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For the latest information about DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN please visit: www.ubisoft.com www.dragonriders-game.com Game patches may be made available via these websites. LAST MINUTE DOCUMENTATION 27/02/2001 The following text contains information regarding DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN that could not be included in the printed manual. INSTALLATION ISSUES If after installing DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN, the game is having difficulty detecting your 3D card please verify you've done the following: 1. Installed the latest version of DirectX 8.0 from the DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN Installation disc. 2. Install the latest video drivers for your video card. These can usually be obtained from the video card manufacturer's website. If after doing these two steps you are still having problems we recommend you upgrade your operating System to Windows98. If you are having difficulty setting up DirectX 8.0 after installing DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN please do the following. 1. Insert the installation disc in to your CD-ROM drive. 2. Either select "Install DirectX 8" or go to your CD-ROM drive from Windows Explorer and double click "starter.exe". Then you will be able to select "Install DirectX 8". Additionally, you may point your browser to Microsoft's DirectX download web site at: www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp GRAPHICS ISSUES While every effort has been made to ensure DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN works with the largest possible number of graphics cards, problems may occur with particular (and mainly older) cards and cards that have not been tested. DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN utilises a number of advanced graphics effects (such as character skinning and shadows). Certain graphics cards may not be capable of correctly displaying these effects and may display the effect as corruption. If you do have any trouble with your graphics display then you can alter the driver used by your card in the options menu of the game. Any driver that is not supported by your graphics card will be greyed out. If you experience any graphical problems, please make sure that you have DirectX 8 and the latest graphics drivers for your graphics card installed. The latest drivers for your graphics card should be available from the manufacturer via their web site. The following graphics cards / chipsets have been tested with DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN with no recorded problems. This list may not include all the graphics cards / chipsets that work with DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. Gforce 2 MX Gforce 2 MX (TnL) Gforce 2 GTS ATI Radeon DDR ATI Radeon DDR (TnL) Savage 4 Matrox G200 Matrox G400 Although every effort has been made to test different graphics cards that use the same chipset, it is possible that a certain cards incorporating an allegedly "working" chipset may function incorrectly when used with DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. If this is the case, you should ensure that the latest drivers intended for specific use with your card are installed. If DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN still does not function correctly, you may be able to obtain reference drivers for you chipset from the chipset manufacturer. These drivers may work instead. 3D CARD DRIVERS AND MANUFACTURERS Make sure that you have the latest drivers from the manufacturer of your video card. Many video issues will be resolved if you install your video card's latest drivers. Please contact your video card manufacturer for updated drivers or install the latest reference drivers for your video board. Listed below are some common video card manufacturers' Web sites : 3dfx Interactive - http://www.3dfx.com/ 3Dlabs - http://www.3dlabs.com/ AccelGraphics - http://www.accelgraphics.com/ Asus - http://www.asus.com/ ATI - http://support.atitech.ca/ Aztech Labs - http://www.aztechlabs.com/ Canopus - http://www.canopuscorp.com/ Creative Labs - http://www.creativelabs.com/ Diamond Multimedia - http://www.diamondmm.com/ Elsa Technology - http://www.elsa.de/ Gateway 2000 - http://www.gw2k.com/ Guillemot - http://www.guillemot.com/ Hercules (see Guillemot) - http://www.guillemot.com/ I/O Magic - http://www.iomagic.com/ Intergraph (see 3Dlabs) - http://www.3dlabs.com/ Jaton - http://www.jaton.com/ Leadtek - http://www.leadtek.com/ Matrox - http://www.matrox.com/ Number Nine - http://www.nine.com/ NVIDIA - http://www.nvidia.com/ Orchid (see Diamond Multimedia) -- http://www.diamondmm.com/ S3 Incorporated - http://www.s3.com/ Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS) - http://www.sis.com.tw/ ST Microelectronics - http://www.kyro.st.com/ STB (see 3dfx Interactive) - http://www.3dfx.com/ VideoLogic - http://www.videologic.com/ SOUND CARD ISSUES Although every effort has been made to test different sound cards that use the same chipset, it is possible that a certain cards incorporating an allegedly "working" chipset may function incorrectly when used with DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. If this is the case, you should ensure that the latest drivers intended for specific use with your card are installed. If DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN still does not function correctly, you may be able to obtain reference drivers for you chipset from the chipset manufacturer. These drivers may work instead. Here is list of tested and working sound cards. Sound Blaster 16 Sound Blaster Live Sound Blaster PCI 128 SB Ensoniq PCI If you experience difficulites with the sound within the game try changing the driver profiles in the sound options menu. Those driver types are listed below. Aureal A3D DirectSound Hardware Support DirectSound Software Emulation DirectSound 7+ Soft. - Full HRTF DirectSound 7+ Soft. - Light HRTF DirectSound 7+ Soft. - Pan Creative Labs EAX Creative Labs EAX2 Miles Fast 2D *RAD GAME Tools RSX SPEED ISSUES Owing to the graphical intensity of DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN you can alter the graphical performance of the game in the video options menu. There are three basic settings. High detail - Low performance (Good for high speed machines) Medium Detail - Medium performance (Average setting) Low Detail - High performance (Good for slower machines) GENERAL SPEED ISSUES DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN is a large and complex game and will work better on more powerful computers. There are a number of ways to speed up performance on your computer. Correct Setup Make sure that your PC is correctly setup and functioning properly. Make sure all drivers for all hardware are installed and functioning. If your drives support DMA access make sure this is activated. Make sure that you have plenty of disk space and that the hard disk is defragmented. Background Applications Make sure that you have as few programs as possible running at the same time as DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. Running other programs can seriously affect the performance of DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. RAM The more RAM you have in your computer, the better. The game can be played perfectly reasonably on a 64 Megabyte computer but installing more RAM will will improve the performance of DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. If you have 128 Megabytes of RAM in your computer, installing more memory should have a negligible effect on performance. Graphics Card Installing a modern, Direct 3D compatible graphics card should result in improved performance. All the cards on the compatible list will work well, but more modern cards should be faster. Processor Installing a faster processor should increase the performance of DRAGONRIDERS - CHRONICLES OF PERN. Owners of standard Pentium II processors should notice a large speed increase if upgrading to a faster, Pentium III class processor. CD-ROM Faster CD-ROM drives will enable graphics and sound on the CD's to be loaded more quickly. If your CD-ROM drive supports DMA, make sure this is enabled.