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Secret Service: In Harm’s Way – Windows Readme – English

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Secret Service: In Harm's Way

Version 10/15/2001
Readme File

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About This Document:

This document contains last-minute information about Secret Service: In Harm's Way, including questions you may have concerning the game or your computer. If you have a question, check to see if it is addressed here first:
http://www.activisionvalue.com/ or
http://www.funlabs.com/
you may save yourself a call to Technical Support.
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I. KEY FEATURES OF THE GAME
II. MINIMUM & RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
III. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES
IV. 3D HARDWARE ISSUES
V. CREDITS
VI. CONTACTS AND HELP

I. KEY FEATURES OF THE GAME:
- Over 100 different characters
- Explore large levels, governed by realistic physics laws:
- shoot lights to mask your position and movements, confusing the enemies
- use furniture as cover against enemy gunfire
- over 16 different materials with their physical properties affecting bullet behavior
- 26 different weapons to defend freedom with, giving you many tactical opportunities in single- and multi-player games
- 16 single player realistic levels with accurate architectural features
- Over 24 multiplayer levels to compete with your friends over Local Area Network and Internet
- Face the enemy alone or command your own team in the heat of battle
- Complex bullet modelling - damage taken by target varies with impact speed and speed decreases with distance and obstacles penetrated
- Take on your friends in deathmatch or team oriented games
- Lips and eyelid movements to incrase lifelike expresions
- Rich environment sounds with complete DirectX, Aureal 3D, EAX 2 and EAX 3 support (compatible sound card required)
- Motion captured character movements
- Feature-rich, in-house developed 3D engine

II. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PENTIUM2 CLASS PROCESSOR, 333MHZ
64 MB RAM ON WINDOWS 95/98; 128 MB RAM ON WINDOWS ME/2000/XP
4 MB AGP 3D HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WITH DIRECT 3D SUPPORT
HIGH COLOR GRAPHICS (16 BIT)
4X CD-ROM
MOUSE
KEYBOARD
56K MODEM OR LAN FOR MULTIPLAYER
450MB FREE HARD DRIVE SPACE*
DIRECTX COMPATIBLE SOUND CARD
WINDOWS 95/98/ME/2000/XP OPERATING SYSTEM
DIRECTX 8a OR HIGHER

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PENTIUM3 CLASS PROCESSOR, 700MHZ
128 MB RAM ON WINDOWS 95/98; 256 MB RAM ON WINDOWS ME/2000/XP
32 MB AGP 3D HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WITH DIRECT 3D SUPPORT
HIGH COLOR GRAPHICS (32 BIT)
8X CD-ROM OR HIGHER
WHEEL MOUSE
KEYBOARD
56K MODEM OR LAN FOR MULTIPLAYER
450MB FREE HARD DRIVE SPACE*
DIRECTX HARDWARE ACCELERATED SOUND CARD (EAX RECOMMENDED)
WINDOWS 95/98/ME/2000/XP OPERATING SYSTEM
DIRECTX 8a OR HIGHER

* Windows Swap file not included

III. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES

WARNING: Please make sure that Secret Service: In Harm's Way CD is inserted in your CD-ROM drive before launching the game. You can play the Secret Service: In Harm's Way game only if the Secret Service: In Harm's Way CD is in drive.
WARNING: On Windows95 OSR2 make sure you have installed the Winsock2 update from Microsoft web page on http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wuadmintools/s_wunetworkingtools/w95sockets2/
Winsock2 is trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

DRIVER ISSUES
Make sure you've installed DirectX 8.0a or later on your computer. The latest version of DirectX (DX80a as of 10/15/2001) is included on the Secret Service: In Harm's Way CD in the 'DirectX8' folder.
Make sure you have installed the most recent drivers for all your hardware before playing Secret Service: In Harm's Way.

SOUND PROBLEMS
Check SOUND OPTIONS in OPTIONS MENU.

VIEW AVI FILM SEQUENCES
The Game Intro has short movie sequences. If you are having trouble playing them (no sound or no image) please make sure you have Windows Media Player ver 6.4 or above installed on your computer.

IV. 3D HARDWARE ISSUES

Make sure that you have the DirectX8.0a installed on your computer.
You can download DirectX8.0a from: http://www.microsoft.com/directx/
Make sure that you have the latest chipset driver for your video board.
You can download the latest driver from the chipset manufacturer web site:
http://www.3dfx.com/
http://www.3dlabs.com/
http://www.ati.com/
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/
http://www.matrox.com/
http://www.nvidia.com/
http://www.powervr.com/
http://www.s3.com/

Low frame rate problem:
- If the frame rate is low when shooting or using the flash light uncheck dynamic lights from "Menu On -> Options -> Settings -> Dynamical Lights".
- Set the Character L.O.D. on "Very Low" from "Menu On -> Options -> Settings -> Character L.O.D.". This will decrease the polygon count on characters and will save CPU and Video board processing time.
- Uncheck Detailed Sky from "Menu On -> Options -> Settings -> Detailed Sky". This will save CPU/Video board processing time.
- Check triple buffered from "Menu On -> Options -> Video -> Triple Buffered". Checking triple buffered will force the game to use less video memory for the textures. Also this will show result only on older video boards that are always synchronized with the video refresh.
- Uncheck Detail Texture from "Menu On -> Options -> Settings -> Detail Textures" This will save video card processing time. We recommand to check this only with the video cards from "Category III - Video Boards for the Best Performance"
- Uncheck Level lightmap from "Menu On -> Options -> Settings -> Level lightmap" This will save video card processing time and will avoid on some older video board to draw the entire scene twice.

Overclocking issue:
Overclocking video card at a clock and / or bus speed that is beyond the manufacturer specifications can cause Secret Service
to frequently freeze or crash. We recommend not to use CPU or video board overclocking.

Hardware Transforming & Lighting:
Secret Service use Hardware Transforming & Lighting (T&L) technique. T&L can seriously enhance the game performances.

Before changing the video board make sure that you have set the video display on default settings.
"Menu On -> Options -> Video -> Default Settings"

ALT-TAB issue:
The Secret Service game support Alt-Tab switching. We recommended not to abuse it though.

Intro Movies:
If you experience long black screens when launching the game instead of the intro movies run the game with "-nointro"
parameter. Assuming that the installation folder is "c:\Program Files\Activision Value\Secret Service" launch the
game with "c:\Program Files\Activision Value\Secret Service\Bin\Game.exe -nointro".

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Category I - Video Boards for Acceptable Performance
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1. 3DFX Voodoo2
98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.1151 (English)

Suggestion: Disable dynamical lights & detail textures

2. 3DFX Voodoo Banshee
98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.1222 (English)

Suggestion: Disable detail textures

3. ATI XPERT 98 AGP (English)
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2647 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English)

Suggestion: Disable lightmap & detail textures

4. INTEL 740
98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.2719 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.01.00.1404 (English)

Suggestion: Disable detail textures

5. INTEL 815
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2843 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.2843 (English)

Suggestion: Disable detail textures

6. MATROX G200
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2730 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2180.3711 (English)

Suggestion: Disable detail textures

7. NVIDIA Riva 128 Agp
98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.0337 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.11.01.0337 (English)

Suggestion: Disable detail textures

8. NVIDIA Vanta
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

Suggestion: Disable detail textures

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Category II - Video Boards for Average Performance
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1. 3DFX Voodoo 3
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English)

Suggestion: On Windows 2000 driver the game will return an error message if the triple buffer is on. We recommend to disable
triple buffer support. Uncheck "Menu On -> Options -> Video -> Triple Buffered"

2. 3DLABS Oxygen VX1
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2107 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0001 (English)

3. 3DLABS Oxygen GVX1
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2107 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.1620 (English)

4. ATI Rage 128 Pro (Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro)
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7078 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.0192 (English)

5. ATI Magnum Rage 128 (Magnum/Xpert128/X99/Xpert2000)
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7078 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.0192 (English)

6. NVIDIA Tnt1
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

7. NVIDIA Tnt2 M64
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

8. NVIDIA Tnt2 Ultra
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

9. NVIDIA Tnt2 Pro
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

10. S3 Savage 4
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.8228 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 05.12.01.8011 (English)

11. S3 Savage 2000
Driver Version: 4.12.01.9015 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.12.01.9008 (English)

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Category III - Video Boards for the Best Performance
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1. 3DFX Voodoo 4
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English)

2. 3DFX Voodoo 5
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English)

3. ATI Radeon
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7075 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.3102 (English)

4. MATROX G400
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.1810 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.12.01.1520 (English)

5. MATROX G450
98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2010 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 5.12.01.1520 (English)

6. NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

7. NVIDIA GeForce MX
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

8. NVIDIA GeForce 2 Gts
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

9. NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ultra
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English)

10. POWERVR Kyro 1
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.4162 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.4162 (English)

11. POWERVR Kyro 2
98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.4162 (English)
W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.4162 (English)

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Category IV - Unsupported (old Video Boards)
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1. 3DFX Voodoo Rush AT25 + (Dual Board)
Driver Version: 4.10.01.2073 (English)