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"Read Me" file
Star Trek(tm): 25th Anniversary Enhanced CD-ROM
===========================================================================
This file contains late-breaking information that you should know about.
This file has the following entries in it.
MEMORY RECOMMENDATIONS
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
PROBLEMS WITH NCACHE
SOUND CARDS
TROUBLESHOOTING
INTERPLAY DEMOS
===========================================================================
MEMORY RECOMMENDATIONS
You need 560K free low memory and 1024K free EMS memory to play the game.
If you can free up even more memory, the game will play faster.
We recommend playing the game with 2048K (or more) free EMS memory.
The game will also play faster if you can free up more low memory.
Use the MEM command (with DOS 4.0 or higher) or the CHKDSK command
(with versions of DOS before 4.0) to see how much free memory you have
in your computer. Refer to your DOS manual for more information on
freeing up low memory and EMS memory.
===========================================================================
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
To install the game for the first time, you need to run the INSTALL.EXE
program on the CD-ROM. Make sure you have about 10MB of free space on
your hard disk before you begin. Installation will take 2 or 3 minutes.
If you are running EGA instead of VGA, run the program INSTEGA.EXE instead.
If you change your sound card after you install the game for the first
time, type the following commands from the DOS prompt before you play the
game again.
C:
CD \TREKCD
SETUP
The SETUP program will customize the game for your sound card. You do NOT
need to run the SETUP program if you have already run the INSTALL program
and selected your sound card settings; the SETUP program is only necessary
if you need to _change_ your sound card settings.
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PROBLEMS WITH NCACHE
You may experience game freezes or erratic mouse behavior if you use the
disk cache program NCACHE or NCACHE2 with expanded memory. If you use one
of these programs and you experience problems, try running the program with
the flag
NCACHE /ext
or
NCACHE2 /ext
This may solve the problem. If you continue to experience problems,
try to set up your memory configuration so you have 1500K free EMS memory
before you begin. If you still experience problems, try disabling NCACHE
before running the game.
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SOUND CARDS
If you have a sound card that is not listed in the INSTALL program:
First try installing the game with the option "100% SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE".
If this option does not work, try tweaking your BLASTER variable as listed
below in the "Troubleshooting" section, below.
If you just can't make it work, then install the game again, using the
option "MOSTLY SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE". This has a greater chance of
success on certain machines, but the sound quality will be lower with some
pops and clicks in the speech.
Technical explanation: All sound cards except "MOSTLY SOUND BLASTER
COMPATIBLE" use a feature of most sound cards called "autoinitialize DMA".
If you know that your computer system or sound card does not support this
feature, you will have to use the "MOSTLY SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE" setting.
===========================================================================
TROUBLESHOOTING
Q: "I don't hear any speech."
A: 1. Make sure you have speakers or headphones hooked up to your sound
card, and that you have turned up the volume by using the volume
controls on the back of the sound card, or by using a software
volume control program. See your sound card manual for details.
2. Make sure you are not running a DOS shell from Windows or any other
program that will shell to DOS. To ensure this, type the word EXIT
at the C: prompt. If nothing happens, go on to step 3.
3. Make sure you selected the correct sound card settings when you ran
the INSTALL program. If you need to change these settings, go into
the TREKCD directory on your hard disk and type SETUP. (See
"Installation and Setup," above.)
4. If you still don't hear any speech, there may be an error in the
SET BLASTER variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Make sure that this
statement correctly reflects the IRQ and DMA settings of your sound
card. The installation program that came with your sound card
probably correctly set up the SET BLASTER statement. Just in case
the statement is wrong, try putting one (and only one) of these
statements in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T3
These two statements are typical of most sound cards. If you have
altered your sound card settings, be sure to adjust the SET BLASTER
statement accordingly.
5. If the settings are correct and you still don't hear any speech,
try using the 100% SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE setting in the SETUP
program.
6. If you still don't hear any speech, try using the MOSTLY SOUND
BLASTER COMPATIBLE setting in the SETUP program.
Q: "The background sounds seem to have a fragment of speech in them, or
sometimes it sounds like the background sounds seem to hiccup."
A: Check your CONFIG.SYS file and see if there is a /E somewhere after the
line containing the text "MSCDEX". If there is a /E, then try removing
the /E. This may solve sound problems on certain systems.
Q: "It says I don't have enough memory."
A: See page 5 of the manual for some ways to free up more memory for
the game.
Q: "The music is too loud."
A: Each sound card comes with a software program that will adjust the
volume of music and digitized sound that is played through the card.
See your sound card manual for details on the volume control of your
particular card.
If you think the music is drowning out the sound of the voices, you
should be able to use this volume control program to reduce the volume
of the music while maintaining the volume of the speech.
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INTERPLAY DEMOS
This CD-ROM contains a number of demonstration versions of other Interplay
games. To get to the demos, type DEMOS from the root directory of your
CD-ROM.