================================================================== Medal of Honor Allied Assault(tm) Version 1.0 Read Me File December 13, 2001 ================================================================== Thank you for purchasing Medal of Honor Allied Assault. This readme file contains last minute information that did not make it into the manual, as well as more detailed information on various features already covered in the manual. ================================================================== System Requirements ================================================================== MINIMUM CONFIGURATION Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, or Windows 95 (Windows NT is not supported) 450 MHz Intel Pentium II or 500 MHz AMD Athlon processor 128 MB RAM 8x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive 1.2 GB free hard disk space plus space for saved games (additional space required for Windows swap-file and DirectX 8.0 installation) 16 MB OpenGL capable video card using an NVIDIA GeForce3, NVIDIA GeForce2, NVIDIA GeForce 256, NVIDIA Riva TNT2, NVIDIA Riva TNT, ATI Radeon, ATI Rage 128 Pro, ATI Rage 128, PowerVR3 Kyro II, or PowerVR Kyro chipset with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card Keyboard Mouse RECOMMENDED 700 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor 32 MB or greater supported OpenGL capable video card with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver The following 16MB or greater 3D accelerators are not fully supported and do not work properly with the game: -3Dfx Voodoo 4 and 5 No intro movies play. Various textures are corrupted. Breakable windows are opaque until broken. Once broken they have a corrupted texture. -3Dfx Voodoo 3 Various textures are corrupted. Breakable windows are opaque until broken. Once broken they have a corrupted texture. Transparent red bomb placements are invisible. -3Dfx Voodoo Banshee cards -Matrox G400 and G450 Frame rate is often below 10 frames per second even at the lowest video settings. Level load times are longer than normal. -Nvidia Vanta These older cards yield a frame rate that is often below 10 frames per second even at the lowest video settings. -PowerVR NEON 250 cards: Video Logic PowerVR Neon 250 -S3 Savage 2000 cards: Diamond Viper II -S3 Savage 4 cards: Diamond Stealth III S540 Diamond Stealth III S540 Extreme -SiS 300 cards The following sound card isn't supported: -Ensoniq SoundScape PNP The following sound cards have known problems: -Diamond Monster Sound MX 400 Requires turning off "DirectSound Acceleration" in the driver. See the detailed explanation under "Troubleshooting." -Creative Labs Audigy Currently hardware acceleration for this card does not work correctly. ================================================================== Hard Drive Space ================================================================== 1.2 GB of free hard drive space is required to install the game. More space is also needed for save games. Each save game is nearly 0.5 MB and there are 34 single-player levels in the game. At the start of each level a new auto-save game is created. So another 30 MB of space is a good idea for both auto saves and manually saved games. Additionally, Windows will require its own free hard drive space for its operating system (virtual memory). The amount of space required varies from 100 MB to 250 MB. If you have less than 250 MB free space you may encounter the following message in an error dialog: "Ran out of virtual memory" If you encounter this message, free up some hard drive space. ================================================================== Installing DirectX 8.0a ================================================================== If you declined to install DirectX 8.0a when initially installing Medal of Honor Allied Assault, you can install at a later time by simply inserting Disk 1 into your CD-ROM drive and clicking on the "Install DirectX" link of the Medal of Honor Allied Assault window that appears. If the window doesn't automatically appear, run "Autorun.exe" from within Disk 1. You can also directly run "dxsetup.exe", located in the DirectX directory on the install CDROM. This is found on Disk 1 under the "redist\directx80a" folder. Just double-click on "dxsetup.exe". ================================================================== Improving Gameplay Performance ================================================================== Some machines will benefit from experimenting with your video/sound options: - From the Main Menu choose the "Options" menu signified by some electronic equipment towards the left side on the table. Then select the "Video" menu, select "Texture Detail" and choose "LOW". - Also from the "Video" menu uncheck the "WALL DECALS" check box. This will prevent the game from creating bullet marks on walls and should improve performance. - Try reducing your video resolution to 640x480 or even 512x384 in your "Video" menu. The lower the resolution, the easier it is for your computer to run the game. - From the "Video" menu you can try lowering your color depth from 32 to 16 bit. - Video cards with less than 64MB Video memory cannot set texture detail to high and texture color depth to 32 bit simultaneously. These cards can get very poor performance at times, so lower your texture detail and/or lower your texture depth to 16 bit. - From the "Advanced" menu under the "Options" menu try turning the "SHADOWS" down to "simple" or "none". - In Advanced Video Options you can change your View Model. This allows one to choose how much of their own player model is shown. NONE means player's arm and weapon will not appear. GUN ONLY means the gun and not the arms of Powell will appear. FULL means that you will see both Lt. Powell's hands and the weapon he is holding during gameplay. The less of Lt. Powell that is showing, the faster the game should run. ================================================================== Troubleshooting ================================================================== Safe Mode -Safe mode can be accessed from the "Safe Mode" link in the Medal of Honor Allied Assault section of the "Start" menu. It is provided as a means of isolating the cause of problems you may have with sound or video card drivers. When launching with safe mode, you can disable 3D video accelerator support or hardware support for sound cards in its menu. The default location on the Start Menu is as follows: Start->Program Files->EA GAMES->Medal of Honor Allied Assault-> Safe Mode. DirectX 8.0a -It is highly recommended that you install DirectX 8.0a as this is known to resolve a number of video card and other issues. Previous versions of DirectX are not fully supported. Windows XP -If you are using Windows XP, you must have administrator rights to install and run Medal of Honor Allied Assault. If you have administrator rights, and wish to give a "limited user" administrator rights, you can do this in "Users" section of the Windows XP Control Panel. Video Card Drivers -Some video card drivers do not support OpenGL correctly. Typical problems that may occur with these drivers include: - Crashing on starting up - Crashing when changing video resolutions - Corrupted textures - Garbage artifacts on screen - Unexpected bright flashing on screen - Unusually slow performance. The solution is to go to your video card manufacturer's website and download updated drivers for your card. It is highly recommended that, given an option, you download and install Microsoft-certified (WHQL) drivers. -Video Resolution of 1600x1200 A resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels is not fully supported and has been found to have problems with various video cards. If the game crashes you can run in safe mode and adjust your resolution back to a stable and desirable setting. -Win95 OpenGL Fix Users of Windows 95 and Windows 95a may get a missing dll error. The error message occurs when starting the game on either of these operating systems stating, "Error Starting Program - A required .DLL file, GLU32.dll, was not found." This is a result of the OpenGL runtime libraries for Windows95 not being bundled with the earlier versions of Windows 95. There is an OpenGL v.1.1 patch for Windows 95 available on Disk 2 of Medal of Honor Allied Assault. It is located in the "Win95OpenGLfix" folder and is called "opengl95.exe". Simply run this file from the CD. Once this OpenGL update is installed the game will run fine on Windows 95 and Windows 95a. -Dual Monitors Dual monitors are not supported. Disabling the secondary video card will allow the game to run with dual monitors. Sound Card Drivers -Diamond Monster Sound MX 400 How to fix the MX 400 for use by Medal of Honor Allied Assault: 1) Exit from Medal of Honor Allied Assault if you are running the game. 2) Open up the "Diamond Monster Sound" utility from the toolbar; this is a small red and white icon near the clock. 3) Make sure the "Enable DirectSound Acceleration" checkbox is off. 4) Click on the "Apply And Exit" button. You should be able to run Medal of Honor Allied Assault without a problem. ============================...
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