--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHASE ACE 2 from Space Time Foam October 1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document describes the basics of Chase Ace 2 and some technical support issues. How to play ----------- Fly your spaceship around on the level and shoot at everything that shoots at you. Its as simple as that. The interface in Chase Ace has a help function describing all the menuitems. The help is activated by pressing F1. Default Controls: ----------------- Red player: Forward: CURSOR UP Reverse: CURSOR DOWN Turn left CURSOR LEFT Turn right: CURSOR RIGHT Fire: CTRL Turbo: SHIFT Change weapon: ' Strafe: ENTER Blue player: Forward: E Reverse: D Turn left S Turn right: F Fire: A Turbo: Q Change weapon: 1 Strafe: TAB Green player: Forward: o Reverse: l Turn left k Turn right: : Fire: j Turbo: u Change weapon: 7 Strafe: m If you cannot find all the keys due to keyboard layout differences you can go to the keyboard configuration menu and remap the controls Additional controls: F1: Help F2: Music on/off F3: Sound on/off F4: Adaptive zoom mode F5: Display framerate on/off F6: Playernames on/off toggle (only in net games) F7: Display helperarrows on/off (points at off screen enemies) F8: Sound volume down F9: Sound volume up F10: Music volume down F11: Music volume up F12: Display map on/off Scroll Lock: Screendump Direct X -------- Chase Ace 2 Demo requires Microsoft DirectX 5.0 or newer. You can download the latest directX drivers at http://www.chaseace.com or at http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp System requirements ------------------- Pentium 200 mhz Windows 95, 98 or 2000 35 mb free harddisk space 32 mb ram Svga graphicscard capable of running 640x480 8bit. Sound card (optional) Joystick/gamepad (optional) Tech issues ----------- Playing in higher resolutions Chase Ace can be run in higher resolutions by giving command line parameters in your shortcut. Available resolutions: "chase ace 2 demo.exe -800" 800x600 "chase ace 2 demo.exe -1024" 1024x768 "chase ace 2 demo.exe -1280" 1280x1024 "chase ace 2 demo.exe -1600" 1600x1200 If you want to try custom resolutions not mentioned here, you can "-R" followed by the resolution. This can be usefull for dual screen setups where you want to use both screens for playing. This has not been tested, so use it at your own risk. Problems -------- Keyboard not responding properly in 2 player mode: On some systems combinations of keys can cause the computer do halt and beep, or just not respond. Try reconfigureing one of the players until a combination that works is found. Chase Ace wont start: If your DirectX seems to be okay, you have done the standard rebooting stuff and Chase Ace still refuses to start, tell us. Email your problems to support@chaseace.com and describe the symptoms. If Chase Ace reaches the loading splash screen, tell us at which stage the game crashes. Jerking and nonsmooth performance: If you have to many programs running while running Chase Ace 2 you might experience performance loss or crashes (ICQ is a bugger!) If you experience really bad performance (2-6 frames pr. sec.) in the interface after finishing or exiting a game, please let us know. Error message when exiting Chase Ace: This has known to happen on win 98 or 2000 systems, and very rare on win 95 systems. No harm is done. If Chase Ace crashes one way or the other, restart your system before attempting to launch Chase Ace again (or any other game). Non terminated DirectX processes can be lurking in the background making life hard for newly started programs. Contact information ------------------- Check out the Chase Ace 2 web page for additional spaceships, levels, courses, enemies and general news about Chase Ace 2. www.chaseace.com Technical support: Go to chaseace.com or email support@chaseace.com If you contact us with problems, make sure to describe what kind of computer and hardware you are running CA2 on and what version of Windows.