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Baylor Round Up 1999 CD-ROM
GETTING STARTED
To start the adventure:
Windows 95/98/NT: Run from Autostart menu or
run D:\autorun.exe (where D: is your CD-ROM drive)
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SECTIONS
1. Tips
2. Startup Problems/Requirements
3. Audio/Video problems
4. Bugs and Other Problems
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1. Tips
* Alt-F4 to quit out of the program
* Switch to High Color (16-bit) display mode for best-looking graphics
and video. (Control Panels / Display / Settings Tab / Color Palette)
* Multitasking is not recommended. (Quit other applications before
running for best performance)
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2. Startup Problems
* Nothing appears when CD is put into drive
Autoplay may be turned off on your computer. In this case, please go to
"My Computer" and double-click on the CD-ROM icon and run "Setup.exe".
In rare cases, the Autoplay screen may be glitched or fail to load. Make
sure you have the latest Windows video drivers for your specific video
card if this is the case. These can usually be downloaded from the
manufacturer's website.
* Slow Load Time
Minimum system requirements are greater than most multimedia titles.
Slow load times can be caused by a number of factors or combinations of
system components. Surpassing the following suggested system
requirements (particularly RAM) will improve performance. If your
computer is near the minimum requirements, should play but load times
may be slow.
* Suggested System Requirements *
Windows 95/98
Pentium 133
32 MB RAM
4X+ CD-ROM drive
16-bit soundcard
For the best experience, a Pentium II-class computer, 48 MB RAM, and an
8X CD-ROM drive is highly suggested.
* Installing QuickTime 4.0
QuickTime 4.0 for Windows will be installed automatically on your
system if it's not there already. Unfortunately, QuickTime 4.0 is not
backwards compatible, but it is ok to also have both 16-bit and 32-bit
versions of QuickTime on your system, they have been designed to
coincide on the same system with no conflicts.
Note: A QuickTime for Windows program group will be created. You don't
need any of these files to access the CD-ROM. These icons
are just there as part of the QuickTime installation program and may be
used to run QuickTime movies externally, such as ones that are
downloaded from the internet.
* General Errors
This program does not install anything on your system
(Windows 95 or later) besides QuickTime. All content is run off the CD.
* Re-installing QuickTime may also fix other errors.
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3. Audio/video problems
*Purple Flash
If you see a periodic purple flash while the program is
running, turn off Direct Draw Acceleration to remedy the problem.
Select Video Settings in the QuickTime control panel and uncheck the
'Enable Direct Draw Acceleration' box.
* Color mode/palette
This title is optimized for Windows 95/98, videocard at
16-bit color setting.
* Windows 95/98 -- To run in 16-bit color, your video card setting must
be set to that color bit-depth. The ways to switch color bit-depths
vary from computer to computer, usually it is a control panel installed
in the Control Panels folder.
In Windows 95/98, go to:
Control Panel -> Display -> Settings and change the color palette
setting to High Color (16 bit).
* No sound / general audio problems
1. Make sure WAV volume is turned up in your mixer (Windows 95/98 -
double-click on the speaker in the bottom right hand corner of the
screen) and that you can play .WAV audio (you should be able to hear
previews in the Sounds control panel).
2. Make sure you have the latest sound drivers from the manufacturer
of your soundcard installed. Usually they can be downloaded from the
manufacturer's website.
3. You may get better results with sound by going to Control Panel ->
QuickTime -> Sound Out and switching from DirectSound to WaveOut.
4. There may be a conflict between the QuickTime music synthesizer and
the soundcard's software wavetable emulation. To remove the QuickTime
music synthesizer, go to Control Panel -> QuickTime -> Music -> Edit
List -> Synthesizer. Choose "No synthesizer" in the synthesizer list.
5. Soundcards with software wavetable emulation [most cards do NOT
have this feature] may cause QuickTime audio sync problems. Please
turn off this feature to see if it is causing the problem. This can be
done usually in a soundcard specific control panel or go to Control
Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> Sound, Video and Game Controllers
and disable this option from there.
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4. Bugs and Other Problems
We've worked really hard to make this program bug-proof and fun
to use. But there may still be some problems that you will encounter.
If you are having problems, first check to see that you computer is set
up properly and review some of the suggestions in this Read Me file.
If you are convinced everything is OK with your computer, you may have
discovered a bug or design problem. If so, we'd like to hear about it.
Please send email to: support@electours.com
Please, no phone calls! We will be happy to research whatever problem
you may be having, however we must limit correspondence to fax and
email.
Describe the problem in as much detail as you can, such as the error
message and exact steps taken. Include all the details about your
computer too (e.g. make/model of computer, model of videocard, RAM
installed, etc.). Your bug report will help make future issues better.
* Note to Windows 3.1 users:
This title does not run on Windows 3.1 due to advances in
software technology.
Thank you for using this CD-ROM. We welcome any
suggestions or comments to mail@electours.com.
If you would like more information about creating a multimedia CD or
DVD-ROM for you company or institution, please contact Electric Tours
at the following locations:
PHONE: 800-896-4743
FAX: 512-246-3235
Email: mail@electours.com
WEB: www.electours.com
SNAIL MAIL:
Electric Tours, Corp.
208 West Bagdad Road
Suite 1-2
Round Rock, TX 78664