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- IndyCar Racing II Demo Read-Me
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- ***** How to order the Full Version of IndyCar Racing II:
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- INDYCAR RACING II
- Available Now
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- Please visit your local software retailer, or call the
- following numbers to order:
- United States : 1-800-836-1829
- International (UK) : 0171-368-2255 (Country Code 44)
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- ***** What the Full Version Contains:
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- 15 Tracks (5 Speedways, 10 Road Courses)
- The IndyCar II Paintshop (Paint your own car!)
- Two-player Racing Via Modem
- Three Levels of Car Damage
- Championship Season Racing
- Fully Enabled Garage
- Fully Enabled Replays
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- ***** Important IndyCar Racing II Demo Features:
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- The Setup Program
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- Setup Sound Card -- Automatic
- 1. Select Setup Sound Card - Automatic from the menu.
- 2. A warning will appear. Read it, and then choose Continue With
- Automatic Setup. (If you do not wish to continue, choose Return to
- Main Menu and choose Setup Sound Card - Manual. See instructions
- below.)
- 3. The Setup Program will try to automatically detect your sound card setup.
- If it is successful, choose Accept Current Values and Proceed to test.
- 4. If you hear digital sound, choose Return to Main Menu. If you do not,
- choose Test Digital Sound Again or Return to Main Menu and choose
- Setup Sound Card - Manual.
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- Setup Sound Card -- Manual
- 1. Select Setup Sound Card -Manual from the menu.
- 2. Choose Change Digital Sound.
- 3. Choose your digital sound card from the list and press <ENTER>
- 4. If you choose Continue with Confirmation, Setup will try to detect
- your sound card settings. If confirmation fails, select the sound
- card again and choose Skip Confirmation. If the settings are
- incorrect, you may change the settings by selecting the menu options.
- 5. Choose Test Digital Sound. If you hear sound, your setup is correct.
- If you do not, you must select another card or enter different
- setup values.
- 6. Choose Return to Main Menu.
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- Install UniVBE driver
- Select this option if you intend to run SVGA mode. The UniVBE
- driver may increase frame rate in IndyCar Racing II for certain
- graphics cards. UniVBE is not compatible with all graphics card.
- If UniVBE is not successfully installed or the game locks Uninstall
- the UniVBE driver.
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- Uninstall UniVBE driver
- Select this option to uninstall the UniVBE driver. If UniVBE is
- not successfully installed or the game locks when using UniVBE,
- you should select this option. It is not necessary to use UniVBE
- to run SVGA mode.
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- Make a Bootable Floppy
- Choose Make a Bootable Floppy if you have any difficulties running
- IndyCar Racing II. Follow directions on screen to create the
- bootable floppy. If you use a bootable floppy to run the game,
- we highly recommend that you select Complete Installation when
- installing the game.
- 1. Insert a blank diskette in drive A: (You may not use drive B:).
- 2. Choose Make a Bootable Floppy from the menu and press <ENTER>.
- 3. Follow the on-screen prompts.
- 4. To use the Bootable Floppy disk, you must restart the computer
- with the disk in the A: drive.
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- View Readme File
- Choose View README File to read important update information.
- Exit To DOS
- Choose Exit to DOS to leave the Setup program.
- Starting IndyCar Racing II DEMO
- 1. Insert the IndyCar Racing II CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
- (Not necessary if you chose the Complete Installation option.)
- 2. From your hard drive, type CD\ICR2DEMO <ENTER> (If you did not accept
- the default directory when installing, substitute the name of the
- directory you specified.)
- 3. Type INDYCAR <ENTER> to start VGA mode - or -
- Type INDYCAR -H <ENTER> to start SVGA mode. Be sure to type the
- space and the dash before the "H". You must have a VESA driver
- loaded to run SVGA. See the Troubleshooting section for details.
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- You may also start the demo with the following switches (just like the
- "INDYCAR -H <ENTER>" above.
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- -h (runs IndyCar Racing II in high-resolution SVGA graphics)
- -f (Use SoundBlaster FM sound)
- -j (Use notebook gameport or Genovation)
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- How to Setup the Controls
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- From the Main Menu, use the keyboard arrow keys to scroll down to the
- OPTIONS menu and press <enter>.
- Choose the CONTROLS menu and press <enter>.
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- Choose CALIBRATE JOYSTICK-1, if you were not asked to do so when
- you started the game. Move the joystick forward, backward, left and
- right, release it, then press <ENTER>.
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- Choose SET CONTROLS and press <enter>. You will notice a list of
- functions that can be assigned to your controller. Highlight an option
- and press <ENTER>. Assign the control by moving your joystick, pressing
- a joystick button, or pressing a keyboard key. The menu will return.
- Repeat for all controls.
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- The number of functions that you will be able to assign to the joystick
- is limited to the type of controller you are using. If you are using a
- standard 2-button joystick then we would suggest that you set one of the
- buttons to ACCELERATION and the other button to BRAKING. The STEERING
- should be assigned to the LEFT/RIGHT or X-AXIS movement on the joystick.
- For REVERSE we suggest simply pulling the joystick back.
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- Start Racing
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- Once you are in the game and have set up your controls you will most
- likely want to start racing. The demo release contains the SINGLE RACE
- and PRESEASON TESTING modes. You can choose these modes at the main menu.
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- The demo is limited to the ARCADE damage setting and cannot be changed.
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- Spin Recovery: The spin recovery feature is on by default. You can turn
- this feature off in the DRIVING AIDS menu.
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- Driving Views: You can cycle through different views of the car while
- driving by pressing the F10 key.
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- Information Boxes : Additional information boxes may be called up by use
- of the following function keys:
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- F1 Lap Information - Useful info about position and laps completed.
- F2 Standings - up-to-date race standings.
- F3 Fuels - Shows current fuel and estimated laps.
- F4 Tires - Shows tire temperature.
- F5 Tires - This box shows tire pressure and condition. Space to
- toggle through tires.
- F7 Wings - Too much drag at Michigan? Tell your pit crew to lower
- those wings.
- F8 Wheel Stagger - Tell your pit crew how to stagger your tires.
- F9 Pit radio - Know what your pit crew is planning at a glance.
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- NOTE: The demo does not allow you to change your settings from the F-key
- boxes. This feature is enabled in the full version.
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- Graphics: Graphics and Textures can be turned on and off by pressing
- the 1-9 number keys while driving. These may also be adjusted from the
- OPTIONS/GRAPHICS menu. Turning off graphics will increase your frame
- rate significantly.
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- Pitting: Pitting is not enabled in the demo.
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- Troubleshooting:
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- If the highlight on the menu scrolls up or down by itself, you will need
- to calibrate your joystick. At the main menu, press the "J" key to turn
- the joystick off. Then select OPTIONS/CONTROLS/CALIBRATE JOYSTICK #1.
- Follow instructions above for calibrating.
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- AWE 32: If you are using an AWE 32 you may encounter problems with the
- autodetect sound installation. If this should happen, reboot and use
- manual setup.
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- Memory Issues: If you have trouble setting up your sound during install,
- use the Create Boot Disk option from the setup menu and boot from that
- disk. If you encounter problems creating a boot disk from Windows95,
- restart in MS-DOS mode and run the setup again.
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- Graphics Problems: If you are having graphics problems, try installing
- the UNIVBE driver from the setup menu. Due to differences in video cards
- across systems, you may also attain increased graphics performance by
- not installing the UNIVBE driver from your system.
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- To improve frame rate:
- 1. Run in VGA mode.
- 2. Reduce the number of opponents you race against in the
- OPTIONS/OPPONENTS menu.
- 3. Reduce the number of opponents seen and heard in the OPTIONS/OPPONENTS
- menu.
- 4. Turn off graphics options in the OPTIONS/GRAPHICS menu.
- 5. Start the game by typing INDYCAR -F <enter> to use FM sound.
- 6. Make sure your TURBO button is on (if your computer has one.)
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- Minimum Requirements:
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- For VGA version
- 486-DX 33MHz
- 8 MB of RAM
- VGA graphics card and VGA monitor
- Recommended: 486-DX2 66MHZ and 8 MB of RAM.
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- For SVGA version
- 486-DX2 66MHz
- 8 MB of RAM
- SVGA graphics card and SVGA monitor
- Recommended: 60MHz Pentium, 16 MB of RAM, and VLB or PCI video card.
- Running with a boot disk or a clean boot is recommended for 486-DX/33
- systems with 8 MB of RAM or 486-DX2/66 systems with 8 MB of RAM
- running SVGA mode for better frame rate performance. Memory managers
- could hinder overall performance of the game.
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