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- Total Mayhem Version 1.0.1 Patch
-
- NOTE: If you are experiencing NO problems playing Total Mayhem, then this patch will
- only fix a few very minor bugs. You do not need this patch if you are currently playing
- Total Mayhem without problems.
-
- Please note that this patch will only be effective if you have installed Total Mayhem to your
- hard drive. If you wish to retrieve some of your hard drive space, you may wish to delete
- the Video files. These are the files ending with .RPL extension in the directory where you
- installed the game. If you do need to do this, then you will no longer be able to see the
- Video clips. We are planning to release a further patch within a week which will allow the
- game to be installed to the Hard Drive yet play the videos from the CD. This will be a very
- small file and will not affect any saved games or games in progress.
-
- If you do need the patch due to video card problems we suggest you download and use this
- patch and, if you want to run the
- Videos from the CD, download the further patch later.
-
- Files in the Patch
-
- PATCH.TXT
- MISSDESC.001
- MAYHEM.EXE
- LANGUAGE.001
- ENGLISH.CGS
-
- Once you have downloaded the patch
-
- 1.Unzip the files into the directory where you installed your game
- 2.Run the WCONFIG program
- 3.Select Auto Detect Option
- 4.If you still have Video Display problems, see below in the Command Line Options
- section.
-
- What is fixed in version 1.0.1
-
- 1.The Scitech driver tends to autodetect video cards better.
- 2.Adds several command line switches to ensure Video Card/Monitor compatibility:
- NOHSCROLL (This disables any attempt to use Hardware Scrolling)
- USE640X480 (This forces Total Mayhem to use the more common 640x480 video mode,
- we suggest you try this option first)
-
- These switches are automatically used by the game when it can detect that they are needed,
- but you may add them to the
- command line yourself if the game doesn't recognize that they are needed.
-
- To add these switches:
-
- In Windows 3.1x, you need to go to RUN on the File menu, and Browse to find the
- MAYHEM.EXE that you use. Select it, and then physically type at the end of the line the
- switch that you want to use.
-
- In Windows 95, right click and drag the Mayhem icon onto your desktop and select "create
- Shortcut here". Next right
- click on the shortcut and then select the properties tab. Add the switch to the
- MAYHEM.EXE line. (Outside the quotes if
- there are any). Click on Apply and then OK.
-
- 3.Does not enable players in a Multi-player game to use weapons that they are not carrying.
- (If this doesn't make sense to you,
- don't worry about it).
- 4.The objectives for level 10 are in the proper order now, and are clearer.
- 5.The credits for Creat Studio are now inserted correctly.
-
- Known Problems:
-
- On some video cards, such as the Diamond Edge 3D, the game begins with a black screen
- and appears to crash. Just hit the spacebar on this black screen, and the game will play fine.
- This should be fixed by the next patch.
-
- Some video cards do not play the movies. This is being looked into as to exactly what the
- problem is. Hopefully this can be
- fixed by the next patch.
-
- The Flags in multi-player Capture Flag have too few of Hit Points. This is being addressed
- in a future patch.
-
- Eight Player support should be included in the next patch, along with a few new
- multiplayer maps.
-
- If you find that you are experiencing irregularities in the Multi- Player games, make sure
- that everyone is playing off the
- same version of Total Mayhem. The date of the version 1.0.1 .EXE is 5/22/96.
-
- Thanks for your patience.
-