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- BATTLECRUISER:3000AD TROUBLING SHOOTING FAQ
- ===========================================
-
- Date : 10-12-97
- Author : Derek Smart, 3000AD
- Support : www.bc3000ad.com
- Email : support@3000ad.com
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-
- 1: BC3K System Requirements
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-
- .PROCESSOR : Pentium 166 or higher
-
- .OPERATING
- SYSTEM : MS-DOS 6.0 or higher or
- MS-DOS mode under Windows 95 is also supported
-
- .VIDEO CARD : VGA card with 1MB RAM or
- VESA compliant SVGA card for 640x480x256 gameplay.
- VLB or PCI card is highly recommended.
-
- .HARD DRIVE : Full install - 160MB + 20MB for swap file.
- Partial install - 55MB + 20MB for swap file.
-
- .CD-ROM : 2x MPC-11 compliant or higher.
-
- .MEMORY : 8MB minimum. 16MB recommended.
-
- .CONTROLLER : Microsoft compatible mouse is required.
- A joystick or other flight controller is optional.
-
- .SOUND CARD : Supports most major sound cards.
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- 2: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS
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-
- -Method #1
-
- Insert the cd-rom in the drive, change to the drive and type
-
- 'install' and press <enter> (omit the quotes)
-
- If prompted for the language type, enter the number but DO NOT press ENTER.
-
- Follow the on screen graphical prompts. After the installation in finished,
- you will be prompted to setup your sound card. Select your digitized music
- card, test it and DISABLE the MIDI card. BC3K does not support MIDI music.
-
- If the installation refuses to run or after it is finished some files are
- not copied to your hard drive. Try running under a pure DOS environment or
- MS-DOS mode, if you are running under Windows 95.
-
- If you still cannot get the graphical install to run, try Method #2 below.
-
- - Method #2
-
- Instead of running the graphical install, try running the text version by
- typing
-
- 'install t' and press <enter> (omit the quotes)
-
- If that does not work, have some aspirins nearby and try Method #3
-
- - Method #3 -
-
- 1. From DOS or from MS-DOS mode under Win95 create a directory on your hard
- drive for the game, i.e.
-
- md c:\bc3k
-
- 2. Copy the ENTIRE cd-rom contents to the install directory, i.e. Here, I
- assume that z: is your cd-rom and c:\bc3k is the install directory
-
- copy z:\*.* c:\bc3k /s
-
- 3. Change to the install directory and configure your sound card by running
- the
- setup program
-
- cd c:\bc3k <enter>
- setup <enter>
-
- Be sure to disable MIDI and _test_ the digital sound driver
-
- 4. Back in DOS, you MUST now create a file required by the game. The file
- should be a PLAIN TEXT file like the one created by Notepad.
-
- Type these lines in the file EXACTLY as you see them. with NO spaces!!!!
- Substitute the 'cd-rom' and 'home' parameters to suit your environment. DO
- NOT put a colon after the cd-rom parameter. Save the file as BC3000AD.INI
- and it MUST reside in the ROOT of where you installed the game,
- i.e c:\bc3k
-
- [BC3000AD]
- cdrom=z
- home=c:\bc3k
- version=1.00
- install=full
- ptefiles=bc3lib3.res
-
- 5. Once you've done that, let's see if the game will support your video
- adapter. Remember, I know nothing about your machine so I'm just doing the
- best I can. Please bear with me. Anyway, type this command from your
- install directory to see the list of support graphics cards. If the one
- used by your machine is not listed, you MUST locate and use a VESA driver.
- You can download SCI-TECH Display Doctor from www.scitechsoft.com . It's
- the BEST on the planet. Period. It's GUARANTEED to work with BC3K if it
- supports your card in VESA mode.
-
- bc3000ad /v? <enter>
-
- If your card IS supported, start BC3K using it's profile number. See below.
-
- To proceed further, we're going to assume that (a) your video card is
- supported or (b) it wasn't, so you went ahead and downloaded SDD which you
- have now installed.
-
- So, onto step #6. If you got this far, we're in business. This may seem long
- winded but I'm a perfectionist, I do this everyday and I WANT you to PLAY
- this game.
-
- 6. If you have to use VESA mode, load the VESA driver via your autoexec.bat
- file, reboot the machine so that it is activated and fire 'er up in VESA
- mode using the special commandline parameter as follows:
-
- bc3000ad /v1 <enter>
-
- If your card is supported, then fire 'er up using it's profile number
- detected in STEP #5 above. i.e if your card has an S3 chipset, you would
- type
-
- bc3000ad /v21 <enter>
-
- If you are welcomed by an intro, you're in business. You can watch it or you
- can cancel it with ESCape key
-
- Once you get to the Main Menu, select Quit to DOS and let's proceed.
-
- 7. In this step, we're going to assume that you have all the latest patches.
-
- To apply the patches:
-
- - Change to your BC3K install directory and unzip the patch file. Be sure
- to read the README.TXT file if there is one included. Once you have
- unzipped the patch file, use the following to apply the patch.
-
- For the US version, type:
-
- updateus x <enter> (where x is the cd-rom drive letter)
-
- For the UK version, type:
-
- updateuk x <enter> (where x is the cd-rom drive letter)
-
- *Note: You MUST have the cd-rom in the drive!!
-
- You can later print the BC3KVER.TXT file which contains patch update news
- and BC3KEYS.TXT which contains the revised keyboard commands.
-
- 8. Once you're done applying the patches, run the game as in STEP #6
-
- If all goes well, you're in business.
-
- Welcome to GALactic COMmand, commander. Welcome to the future.
-
- 9. Simulating a partial install to save disk space:
-
- You can save about 95MB of disk space (depending on the size of your disk
- clusters) by deleting ALL the files in the following directories. DO NOT
- remove the directories themselves and the cd-rom MUST be in the drive when
- playing the game!
-
- c:\bc3k\anim
- c:\bc3k\pte
- c:\bc3k\ste
- c:\bc3k\previews (UK version only)
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- 3: VIDEO PROBLEMS
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-
- 1. If after you install the game you get a General Protection Fault when you
- try to run it, you may have to configure BC3K to use your video card.
-
- Remember, I know nothing about your machine so I'm just doing the
- best I can. Please bear with me. Anyway, type this command from your
- install directory to see the list of support graphics cards. If the one
- used by your machine is not listed, you MUST locate and use a VESA driver.
- You can download SCI-TECH Display Doctor from www.scitechsoft.com . It's
- the BEST on the planet. Period. It's GUARANTEED to work with BC3K if it
- supports your card in VESA mode.
-
- bc3000ad /v?
-
- If your card IS supported, start BC3K using it's profile number by typing
-
- bc3000ad /vn
-
- Where n is the number of your graphics card returned by /v?. For example, if
- your card uses the S3 chipset, you would type..
-
- bc3000ad /v21
-
- 2. If your card is not supported in it's native mode, i.e, not listed when the
- /v? parameter is used, then you have to use VESA mode. Load the VESA driver
- for your card and then start BC3K with..
-
- bc3000ad /v1 <enter>
-
- If you don't have a VESA driver, the best universal one is available from
- Sci-Tech at www.scitechsoft.com.
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- 4: PREVIEW MANUAL
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-
- A preview release manual is available at the Take 2 or 3000AD web sites in a
- file called BC3KMAN.ZIP. It does not contain screen shots but the final version
- being released with the upcoming v1.01D will. You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader
- v3.0 to access the manual. You can download it at www.adobe.com
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- 5: RUNNING UNDER WINDOWS 95
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-
- Though BC3K is not supported under Windows 95 except in MS-DOS mode, some have
- been able to get it to run by creating a desktop shortcut using the following
- settings.
-
- Refer to your Windows 95 manual for details on how to create a shortcut.
-
- Create the shortcut on your desktop. Make sure the command line and working
- directory BOTH point to the BC3K install directory. If you will be forcing
- a video mode using the /v command, then remember to add this parameter at
- the end of the command line.
-
- Once you've created the shortcut, open it up and make the following changes
- to it's settings.
-
- Note: ON = tick mark
- OFF = no tick mark
-
- Program - close on exit = ON
-
- If you decide to run in MS-DOS mode if running from Win95 using this
- shortcut doesn't work, then you can configure MS-DOS mode by
- clicking on the 'advanced' tab.
-
- Memory - Total = AUTO
- Initial Environment = AUTO
- EMS memory = AUTO
- XMS memory = AUTO
- Uses HMA = ON
- DPMI memory = AUTO
-
- Screen - Full Screen = ON
- Dynamic Memory Allocation = OFF
-
- Misc - Allow screen saver = OFF
- Always suspend = OFF
- Idle sensitivity = LOW (all the way to the left)
- Mouse exclusive mode = ON
-