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EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR GRAPHICS CARD
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Savage may suffer from very poor performance if your motherboard drivers and graphics card drivers are not up to date.  We strongly recommend you follow these steps to ensure that Savage will run properly.  (If you don't want to do this right away, you can reference this document after your Savage install has been completed by clicking on the “Important Performance Information” shortcut in your “Savage – The Battle for Newerth” program group.)

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STEP ONE
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First and foremost, you must make sure your motherboard drivers are current.

Not doing this may cause your fast AGP graphics card to run in slow PCI mode, even though you might have it plugged perfectly well into an AGP slot.  This is impacting your framerate in all games, although games that have to send a lot of polygons per frame to your video card (such as Savage) will be most noticeably affected.

Here is how you can identify what motherboard AGP chipset you have, and where to get updated drivers for your motherboard:

For Windows XP:
Click the Start button -> click Control Panel -> double-click the System applet -> select the Hardware tab -> click the Device Manager button -> expand the 'System devices' listing.

For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Windows Me:
Click the Start button -> click Settings -> click Control Panel -> double-click the System applet -> select the Device Manager tab -> expand the 'System devices' listing.

For Windows 2000:
Click the Start button -> click Settings -> click Control Panel -> double-click the System applet -> select the Hardware tab -> click the Device Manager button -> -> expand the 'System devices' listing.

Look for the string "<something> processor to AGP controller"

Generally it will be AMD-<number>, Intel(R) <number>, NVidia <number>, VIA <number>, ALI <number>, or SIS

If you have AMD:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_2336,00.html

If you have Intel:
* Get updated drivers here: http://intel.com/support/chipsets/driver.htm

If you have NVidia (nForce chipset):
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

If you have VIA:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300

If you have SIS:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.sis.com/support/driver/  (or possibly http://driver.sis.com/agp/)

If you have ALI:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/support/support_guide_agp.htm
* Be sure to read the following URL: http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/support/support_guide_agp.htm

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STEP TWO
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Secondly, ensure that you have the latest OpenGL drivers installed for your graphics card.  These are usually available from your graphics card manufacturer's web page.

Drivers for Nvidia cards may be found here:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Drivers for ATI cards may be found here:
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

If you are unsure which drivers to download, or you do not have an ATI or Nvidia card installed, refer to the documentation for your graphics card to determine how to update your drivers.

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Again, you can reference this document after your Savage install has been completed by clicking on the “Important Performance Information” shortcut in your “Savage – The Battle for Newerth” program group.