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- Tropical Heat Version 1.0 Readme
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- This readme contains information not available when the manual was printed
- and covers the following subjects:
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- 1. Video Display Mode
- 2. Sound Track Cuts Out
- 3. Sound Track Won't Play
- 4. Warning Message While Running the Screen Saver
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- 1. Video Display Mode
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- Tropical Heat supports display modes of up to 16.7 Million colors, however
- lower end systems may experience reduced performance when displaying in
- the highest color mode. Displaying or saving an image in 16.7 Million
- colors may take considerably longer on a system with 4 MB of RAM or a
- system with a lesser quality video card.
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- Performance can be greatly and easily improved by following one or more of
- the steps listed below:
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- 1. Display and save images in 256 Colors.
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- 2. If you want to display the Tropical Heat images in more than 256
- colors use the windows control panel to change your display mode to
- 64K colors. This will produce results nearly indistinguishable
- from 16.7 Million colors.
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- 3. Check with your video card manufacturer's technical support line to
- make sure that you are using the most current version of their video
- driver. Manufactures frequently update their driver software in
- order to eliminate known problems or improve performance.
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- 2. Sound Track Cuts Out
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- Depending on the configuration of your system and the number of currently
- open applications the sound track may occasionally pause while running the
- screen saver.
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- Systems which have only 4 megabytes of RAM can run Tropical Heat with
- no problem, but keep in mind that Windows requires a great deal more of
- available resources in order to display images in modes greater than
- 256 colors. Tropical Heat recommends displaying and saving images in
- 256 colors when running on a 4 MB system, to reduce the drain on system
- resources.
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- If the problem persists, check your Windows and DOS manuals for sections
- covering "Making More Memory Available" and "Optimizing Your System" or
- use the Tropical Heat Screen Saver Setup to turn the sound track off.
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- 3. Sound Track Won't Play
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- If the sound track does not play while the Screen Saver is running check
- the following:
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- 1. Use the Tropical Heat Screen Saver Setup to confirm that a sound
- track has been selected.
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- 2. Check the sound driver software installed with your sound card for
- a sound mixer application. Run the mixer application and confirm
- the sound level setting for .WAV files. Some applications which
- play MIDI files will inadvertently turn .WAV volume off without
- warning the user.
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- 3. If your audio still will not play, double click on the Sound icon
- within the Windows Control Panel. Highlight the chimes.wav file
- and click the Test button. If you do not hear any audio contact
- Windows technical support regarding your systems inability to
- play .WAV files.
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- 4. Warning Message While Running the Screen Saver.
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- If you receive the following message before the display of an image in the
- Tropical Heat Screen Saver:
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- "TRP00??.SVB was saved in 16.7 Million colors. Now translating to 256 colors"
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- Tropical Heat is trying to display a 16.7 Million color image on a 256 color
- display. This may take longer than you desire or effect image color quality.
- The message only occurs when you have added images to the screen saver at a
- higher color level and then changed your video display mode to 256 colors.
- Displaying an image under these conditions requires extra effort to modify
- it on the fly for your new video mode.
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- This can be easily corrected by entering Tropical Heat and re-adding the
- images to the screen saver in 256 colors.
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