Welcome to Dukes of Hazzard (TM): Racing for Home
We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we've enjoyed
making it for you.
SouthPeak Interactive
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Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home is a production of
Dogbone Productions Inc. for SouthPeak Interactive LLC.
Copyright (c) 2000 SouthPeak Interactive LLC. All Rights Reserved.
SouthPeak Interactive and the SouthPeak Interactive logo are
trademarks or registered trademarks of SouthPeak Interactive LLC.
(r) indicates U.S.A. registration. Other brand or product names are
the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
DUKES OF HAZZARD, characters, names and all related indicia are
trademarks of Warner Bros. (c) 2000.
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CONTENTS
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I. System Requirements
II. Installation
III. General Game Issues
IV. Troubleshooting
V. DirectX Information
VI. Contact Information
I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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-233 MHz Pentium II processor
-Windows(r) 95/98
-32Meg of RAM
-3D accelerator with 8MB of VRAM
-(Supports most major 3D acceleration cards).
-DirectX compatible Sound card
-130MB of free disk space
-8X CD-ROM
-Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
-Internet/Network Play: Properly Configured TCP/IP, IPX connection at 28.8 kbps or faster.
II. INSTALLATION
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-Insert the CD-ROM labeled 'Dukes of Hazzard: Racing For Home' Disk 1 into
your CD-ROM drive, choose 'Install', and follow the onscreen instructions.
If your autorun is disabled, find the autorun.exe application in the root
of Disk 1 and double click to launch the Installer.
-After installing Dukes of Hazzard, you will have options for installing DirectX 7.0.
If you do not have DirectX installed, install DirectX 7.0 when prompted during
the installation process. If you obtain a newer version of DirectX, it is
recommended that you use that.
III. GENERAL GAME ISSUES
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-The alt-tab key combination is known to cause problems with Dukes of Hazzard.
Do not use this feature in either the menus or the game as the product will
not restore properly once minimized.
-On some machines the user may experience black screens when exiting Dukes of Hazzard.
If this error occurs please change your color palette to 16-bit or higher.
To do this, simply right click on your desktop and choose 'Properties'. Next, select
the 'Settings' tab and changes 'Colors' to 'High Color (16 bit)' or greater.
IV. Troubleshooting
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-If you use a 3D Accelerator board and your drivers are outdated,
you may experience problems.
Here is a List of some of the 3D Accelerator Manufactures and
their web pages. You should be able to download updated drivers
from these Pages.
Manufacturer Web-Page
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3DFX www.3dfx.com
3Dlabs www.3dlabs.com
nVidia www.nvidia.com
ATI Technologies www.atitech.com
Creative Labs www.creaf.com
Guillemot www.guillemot.com
Matrox www.matrox.com
Miro Media www.miro.de
Number Nine www.nine.com
Orchid Technology www.orchid.com
S3 or Diamond Multimedia www.s3.com
VI. DirectX INFORMATION
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-What is DirectX?
Microsoft's DirectX is a set of software components and drivers designed
to create faster hardware performance in Windows based applications. DirectX
is comprised of five components: DirectDraw, DirectInput, DirectPlay, DirectSound,
and Direct3D. Along with these components, DirectX includes a set of compatible
drivers for the computer's video and sound cards along with input devices such
as mice, joysticks and game pads.
When installing Dukes of Hazzard, the program checks to see whether DirectX is
installed on your system. If the installer does not detect a standard, current set
of DirectX drivers, it installs new ones. However, a handful of video and sound cards
use DirectX drivers which do not conform to Microsoft standards. These non-standard
drivers cannot be detected during the Dukes of Hazzard installation, and new
drivers may be installed in their place. The drivers Dukes of Hazzard installs
may not work with such hardware and the end result may be that Dukes of Hazzard
fails to load. This may be true even if you have used other DirectX-based products
in the past.
-If Dukes of Hazzard will not run on you computer due to DirectX problems,
you may be able to correct the problem by following these steps:
1. Update your hardware drivers
IMPORTANT: If you have never updated your drivers before, you may want to
consult your system/hardware vendor and get their recommendation. If you
choose to update the drivers yourself, follow the installation instructions
provided with the driver very carefully.
-Notes on obtaining drivers
Hardware manufacturers post new drivers on their web sites regularly that
have enhanced performance and stability. Please check with your hardware
manufacturer for an update as some difficulties may be related to drivers.
2 Reinstall DirectX
-Manually Installing DirectX
1. Close all applications and save your data.
2. Click on 'Start' and select 'Run'
3. In the 'Run' box type in d:\Dohdisk1\directx\dxsetup
(Note: Substitute d:\ for the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.)
4. Select 'OK', this will begin the DirectX install.
-If you need to restore your display or audio drivers after installing DirectX:
1. Close all applications and save your data.
2. Bring up the control panel and click the Start button. Then click Settings. Then
click Control Panel.
3. Bring up the DirectX Setup applet. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon. Click
DirectX Drivers. Click the Add/Remove button.
4. Click the "Restore Audio drivers" button if you want to restore your audio drivers,
or click the "Restore Display drivers" button if you want to restore your display drivers.
You can only restore one driver at a time, not both.
5. Press "OK" to restart your computer.
Note: If DirectX did not install new display or audio drivers (or if you have already
restored them), then pressing the "Restore Audio drivers" or "Restore Display drivers"
button will just result in a dialogue that says "DirectX setup has completed successfully."
You can then press the other button, or exit.
V. CONTACT INFORMATION
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Please visit SouthPeak Interactive's web site at http://www.southpeak.com
to obtain additional information or contact our Technical Support team.
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We will be able to help you more quickly if you have the following
information available when you contact us:
- The brand name of your computer
- The type of CPU and its operating speed
(e.g. Pentium-166mhz)
- The operating system and version
(e.g.. Windows 95)
- The amount of RAM in your computer
- The brand name and model of sound card in your computer
- The brand name and model of video card in your computer
- Speed of CD-ROM Drive
- The amount of video memory (VRAM) in your computer