MOTORACER FAQ - Mar 17th 1997 ________________________________________________________________ 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.). ________________________________________________________________ T R O U B L E S H O O T I N G ============================= 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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 ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ - 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) ________________________________________________________________ - 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. ________________________________________________________________ All the mentioned mark are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.