STORMRISE README Last Updated: 2009-01-28 ______________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS ______________________________________________________________________ I. INTRODUCTION II. MANUAL ADDENDUM III. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS IV. INSTALLATION & SET UP ISSUES V. BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE GUIDE VII. LEGAL INFORMATION ______________________________________________________________________ I. INTRODUCTION ______________________________________________________________________ If you experience any problems please make sure that you have the latest drivers for your PC installed. http://www.nvidia.com/ http://www.ati.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/directx/ http://www.gamesforwindows.com For the latest information on this product please visit the following websites: http://www.sega-europe.com/ http://www.sega.com/stormrise/ ______________________________________________________________________ II. MANUAL ADDENDUM ______________________________________________________________________ Page 18 - Mind Control ability should read: Mind Control: The powerful mind of the Spectre can temporarily dominate weak willed enemies. ______________________________________________________________________ III. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ______________________________________________________________________ Minimum Specification: OS: Microsoft® Windows® Vista® (SP1 or later) CPU: 2.8 GHz Dual core CPU GPU: ATI 2400 / NVIDIA 8400 Memory: 1GB HDD: 9GB of Hard Drive Space Sound Card Recommended Specification: OS: Microsoft® Windows® Vista® (SP1 or later) CPU: 2.4 GHz Quad core GPU: NVIDIA 8800 or ATI 4850 Memory 2GB HDD: 9GB of Hard Drive Space Sound Card ______________________________________________________________________ IV. INSTALLATION & SET UP ISSUES ______________________________________________________________________ OS Installation: You must have Administrator rights to install the game. Microsoft® Windows® Vista® SP1 or later is required. ______________________________________________________________________ V. BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE GUIDE ______________________________________________________________________ This section covers the performance benchmarking built into the PC version of Stormrise. Benchmarking is performed on slightly modified game levels and should be considered indicative of gameplay. The benchmarking process is driven though the config file and command line parameters. --------------------- Using the Config File --------------------- When executing the Game, you can tell the game to use a specific config file by passing it on the command line with an "@" symbol preceeding the file name. e.g. "Stormrise.exe @user.cfg" will execute the game and use the "user.cfg" file. When benchmarking, video options can only be set from the config file and command line parameters. ------------------ Config file format ------------------ The config file is broken up into sections with each section containing a number of elements. No individual element is mandatory, as the elements are only used to override the in-game options. An example of the contents of a config are as follows: [benchmark] enableBenchmark = true outputAllFrames = false outputFilename = c:\benchmark.txt mission = $mn_sp05 [video] width=1920 height=1200 samples=8 aspect=2 enable10_1=true shadowquality=2 fxquality=2 modelquality=2 texturequality=2 vsync=0 ---------------------- Commandline Parameters ---------------------- All the options in the config file can be supplied on the command line. To supply an option on the command line, you use a double dash "--" followed by the group, option name and value. Eg: To launch the game with 8 samples set for MSAA you would use "Stormrise.exe --video.samples=8" If you intend to run a command line parameter and a config file you need to place the conig file at the end of the command e.g. "Stormrise.exe --video.samples=8 @user.cfg" ----------------- Benchmark Section ----------------- This section controls whether or not benchmarking is being performed and controls how the benchmarking is performed. "enableBenchmark" -- Control whether or not benchmarking is being performed "outputAllFrames" -- Determines if the instantaneous frame rate is written to file every frame. (results in a much larger output file) "outputFilename" -- Declares the output file for the benchmark data. If none is supplied, or the file cannot be opened for writing, it will default to "Stormrise_benchmark.txt" in the "%USERPROFILE%" directory (normally c:\Users\username) "mission" -- Controls the mission used for benchmarking. If a mission is selected which isn't set up for benchmarking, then the Game will quit automatically once the level has been loaded. Currently the only mission available for benchmarking is "$mn_sp05" ------------- Video Section ------------- This section controls the video configuration. In benchmark mode there is no profile signed in, so these options need to be used to control how the benchmark is run. "width" -- The horizontal resolution to set for video output (valid values depend on the video card) "height" -- The vertical resolution to set for video output (valid values depend on the video card) "samples" -- The number of samples to use for MSAA (valid values depend on the video card) "enable10_1" -- Controls whether or not the Game is allowed to run is DirectX 10.1 mode. This setting only applies to DirectX 10.1 hardware as DirectX 10.0 hardware will always run in DirectX 10.0 mode. "shadowquality" -- Controls Shadow Quality : 0 = Low; 1 = Medium; 2 = High; "fxquality" -- Controls the FX Quality in game: 0 = Low; 1 = Medium; 2 = High; "texturequality" -- Controls the maximum texture quality in game: 0 = Low; 1 = Medium; 2 = High; "vsync" -- Controls syncing to the vertical refresh. 1 = sync to refresh; 0 = don't sync to refresh. Vsync is always disabled in benchmark mode. "aspect" -- constrols aspect ratio, 0 = 4:3, 1 = 16:9, 2 = 16:10 ---------------------- Performing a benchmark ---------------------- To perform a benchmark, the "enableBenchmark" option must be set (either by config file or command line). Additionally, a valid benchmark "mission" must be set as well. If an invalid mission is selected (or no mission is selected) then the Game will terminate without performing a benchmark. Once the benchmark is complete, the benchmark results will be saved into the file specified in the config (or into "Stormrise_benchmark.txt" in the %USERPROFILE% directory if no outputFilename was specified). The file will contain the video options used for benchmark run, the time the benchmark was started and the benchmark results (Min, Max and Avg frame rates - and possibly the instantaneous frames rates throughout the benchmark). The output file will be overridden each time a benchmark is run, so it's advisable that you use the data before running another benchmark or change the outputFilename. When running in benchmark mode, no profile is signed in by default (and hence no profile related video settings are loaded). To control video options, you will need to use the config file and/or command line options. Attempting to change profiles (or log into a profile) during benchmarking will result in termination of the benchmark. ______________________________________________________________________ VI. LEGAL INFORMATION ______________________________________________________________________ © SEGA. SEGA, The SEGA logo, STORMRISE and WHIP SELECT are either registered trade marks or trade marks of SEGA Corporation. The Creative Assembly is a trade mark of The Creative Assembly Limited. All Rights Reserved.