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- 1. Table Of Contents:
- ======================
- 1. Table Of Contents
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Installation
- 4. Keyboard Shortcuts
- 5. Playing the Game
- 6. System Requirements
- 7. Troubleshooting
- 7.1.Installer / Startup-problems
- 7.2.Graphic-related problems
- 7.3.Sound-problems
- 7.4.General problems
- 8. Contact information
-
-
- 2. Introduction
- ===============
-
- Thanks for installing The Longest Journey demo! You're about to
- take a voyage across the Great Sea of Arcadia, from the port city
- of Marcuria to (hopefully) the island of Alais. The chapter you're
- about to play is the sixth chapter, and April, the lead character
- and your alter ego, needs to get to the island of Alais as soon as
- possible. Telling more would be giving the story away, but rest
- assured that there's plenty to see and to do in this demo! And if
- you like what you see, and you want to find out what happens next,
- keep your eyes open for the release of The Longest Journey in a
- store near you!
-
-
- 3. Installation
- ===============
-
- N/A
-
-
- 4. Keyboard Shortcuts
- =====================
-
- The following keyboard shortcuts are available:
-
- F1 Diary Index (Game Menu)
- F2 Save Game
- F3 Restore Game
- F4 Conversation Log
- F6 Video Playback
- F7 Game Settings
- F8 Saves a screenshot in Targa-format
- to the main game folder
- F9 Subtitling on/off
- F10 Quit to main menu
- I Show/hide inventory
- ALT+X Quit game
- ESC Skips dialogues and video sequences
- 1..9 Dialogue selection
- X Show/hide all exits on the current location
- P Pause/resume the game
-
-
- 5. Playing the Game
- ===================
-
- The left mouse button is used for interacting with the environment
- in a number of ways. Left-clicking anywhere on the screen moves
- April as close to that point as possible. Double-clicking the left
- button makes April run. Clicking on a highlighted spot on the
- screen usually brings up a floating menu. Clicking on one of the
- icons on that menu prompts April to interact with the object.
- Double clicking on the same icon forces April to run (if necessary)
- to the object before interacting with it.
-
- In addition, the right mouse button (RMB) is used for the following
- actions: move the mouse inside the dialogue window and click RMB to
- skip the current sentence. Clicking the RMB in the game window opens
- or closes the inventory. If you are holding an item and click RMB,
- the item will be put back in your inventory.
-
-
- 6. System Requirements
- ======================
-
- Minimum system requirements:
-
- Windows 95 or Windows 98
- Pentium 166 MMX
- 32MB RAM
- 4X CD-ROM drive
- Mouse and keyboard
- 640x480 SVGA high color (16-bit) DirectX compatible video card
- with 2MB RAM
- Windows-compatible sound device
- 200MB free hard drive space
-
-
- Recommended System Requirements:
-
- Pentium II 266
- 64MB RAM
- 3D accelerator card (DirectX/Direct3D compatible) with 4MB RAM
- 8X CD-ROM drive
- 1GB free hard drive space
-
-
- 7. Troubleshooting
- ===================
-
- This section assumes that your computer is plugged in (like, duh!),
- that the power is on, and that you are running one of the operating
- systems listed in "System Requirements". In other words, time to
- upgrade from DOS. It also assumes that your computer hardware
- equals or surpasses the minimum requirements listed in "System
- Requirements".
-
- The most common reason why a game doesn't work properly is due to
- old drivers. Make sure you're using the latest drivers for your
- video- and sound-card, and that you've installed the latest version
- of DirectX.
-
-
- 7.1. Installer / Startup-problems:
-
- PROBLEM: The game does not start. A message pops up telling me that
- one or more files are missing and that I need to re-install.
- CAUSE: The paths pointing to the game data have not been set or
- are incorrect.
- SOLUTION: You need to re-install the game to correct this problem.
-
- PROBLEM: During the installation process a message pops up, telling you that
- the game doesn't necessary work with windows NT.
- CAUSE: The Longest Journey needs DirectX 6.1 or better and control over the
- sound hardware to run. This is usually not supported in windows NT.
- SOLUTION: Run the game on a computer with Windows 95 or Windows 98. If you think you
- can make the game run on NT anyway, you are welcome to try it, but we will
- not give any support on it...
- SYSTEM: Any machine running on Windows NT.
-
-
- 7.2. Graphic-related problems:
-
- PROBLEM: The shadows cast by the characters in the game flicker or
- look strange.
- CAUSE: Your 3D hardware has very high Z-buffer resolution.
- SOLUTION: Make sure you have the latest drivers for your 3D video-card
- installed. On the Hardware Setup menu, press the "Advanced"
- button. Under "Troubleshooting" turn on the "Force Single
- Buffer" option.
- HARDWARE: Creative Graphic Blaster Riva TNT; Creative 3D Blaster Riva
- TNT2/TNT2 Ultra.
-
- PROBLEM: The 3d characters dissapear, or are only paritally rendered.
- For instance Aprils legs dissapear
- CAUSE: Your new drivers for the 3d hardware card does things
- differently than the drivers we tested the game with.
- SOLUTION: Turning off shadows in the in game options menu should remove
- the problem as well as the shadows.
- Alternative solution: Reinstall older drivers.
- HARDWARE: Creative Graphic Blaster Riva TNT; Creative 3D Blaster Riva
- TNT2/TNT2 Ultra.
-
- PROBLEM: No characters cast shadows, even if this option has been
- enabled from the Game Settings screen.
- CAUSE: Your selected video-card is reporting that it supports
- W-buffer, even though it doesn't.
- SOLUTION: Update your video-card driver by visiting the card vendor's
- homepage. If this doesn't help, click the "Advanced" button
- in the Hardware Setup dialogue, and deselect the checkbox
- labeled "Enable W-Buffer" under "Troubleshooting".
- HARDWARE: Creative 3D Blaster Savage 4
-
- PROBLEM: April has no face.
- CAUSE: The video-card you're running "The Longest Journey" on
- doesn't support texture-mapping.
- SOLUTION: Select another video-card from the Hardware Setup dialogue
- that appears automatically every time you start "The Longest
- Journey". If there are no other 3D video-cards on your
- computer, try running the game in software mode by deselecting
- the "Enable 3D Acceleration" checkbox. Warning; this may
- make the game appear choppy and slow, and you should
- consider upgrading your video-card.
- HARDWARE: Older 3D graphics accelerator cards.
-
- PROBLEM: Characters in the game look like they have been turned
- inside out.
- CAUSE: Your selected video-card is reporting that it supports
- W-buffer, even though it doesn't.
- SOLUTION: Update your video-card driver by visiting the card vendor's
- homepage. If this doesn't help, click the "Advanced" button
- in the Hardware Setup dialogue, and deselect the checkbox
- labeled "Enable W-Buffer" under "Troubleshooting".
- HARDWARE: 3Dfx Voodoo 3
-
- PROBLEM: The game runs in a small rectangle in the upper left of your
- monitor.
- CAUSE: The game is not able to switch to full-screen mode in a
- proper fashion.
- SOLUTION: Update your drivers.
- HARDWARE: 3Dfx Voodoo 3
-
- PROBLEM: 32-bit colour depth is not available from the list in the
- Hardware Setup dialogue.
- CAUSE: Your video-card doesn't support 32-bit true color mode, or
- it doesn't have enough memory to run "The Longest Journey"
- in 32-bit true color.
- SOLUTION: Select another video-card (if available) from the Hardware
- Setup dialog, or run the game in 16-bit colour instead.
- HARDWARE: 3Dfx Voodoo 1, 2 and 3
-
- PROBLEM: The trains and the flying cars are flickering, and appear in
- front of everything else on the screen when they shouldn't.
- CAUSE: Double-buffering doesn't work properly with your currently
- selected 3D video-card.
- SOLUTION: Click the "Advanced" button in the Hardware Setup dialogue,
- and turn "Force Single Buffer" on by enabling the checkbox.
- HARDWARE: Matrox Millennium G200 AGP
-
- PROBLEM: When I move the cursor around, it leaves a trail on the
- screen.
- CAUSE: Your video-card has been set up to ignore the "Wait for
- VSYNC" command.
- SOLUTION: This may differ from card to card, but one example solution
- (for the Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT) is as follows:
- Open Display Properties (Control Panel\Display), select
- BlasterControl-> Tweak-> Advanced Settings, and make sure
- that the check-box "Wait for VSYNC" is enabled. If you are
- using the Nvidia RIVA TNT Detonator Drivers, you might not
- be able to turn on "Wait for VSYNC". To fix the problem,
- either change back to the official Creative Labs drivers,
- or run the game in software rendering mode. Alternatively,
- contact your card's vendor and ask them how to enable "Wait
- for VSYNC".
- HARDWARE: Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT
-
- PROBLEMS: The text on the main-menu and/or in the game have a magenta
- colour, and look garbled.
- CAUSE: Window's automatic font-smoothing isn't perfect.
- SOLUTION: Go to Display Properties, select the "Effects" tab and
- uncheck "Smooth edges of screen fonts".
- HARDWARE: No particular hardware.
-
- PROBLEM: When I click on "End the Journey" in the main menu, the game
- seems to lock up, and the display looks messed up.
- CAUSE: You're using two video-cards in SLI (Scan Line Interleave)
- mode, and the driver for your cards isn't able to display
- the message-boxes.
- SOLUTION: Turn off the SLI mode in Display->Properties->[GfxCard]->
- Advanced Settings. You should now be able to see the
- message-boxes.
- HARDWARE: Graphics cards that run in SLI mode (Voodoo 1 / Voodoo 2).
-
-
- 7.3. Sound-problems:
-
- PROBLEM: A message pops up when the game starts, saying you may
- experience degraded sound quality.
- CAUSE: The drivers for your soundcard are not DirectX certified.
- SOLUTION: The game may still run flawlessly, but if it doesn't,
- contact your sound-card's hardware vendor and inquire about
- updated drivers.
- HARDWARE: Very new or very old soundcards.
-
-
- 7.4. General problems:
-
- PROBLEM: The game is really choppy.
- CAUSE: Your system may not fulfill all hardware requirements.
- "The Longest Journey" requires a 166-MMX Pentium to run at
- all, and it prefers a much faster CPU to run optimally.
- SOLUTION: A 3D graphics accelerator may help performance, as will
- more RAM, a faster hard-disk, or a faster CPU.
- HARDWARE: Slow systems.
-
- PROBLEM: The game stops with the message "Out of Memory".
- CAUSE: You don't have enough space on the hard-drive where the
- Windows swap-file resides.
- SOLUTION: Free up some space on the drive where the Windows swap-file
- is located (normally the C:\ drive) and start the game again.
- HARDWARE: No specific hardware.
-
-
- 8. Contact information
- ======================
-
- If any of the above troubleshooting tips don't work out, please don't
- hesitate to contact us immediately, through our official web-page at:
- http://www.longestjourney.com/
-
- Last updated: November 15th, 1999
-
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