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MOTOGP RELEASE NOTES Last updated: May 31, 2002 ---------------- DEFAULT CONTROLS ---------------- Menu keys: Cursor keys - change selection Space or Enter - select Esc - go back Tab - special functions (see bottom of screen) Game keys: Left - steer and lean the bike to the left Right - steer and lean the bike to the right Up - accelerate Down - apply front and rear brakes evenly D - lean the rider forward on the bike C - lean the rider back on the bike X - apply the front brake Z - apply the rear brake Q - glance behind you W - change the camera view Esc - pause the game Tip: lean forward for greater speed and stability on straights; lean back to slow down and perform wheelies! Tip: power slide around corners by fully releasing the accelerator (up cursor key) before immediately reapplying. This will cause the rear wheel to spin and allow you drift the rear end of the bike. Tip: applying the rear brake (Z) allows the rider to skid the rear end of his/her bike. Tip: applying the front brake (X) allows the rider to perform tricks such as endos and burnouts. --------------------------- GRAPHICS CARD COMPATIBILITY --------------------------- MotoGP has been tested on these cards: nVidia GeForce4 Ti nVidia GeForce4 MX nVidia GeForce3 nVidia GeForce2 nVidia GeForce nVidia Riva TNT / TNT2 ATI Radeon 8500 ATI Radeon 7500 ATI Radeon 7000 ATI Rage Pro ATI Rage 128 Matrox G550 Matrox G450 Matrox G400 Matrox G200 PowerVR Kyro II Intel i810 3dfx Voodoo5 3dfx Voodoo3 3dfx Voodoo2 It is likely to work on any similar DirectX 8 compatible 3D cards, but this has not been tested. Although it will run on cards with low amounts of video memory, it ideally needs a 32 meg card to fit in all the textures, so it won't look too good on early hardware like the 8 meg Voodoo2! It is very important that you install the latest drivers for your card before running MotoGP, as there are known problems with older drivers on most of the hardware listed above. You can download current drivers from the manufacturer websites: nVidia - http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers ATI - http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html Matrox - http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/home.cfm PowerVR - http://www.powervr.com/Downloads.asp Intel - http://support.intel.com/support/graphics 3dfx - http://www.voodoofiles.com/3dfxhelp.asp --------------- TROUBLESHOOTING --------------- Before installing the game, please make sure the destination drive has enough free space. If the install program warns you that there is not enough room, you should either remove other programs to free up space, or back up and select one of the partial install options (which will give slower loading times but require less room on your hard drive). The install directory name should not be longer than about 200 characters. If it is too long, the install will not work correctly. Some video card drivers contain optimisations that can interfere with the responsiveness of the game. If you find that this is happening try setting Triple Buffered to on under the Advanced Video Mode Settings. On the Radeon 7500 card, some driver versions incorrectly report that vertex shaders are supported even though this card does not in fact provide them. Turning on vertex shaders will cause problems on these cards. Some 7500 drivers also have a bug that can make the bike lighting flicker when hardware T&L is enabled. When the controls are configured to use a mouse under Windows XP, the game may accidentally minimize during races. If you encounter this problem, change the control setup to use keyboard or joystick instead. On some cards, the true 32 bit color depth option (8.8.8.8 format) will be missing from the Advanced Graphics Detail Settings box immediately after a reboot (although the x.8.8.8 format, which is 32 bit without alpha, will still be available). Closing and reopening the launcher may be able to correct this. Although MotoGP is not fully compatible with the Windows 95 operating system, it will run under win95 if you first install the DCOM and Winsock2 upgrades, which can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com. The install program will warn you if Winsock2 is not available, and tell you where to get it. ---------------- DISPLAY SETTINGS ---------------- The Configure Game button in the launcher program lets you tweak MotoGP to get the most possible out of your hardware. Here are a few hints on which settings are the most important, and what you want to avoid... Resolution - choose whatever you like, but personally I think it looks better in lower resolutions (eg. 800x600) with all the effects and antialiasing turned on than in high resolution with them disabled. Graphics detail - this slider allows you to choose the graphics detail. Generally the lower this is set the smoother the game will run. Change this if you want better performance or better graphics. Number of bikes - turning down the number of bikes is a great way to make the game run quickly even with everything else turned on, but then again, winning a race with only 8 bikes just isn't the same as getting out in front of a pack of 20... Advanced Video Mode Settings: Warning: changing these settings may stop the game from working correctly. If you encounter problems, click on the 'Reset Defaults' button to go back to the original values. Color depth - makes surprisingly little difference. Obviously the image quality is better in 24 or 32 bit than in 16 bit mode, but you won't lose any features or effects if you set it to use 16 bit color. The 24 and 32 bit modes are basically the same, except that 32 bit uses an alpha channel while the 24 bit version wastes those bits. Many drivers don't support full 32 bit modes including alpha, but if yours does, and if your card supports pixel shaders, turning this on will allow more accurate shadows. Z depth - this controls both how many bits of zbuffer precision are available, and also whether the zbuffer will include stencil information. If there is only one number (eg. "32 bit"), this means there is only z data, but if there are two (eg. "32 bit (24.8)"), that means the buffer is split into 24 bits of z and 8 of stencil. MotoGP will work with any format of zbuffer, but at least 24 bit z is recommended to avoid sorting problems on distant objects, and a stencil buffer is highly recommended because without it we will be unable to display proper shadows or reflections on wet days. The best format is 24.8 z and stencil. Failing that 24.4 or 15.1 are ok, but you should only use the simple 16 or 32 bit formats if your card doesn't support stencil buffers at all. Antialiasing - as well as conventional fullscreen antialiasing, MotoGP supports a full screen special effects mode that enables motion blur, accurate reflections of the environment during rainy days, and on pixel shader hardware, proper refractive raindrops on the camera lens. Use of this mode is highly recommended if your card is powerful enough to support it, but you may find it is too slow especially if you are running in a high resolution. Advanced Graphics Detail Settings: Warning: changing these settings may stop the game from working correctly. If you encounter problems, click on the 'Reset Defaults' button to go back to the original values. Texture resolution - MotoGP automatically scales the texture resolution according to how much memory is available in your card, so you will normally want to leave this slider in the center. Moving it to the right will force it to use a higher resolution than the autodetection would normally select, which may give better results but runs the risk of extremely bad performance if it forces the card to start thrashing textures, and can even cause crashes on some early cards (for instance Voodoo and some TNT drivers are extremely unreliable if you try to use more textures than will actually fit in the card). Multitexture layers - the landscape can be drawn using anywhere from 1 to 4 layers of multitexturing. Turn this up if your card can handle it, or down if you need to make things run faster. Texture sharpness - this lets you adjust the point where your card will switch between texture mipmaps. Moving it to the right will make the textures look sharper and higher resolution, but at the cost of some shimmering and flicker especially in the distance. Moving it to the left will give a much smoother, more antialiased look, but without such good texture resolution. As for the other settings, the effects (sun, wet reflections, water droplets, particles, and skidmarks), generally cost less than increasing the draw distance and environment/bike/rider/shadow detail, so if your machine isn't fast enough to do them all, you should generally prefer to turn the effects on while keeping the detail quite low. ------- CREDITS ------- Rik 'Don't Panic' Alexander - Producer Jon Gibson - Lead Designer, Associate Producer Mike Patrick - Designer Richard Stone - Designer Alastair Cornish - Additional Design Angry Alkan Hassan - Additional Design Shawn Hargreaves - Lead Programmer Damyan 'Doctor' Pepper - Programmer gavin 'elf23' norman - programmer Sir George of Foot - Programmer Floating Peter Pimley - Programmer Adam Sawkins - Additional Programming Flack - Additional Programming Ross Childs - Additional Programming Sean Smith - Additional Programming Chris Caulfield - Dyne Physics Engine Jason Green - Lead Artist Boris Lowinger - Animator Harvey Parker - Artist Jason McFee - Artist Justin 'The Beaver' Bravery - Artist Lawrence 'I am Barros' Elwick - Artist Mark Hill - Artist Fizzy Pete Butler (aged 12) - Artist Rory 'Dr. Rodriguez' Walker - Artist Barny - Additional Artwork Jez White - Additional Artwork Adam Pitt - Sound Keith Clarke - Sound Music: Game On (Suzuka) - Third Girl Fever #2 (Jerez) - Shawn Hargreaves Dubadebedoom (Le Mans) - Shawn Hargreaves Burning Rubber (Mugello) - Third Girl Power Up (Assen) - BabyDope Rev It Up (Donington) - IC One Moto Trance (Sachsenring) - Third Girl Up All Night (Brno) - Subtropic Miami Sunrise (Valencia) - BabyDope Pray to the Radio (Phillip Island) - Shawn Hargreaves Laugh At You (Sheridan Circuit) - Third Girl Psynn (Menus) - Shawn Hargreaves Cookin' on Electric (Credits) - Third Girl Voiceovers: Alys Elwick - Jerez, Assen, Phillip Island Jon Gibson - Mugello, Donington Lynn Horton - Valencia Peter Pimley - Le Mans Rory Walker - Suzuka, Brno Shawn Hargreaves - Sachsenring Tony Beckwith - Sheridan Circuit Guy Mayhem, Rupert Mills - MIS Lynn Horton, Alys Elwick - Office Admin Craig Gabell - Art Director Greg Michael - Technical Director Nick Baynes - Development Director Tony Beckwith - The Boss Gary Liddon - Another Boss Karl Jeffery - King THQ International: Grant Dean - Director of European Product Development Michael Pattison - Head of Brand Management Jennifer Wyatt - Brand Manager Darren Williams - Brand Assistant Susanne Dieck - Localised Versions Coordination Bernd Kurtz - Localised Versions Coordination Andreas Herbertz - Translation and QA Patrick Fedtke - Translation and QA Thomas Dalamitros - Translation and QA Richard Williams - Senior Marketing Manager, UK+Export Virginie Zerah - Marketing Manager, France Achim Kuerten - Marketing Manager, Germany Andrew Hodgson - Marketing Director, Asia Pacific Yolanda Ridley - Marketing Executive, Export THQ North America: Raphael Hernandez - Producer Ron 'Yeti' Hodge - Lead Tester Danny Smith - Tester Charles Way - Tester David Pate - Tester Michael Alvarino - Tester Brent Doshier - Tester Adam Colman - Tester Joseph Boyle - Tester Brian Hartmann - Tester Carlo Diaz - Tester Mario Waibel, Brian McElroy - QA Technicians Jason Roberts - QA Database Administrator Monica Vallejo - QA Manager Jeremy S. 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