowed display mode by pressing
- ALT + ENTER or switch to another screen resolution by pressing
- F3 or F2 once more.
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-
-
- - the game doesn't work or the game freezes :
-
- 1) If the game seems to have crashed while in full screen mode,
- the program might have opened a Dialog Box not visible on this
- screen. Try to close the box by pressing ESC or ENTER. You can
- try to switch to windowed display mode too by pressing ALT +
- ENTER.
-
- 2) The game runs in full screen mode by default. You can force
- it to a windowed mode with the command line argument -windowed.
-
- 3) You can turn the sound OFF with the command line argument -
- nosound
-
- 4) You can turn the hardware 3D acceleration OFF (if you have
- such a board) by adding the command line argument -noD3D
-
- 5) If you have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound board, you'll need
- its latest drivers (the version which works properly with
- program intensively using floating point calculation).
-
- 6) If you have a Pentium with MMX technology, you can disable
- the MMX usage with the command line argument -noMMX
-
- 7) You can turn the type of processor detection OFF with the
- command line argument -noCpuDetect
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-
- - I have no sound :
-
- 1) Check your Loud speakers are correctly connected to your
- sound board.
-
- 2) Check your sound board drivers are correctly installed.
-
- 3) Increase the volume of your sound device by using the '/' and
- '*' keys of the numpad.
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-
- - The command line argument are not taken in account :
-
- 1) You must leave a blank space between subsequent parameters
- and respect the case.
-
- For example, if you have a 3D accelerator board and you want to
- make the game run in software 3D render mode, you must create a
- shortcut with a line in the target field such as:
-
- "C:\Program Files\MotoRacer\Moto.exe" -noD3D
- (the path can be different)
-
- If you want to disable the sound effects too :
-
- "C:\Program Files\MotoRacer\Moto.exe" -noD3D -nosound
- (respect the case for each parameter)
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-
- - Where could I find the latest drivers for a given video board
- or sound board ?
-
- 1) On Internet.
-
- 2) On the BBS of the board manufacturer (if available).
-
- 3) By contacting your computer shop.
-
- 4) Directly from your computer manufacturer.
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