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RELEASE NOTES FOR DESCENT 3: DEMO 2 Version 1.2 ___________________________________ THIS DEMO IS FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES see section 14 for full details ___________________________________ ______________________ TABLE of CONTENTS ______________________ 1. Introduction 2. System Requirements 3. Installation 4. Purchasing The Full Product 5. 3D Video Card Drivers 6. Controls 7. Multiplayer Games 8. Menus 9. Maximizing Performance 10. Troubleshooting 11. Customer Service 12. Reporting Bugs 13. Special Thanks 14. Legal Stuff ______________________ 1. INTRODUCTION ______________________ Thanks for playing Descent 3 Demo 2! Descent 3 Demo 2 is a one-level demo of Descent 3 that we've created to give everyone a taste of all the great stuff we've done since we released the original Descent 3 Demo last year. While we think this demo is pretty stable, we know it's not perfect. If you find any problems, please let us know by emailing us at d3bugs@outrage.com. We're hard at work getting the last bugs out of the full version, so your feedback will be helpful. If you like this demo, be sure to look for the full 15-level Descent 3, to be published in May 1999 by Interplay Productions. __________________________ 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS __________________________ Minimum: A Pentium 200MHz processor. 32MB RAM. 70MB hard disk space. A sound card. A supported 3D video card *with the latest drivers*. If you have Windows 95 or Windows 98: DirectX 6.1 software. If you have Windows NT 4.0: Service Pack 3 or greater. Recommended: A Pentium II 300MHz processor. 64MB RAM. Of course, the faster the CPU and the more RAM your computer has, the better. ______________________ 3. INSTALLATION ______________________ INSTALLATION: 1. Install the game. First make sure you have about 70MB free space on your hard disk. Run the installer by double-clicking on the file Descent3Demo2.exe. 2. Set up the game: Choose "Descent 3 Demo 2" from the Start Menu or double-click on the icon of the same name. The Descent 3 Demo 2 launcher will give you several options. If you have an Internet connection, click "Auto-Update" to connect over the Internet to make sure you have the latest version of the game. If you do not have DirectX 6.1 installed you can do so by clicking on "Install Drivers". After this is done, click the "Setup" button. Click each of the tabs at the top of the Setup window to configure all your options. There will be a pop-up menu or buttons letting you select what devices you want to use for video, audio, joystick, and network, and to set the detail settings Descent 3 Demo 2 will use on your system. Click OK at the bottom of the Setup window when you're all set up. 3. PLAY THE GAME. Click the "Play" button to begin. __________________________________ 4. PURCHASING THE FULL PRODUCT __________________________________ Descent 3 Demo 2 contains one single-player level and one new multi-player level. Imagine what you can do with the full game! Have a blast shattering robots by yourself and humiliating your friends over the Net with this version, and then go buy the full game! Immediately! Now! See your favorite retailer, who will be more than happy to assist you with your purchase. To contact us and keep tabs on Descent 3, visit: Interplay Productions: http://www.interplay.com/ Outrage Entertainment: http://www.outrage.com/ ____________________________ 5. 3D VIDEO CARD DRIVERS ____________________________ It is very, very important that you have the very latest drivers for your 3D video card! All 3D video card companies are updating their drivers very, VERY frequently at this time. The driver that came in the box with your 3D video card is probably outdated by now, and by updating its driver software, you will fix bugs and achieve performance gains. Depending on your card, this may mean a LARGE increase in rendering speed. See the web page of your card company for the most recent drivers. Here is what we hope is just the right amount of detail about 3D video cards and the Descent 3 Demo. You can play Descent 3 with any one of these three 3D APIs: 3Dfx Glide: The best choice for 3Dfx cards. OpenGL: One choice for non-3Dfx cards. Direct3D: Another choice for non-3Dfx cards. After you enter the Descent 3 Demo Launcher, click "Setup", and click the "Video" tab, a popup menu will appear that lets you choose the "Currently Selected Rendering Device". You'll want to choose the best item on this popup menu for your 3D video card and driver. 1. If you have any 3D video card that uses a 3Dfx chipset, you will get the best performance by selecting "3Dfx Glide - Voodoo Family". 2. If you have another type of 3D card, you should choose the "Direct3D" option that mentions your 3D video card by name, or "Direct 3D - Primary Display Driver". Or you can choose the "OpenGL" option that mentions your 3D video card by name, or "OpenGL - Primary Display Driver". Each 3D card has different drivers available. Some cards have only an OpenGL driver; some have only a Direct3D driver; some have both. Choose the driver that's best for your video card. If you are unsure, just choose one, and if performance is horrible, then quit the demo, set the game to use a different driver, and run it again. Note that to use Direct3D, you must have Windows 95 or Windows 98, and you must have DirectX 6. If you are running Windows NT, you'll need to use Glide or OpenGL. Visit your 3D video card manufacturer's web site to obtain the latest drivers. They should be available somewhere in the "Support" section, in most cases. If you are an adventurous, technical person, you may want to experiment with the "reference drivers" that were written by the company that manufactured the 3D chipset that is on your video card. Visit the web site of the manufacturer of the *chipset* of your 3D video card if you'd like to play. _______________ 6. CONTROLS _______________ While playing the game, press F2 then click on "Customize Keyboard" to customize your keyboard and joystick controls. To change a particular key, click the box next to a command, then type the key you want to use for that command. You can assign up to two keys to each function. Default Key Action Key Action ------- ------ --- ------ A Forward F1 Help screen Z Reverse F2 Game Options S Afterburner F3 Show/hide cockpit Left Turn left F4 Guide-Bot menu Right Turn right F5 Record Demo Up Pitch down F6 Multiplayer: Show/hide menu Down Pitch up F7 Multiplayer: Show/hide stats F8 Multiplayer: Send message to all Shift + F8 Show/hide Ship Message Log Shift + F9 Show/hide HUD Message Log Shift + Tab Go to TelCom Screen Ctrl Fire primary weapon F12 Drop Marker Spc Fire secondary weapon 1 Select laser F Flare 1 (2nd press) Select super laser H Headlight 2 Select Vauss Cannon R Show Rear View 2 (2nd press) Select Mass Driver 3 Select Napalm Cannon 3 (2nd press) Select Microwave 4 Select Plasma Cannon Tab Automap 6 Select Concussion missile Q Bank left 6 (2nd press) Select Frag Rocket E Bank right 7 Select Homing Missile 7 (2nd press) Select Guided Missle 8 Impact Mortar 8 (2nd press) Select Napalm Rocket 9 Select Cyclone Missile Pad1 Slide left Enter Drop Gunboy countermeasure (main Pad3 Slide right keyboard Enter key, not numpad) Pad- Slide up ; Cycle Countermeasures Pad+ Slide down - Shrink screen (speeds up game) Alt Slide sideways while + Enlarge screen using arrow keys Print Take a screenshot Scrn (saved in .TGA format) Pressing Shift-F1 or Shift-F2 will cycle through rear-view and dropped marker cameras in the HUD. ________________________ 7. MULTIPLAYER GAMES ________________________ For information on multiplayer games, see the file "Multiplayer Readme.txt", which contains all the information you will need to play multiplayer games over the Internet, on a LAN, or using a modem or a serial cable. _____________ 8. MENUS _____________ There are many menus in Descent 3 Demo 2. This section will list every single menu, every single menu option, and what each one does. MAIN MENU --------- New Game: Start a new single-player game. Load Game: Load a game-in-progress that you previously saved. View Demo: View a demo you have recorded using the F5 key. Options: Configure your controls, HUD, graphics, and game options. Pilots: Add, delete, or change pilots so different players on your machine can keep their custom controls and settings intact and available. Multiplayer: Join or start a multiplayer game over a modem connection, a serial connection, a LAN, or over the Internet. Credits: See who made Descent 3 Demo 2 Quit: Quit the game so you can run to the store and buy the full version of Descent 3. OPTIONS MENU (after you choose 'Options' from the main menu) ------------------------------------------------------------ Video: Allows you to change Detail: Adjust graphics quality, detail level, and speed. Sound: Adjust sound & music volume and other settings. (In the full version, you're also able to play with Aureal 3D or DirectSound 3D.) General: Adjust brightness, resolution, and other graphics-related options. HUD: Customize what is displayed on your Heads-Up Display, and how. CONFIG: Configure your keyboard, joystick and/or mouse. Set up weapon precedence. DONE: Returns you to the Main Menu. VIDEO MENU ------------- Resolution: Lets you switch between 512x384, 640x480, 800x600, 960x720, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1600x1200 resolution. Bilinear Filtering: Turns on a graphics smoothing option supported by your 3D video card. Turning this option off may result in a faster frame rate, but less smooth textures. MIP Mapping: Turning this option on will improve the look of textures in the distance and remove any swimming or sparkling effects you might see otherwise. However, MIP mapping will take up extra memory in your system RAM as well as your 3D video card's texture RAM, and this may cause a slower frame rate. VSync Enabled: If turned off, draws frames as fast as possible, which may cause monitor "tearing" or flickering. Leave this off for maximum performance. If you get tearing or flickering effects on the screen, try turning it on and see if you prefer the look Adjust Brightness: Sets the brightness of the level using your 3D video card's brightness/gamma controls. DETAIL LEVEL SETTINGS --------------------- This menu lets you configure various graphical effects. If Descent 3 Demo 2 plays too slowly on your system, you should turn off some of these graphical effects to help your system play the game faster. Preset Details: This is the first thing to try. Click "Low", "Medium", "High", or "Highest" to automatically set all the other items on this menu. To get a higher frame rate in the game, just click the next-lowest setting here in Preset Details, continue play, and see how you like it. If you are an adventurous, technical person, you can configure the options individually as listed below. Terrain Detail: Controls the terrain level of detail "popping" while displaying outdoor terrain. Lower detail settings may increase your frame rate, and will increase the amount of terrain "popping" that you see. Render Depth: Controls how far you can see while displaying outdoor terrain. The higher the render depth, the farther you can see, but this may lower your frame rate. Object Complexity: Controls the detail level of powerup and robot models. If you set this lower, powerups and robots will appear with less detail at a distance, and your frame rate may increase. Specular Mapping: Turns on or off the specular lighting effect. This affects the shininess of walls and objects when light reflects from them. Turning this effect off may improve your frame rate. Fast Headlight: When you hit H for Headlight, the "Fast Headlight" takes much less CPU time but gives you a less physically accurate headlight. Turning this option off gives you a wider headlight that doesn't travel as far, and computationally is slower. Mirrored Surfaces: Turns on or off the mirrored surfaces in the game. If on, you can see the mirrored surfaces (such as on the top level of The Core multiplayer level). Dynamic Lighting: Turns on and off dynamic lighting made by players, robots, and weapons. Turning this option off has a good chance of increasing your frame rate, but may reduce the amount of light in the level. Fog: Turns fog on and off. Light Coronas: Turns on and off the coronas you see around lights. If you don't like the look of these, you can turn them off with this option. Procedural Textures: Lets you see animated procedural textures. (For example, the "bubbling" effect of the blue and red magnetic polarity switches of the Polaris multiplayer level.) If off, these surfaces will not animate, and you may get a better frame rate. Powerup Halos: Turns on and off the light halos around powerups. If you don't like the look of these, you can turn them off with this option. Scorch Marks: Toggles the scorch marks that are created by weapon fire. Weapon Effects: Toggles specific effects created by weapons such as blast rings and laser hits. SOUND MENU ---------- Sound Volume: Sets the volume of all sound in the game. Music Volume: Sets the volume of all the music in the game. Sound Quality: If set to "Low", uses 8-bit sounds that are faster for your computer to deal with. If set to "High", uses 16-bit sounds which may sound better, but take the computer longer to deal with. When in doubt, set this to "Normal". GENERAL SETTINGS MENU --------------------- Terrain Auto-leveling: Sets how much your ship tries to level itself while you fly around outdoors. Mine Auto-leveling: Sets how much your ship tries to level itself while you fly inside the mines. Missile View: When you fire a missile that has a camera view, this option sets the location (None, Left, or Right) of the view on the HUD. Mouse: If on, the mouse is enabled as a control device. If off, mouse movement and buttons will do nothing. Joystick: If on, the joystick (or other game controller) is enabled. If off, the joystick and joystick buttons will do nothing. HUD CUSTOMIZATION MENU ---------------------- This menu allows you to customize your HUD ("Heads Up Display") Configuration. You can set each option to "Graphic" (the default), "Text", or "None" to not display that item. If you find there's too much stuff on the HUD, try setting all these items to "Text". CONFIG MENU --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Keyboard Customization menu and the Joystick And Mouse Customization menu are virtually identical. Use these menus to change your keys, joystick buttons, and mouse buttons. To customize these, go to the appropriate menu, click one of the boxes to the right of the option you want to customize, then press the key or button you'd like to use to perform that function. If you would like two different keys to do the same thing, set the two boxes to the two keys you'd like. For instance, if you want both W and E to engage the afterburner, set the two boxes next to "Afterburner" to W and E. To reset all keys to their defaults, click the text "Reset To Default Settings". Here are actions on the Keyboard Configuration menu: Fire Primary: Fire your primary weapon. (You start with lasers.) Fire Secondary: Fire your secondary weapon. (You start with concussion missiles.) Fire Flare: Fire a flare to light up an area. Cycle Primary: Choose a different primary weapon. Each time you hit this key, you'll cycle along the list of weapons that you set on the "Weapon Selection Precedence" screen. Cycle Secondary: Choose a different secondary weapon, cycling along the list of secondary weapons. Forward: Move your ship forward. Reverse: Move your ship backward. Afterburner: Turn on afterburners for faster speed. Once you use up your afterburner fuel and let go of the Afterburner key, the Pyro-GL will rapidly replenish your afterburner fuel by using energy. Headlight: Turn on a headlight to light up the area ahead of you. There are two headlights you can configure; one will slow down your frame rate but project a wider headlight that doesn't travel as far. You can turn the fast headlight on and off in the "Detail Level Settings" menu. Pitch Up: Pitch the ship upward. Pitch Down: Pitch the ship downward. Turn Left: Turn the ship left. Turn Right: Turn the ship right. Toggle Bank: As long as you hold this key down, the Turn keys will cause the ship to bank left and right. Slide Left: Slide the ship to the left. Slide Right: Slide the ship to the right. Slide Up: Slide the ship up. Slide Down: Slide the ship down. The Joystick And Mouse Customization menu includes all these options plus several commands that can be defined by an axis. To define an axis for an action, click the box next to the action, then just move the axis. For instance, if you want the throttle to be controlled by moving the mouse's Y axis, click the box next to "Throttle", then move the mouse vertically. Clicking on the '?' button provides help and options to invert an axis or clear a binding. Throttle: The axis for moving forward and backward. Pitch: The axis for pitching up and down. Heading: The axis for turning left and right. Bank: The axis for banking (the roll of the ship). Slide Vertical: The axis for sliding up and down. Slide Horiz: The axis for sliding left and right. The Joystick and Mouse Configuration menu has an Adjust Settings button that allows you to set your joystick & mouse sensitivity, set force feedback options, and enable and disable your mouse and joystick. The Keyboard Configuration menu has an Adjust Settings button that allows you to set your keyboard ramping time. This specifies how quickly you start to turn when controlling the ship with the keyboard. It's recommended that you use the default setting. WEAPON CONFIGURATION MENU -------------------------------- This menu lets you configure how your Pyro-GL ship switches between weapons when (a) you hit the "Cycle Primary" or "Cycle Secondary" keys to cycle through your weapons; (b) when you run out of ammo with one weapon and the ship switches to another; and (c) when you pick up a new weapon. To configure the weapons' relative priorities, click on a weapon you want to move. A dialog will come up; click on a weapon in this dialog to switch the positions of the two weapons. Click on the 'X' button to disable or enable the selected weapon. Items at the top of the column have the lowest priority. For instance, if you want Homing Missiles to have priority over Frag Missiles, click "Homing" and then click on "Frag" in the dialog that pops up. "Frag" will now be listed higher in the column than "Homing". This sets Frag to have lower priority. Now, if you have Frag missiles armed and you run across your first Homing missile, you will auto-switch to the Homing missile. If you had set Homing missiles to be lower priority, then running across your first Homing missile would not trigger an auto-switch. PILOTS MENU ----------- You can define several different pilots in Descent 3 Demo 2. This lets several people play the same copy of the game while maintaining their own statistics and settings as well as their unique keyboard, joystick, and mouse custom keys. After clicking PILOTS from the main menu, the Choose Pilots screen appears, listing all pilots and giving you four options: Select: Click a pilot in the list then click Select to make that pilot active when you play a new game. Add: Add a new pilot to the list. Delete: Click a pilot in the list then click Delete to remove that pilot. Configure: Click a pilot in the list then click Configure to customize The keyboard, joystick, and mouse controls for that pilot. Click configure ship to customize that pilot's audio taunts and logo displayed on the Pyro-SE's wing (You can import your own .WAV files as audio taunts and .PCX and .TGA files as logos on this screen as well). From the Configure screen, you can also set the difficulty level from Trainee to Insane for each pilot. The trainee level features easier robot enemies. MULTIPLAYER MENU ---------------- See the file "Multiplayer Readme.txt" for all information on the multiplayer menu options, and on how to play a game in general. CREDITS MENU ------------ Shows you who made this great game. QUIT ---- Quits the game and returns you to your desktop. ______________________________ 9. MAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE ______________________________ Descent 3 Demo 2 will play great on some systems, and more slowly on others. The speed you achieve depends on your CPU speed and the amount of RAM in your computer. In general, of course, you'll get better performance with a faster CPU and more RAM. Assuming you can't run to the store and buy a maxed-out system, here are some ways you can improve the game's speed. 1. If you have a card that supports the Glide API, be sure Glide is selected instead of OpenGL or Direct3D, from the "Video" tab of the Setup window. 2. Turn your detail level to "Low" or "Medium". To do this: a. Press F2. b. Click "Detail Level Settings". c. Click the "Low" or "Medium" button. d. Click "OK". Then click "Done". 3. If the game is slow in the outside terrain, go to the Detail Level Settings menu (see #3 above) and reduce the Render Depth distance. 4. Reduce your screen resolution to 512x384. You can do this in the "Graphics Settings" menu (accessible from "Options" on the main menu). This may help in particular with cards using the 3Dfx Voodoo 1 chipset, and we have also seen improvement with several older cards that use the Direct3D API. 5. If the game is still too slow or jerky, try turning on the "low memory" or "super low memory" options. To do this: a. Double-click "Descent 3 Demo 2.exe". b. Click "Setup". c. Click "Misc". d. In the text field "Optional D3 Command Line Switches", type "-lowmem" or "-superlowmem" (without the quotes, and don't forget the dash) and click OK. e. Click OK, click Play, and play the game again. The -lowmem option will reduce the size of textures in the game, and the -superlowmem option will force all textures to an even smaller size. This will improve the ability of lower-end 3D cards to render, and the lower memory usage in main memory will improve general game speed on machines that are cramped for memory, regardless of the 3D card you use. 6. While playing the game, press the - key several times to reduce the area the game will take up on your screen. This may help with certain video cards. _______________________ 10. TROUBLESHOOTING _______________________ Q: All I do is bump into the wall! I'm frustrated! A: Relax. Hold down Z to back up a bit. This is our #1 tip for novice Descent pilots. You'll get a better perspective on the room and your situation. You can adjust the ship's auto-leveling if you press F2 and click "General Settings". Q: The robots keep killing me! They are too hard! A: In the pilot configuration menu, you can lower your difficulty level to "Trainee" for an easier experience. Q: My game is too slow! A: See "Maximizing Performance", above. Q: No, really! My game is still too slow! A: There are several factors that can make the game too slow. Possibly your computer simply doesn't have enough RAM, considering the 3D video board you are using. In particular, many 3D video boards' current Direct3D drivers are fairly early in their development cycle, and they choke if you have less than 64MB RAM. Some cards' Direct3D drivers actually seem to perform optimally with an amazing 128MB RAM. To work around this problem, try the Glide or OpenGL driver, if your card has one that works. Q: Help! I can't see! The game is too dark! A: First, adjust the brightness control on your monitor. You may also want to adjust the "Brightness" control in the Graphics Settings menu. You may need to use the Display control panel to change your card's brightness (also called gamma) setting -- this control panel will probably override any changes you attempt to make in Descent 3's Graphics Settings menu. Q: Transparent objects (& other things) draw wrong on my Voodoo card under Direct3D! A: Use Glide with Voodoo cards. Glide is faster and more bug-free than Direct3D on cards that use the 3Dfx Voodoo chipset. Q: I get a horrible sound problem where it plays part of one sound over and over and over! A: From Setup, click the "Audio" tab and choose DirectSound. Machines that have lots of memory should use the Software mixer for better performance, but if you don't have a ton of RAM, use DirectSound. Q: The sound effects play late! A: This is a known problem under Windows NT with DirectX 3. It's not something we can fix. Sorry. Q: My ship spins around and around when I'm not touching the controls! A: Adjust the trim controls on your joystick. Also calibrate your joystick in the Descent 3 Demo 2 Launcher. If these steps don't work and you have a Thrustmaster joystick, there is a "centering utility" available that can fix this problem. Visit the Thrustmaster web page at http://www.thrustmaster.com. Q: When I am in piggyback observer mode in multiplayer, the display is very jerky! A: Piggyback mode only displays a frame each time you receive a position update packet from the player you are piggybacking. The frequency of update packets determines the speed of the observer piggyback display. Q: Network play is jerky and slow! A: Set packets per second to 5. Try a different type of game: change to peer-peer, or change to client-server. Make sure the server is a fast machine that experiences a good frame rate while playing, or try using a dedicated server. If some clients don't have lots of RAM, try playing "The Core" multiplayer level, which is fairly small. (See the Multiplayer Readme.txt file for more information.) Q: The game crashes on my machine! A: If you've found a serious bug, chances are someone else has also found it and we've already fixed it. Use the Auto-Update feature or visit our web site (http://www.outrage.com) to get the latest version. If that doesn't fix it, see the Customer Service and Reporting Bugs sections below. Q: My music stops in the middle of the level. What should I do? A: Go into the options menu by pressing F2 from within the game. Go to Sound Menu and lower you music slider all the way to 0. Exit the menu by pressing DONE or the Esc key. Return to the Sound Menu and now increase the music slider back to 100. This should restore the music in the game. __________________________________ 11. INTERPLAY CUSTOMER SERVICE __________________________________ If you need to talk to someone immediately, call us at (949) 553-6678 Monday through Friday between 8:00AM-5:45PM, Pacific Standard Time with 24 hours, 7 days a week support available through the use of our automated wizard. Please have the above information ready when you call. This will help us answer your question in the shortest possible time. When you call you will initially be connected with our automated wizard. For information pertaining to your specific title, press "1" on the main menu and listen carefully to all prompts. All titles are listed alphabetically. After you have selected your title, the most common difficulties will be listed. If the difficulty you are having is not listed or you need additional assistance, you may press "0" on your games main menu, and you will be transferred to a Technical Support Representative. No hints or codes are available from this line. Telephone: (949) 553-6678 Fax: (949) 252-2820 Attn: Customer Service Internet E-mail: support@interplay.com World Wide Web: http://www.interplay.com BBS Telnet: bbs.interplay.com BBS Modem: (949) 252-2822 America Online: E-mail IPTECH CompuServe: GO GAMBPUB or E-mail 76702,1342 FTP: ftp.interplay.com Mail: Interplay Customer Service 16815 Von Karman Irvine, CA 92606 FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE WITHIN THE UK AND EUROPE: Write to: Customer Support Interplay Productions, Ltd. Harleyford Manor Harleyford Henley Road Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 2DX ENGLAND tel: +44 (0) 1628 423723 Fax: +44 (0) 1628 487752 Email: Europe@interplay.com ______________________ 12. REPORTING BUGS ______________________ If you can't get Descent 3 Demo 2 working on your system, double-check all the wonderfully helpful information in the "Troubleshooting" section, above. If every piece of software works on your computer except for Descent 3, then try Interplay customer service, above. Before reporting a bug, you should make sure you have the latest version of the game, because the bug you've found may already be fixed. Use Descent 3's Auto-Update feature or visit our web site (http://www.outrage.com) to get an update patch if one is available. If you would like to report a bug, send e-mail to d3bugs@outrage.com. In your e-mail, please report the following: 1. What product and version (in this case, "Descent 3 Demo 2 Version 1.0"). The version number is shown in the lower-right corner of the main menu screen. 2. What speed and type of CPU you have (example: "Pentium II at 300MHz") 3. What operating system you have (example: "Windows 98") 4. How much RAM you have (example: 128MB) 5. If this is a multiplayer bug, mention your network configuration and whether you are behind a firewall. 6. List the bug with any information you think is relevant. _____________________ 13. SPECIAL THANKS _____________________ Thanks to everyone who helped, including: Volition, Inc. Leaping Lizard Software Sonic Foundry Chris Hecker Brian Hook Michael Gold, Doug Rogers, & Sim Dietrich Howard Jacob & Eddie Banks Nora Belavic Zod For sending us test hardware: 3Dfx AMD ATI Canopus Creative Labs Intel MadCatz Matrox Microsoft NEC nVidia S3 Wicked3D ___________________ 14. 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