| 1 | This README.TXT file contains last minute additions to the manual.
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| 3 | Troubleshooting
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| 5 | Game Freezes
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| 7 | In DOS, if the introduction to the game freezes on the lizard this is
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| 8 | most likely due to the sound card selector not choosing the right sound card.
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| 9 | This may happen if, for example, you have a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 but
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| 10 | the SETSOUND program selects a standard SoundBlaster or 100% compatible
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| 11 | card.
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| 13 | To solve this problem simply re-run SETSOUND in the 3 Skulls directory on
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| 14 | your hard drive and make sure that you highlight the correct sound card type.
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| 16 | Please note that you need to have a sound card that supports both digital
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| 17 | SFX and either FM or General MIDI music to play the game.
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| 19 | Usage of Smartdrive
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| 21 | In some circumstances it may only be possible to have a small Smartdrive
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| 22 | cache, maybe as small as 512k on 8MB machines. This is due to the program
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| 23 | requiring as much total memory as possible to run.
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| 25 | Smartdrive will greatly improve the frame rate and therefore the smoothness
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| 26 | of the in-game animations (especially the intro) - smartdrive is only really
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| 27 | needed if your PC system is close to the minimum specifications as detailed
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| 28 | on the requirements sticker on the box.
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| 30 | Due to the PC architecture the overall speed of the PC is not necessarily
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| 31 | dependent on pure processor speed alone (although this obviously helps!). If
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| 32 | you have a 486 DX2 with 8MB RAM and x2 CD ROM drive you should notice a great
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| 33 | improvement in frame rate if you were to increase the amount of memory (and
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| 34 | therefore the smartdrive cache) and/or upgrade to a x4 CD ROM drive.
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| 36 | Windows 95
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| 38 | We have had no problems with the game running under Windows 95 as long as the
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| 39 | machine has around 12MB RAM, running with 8MB RAM leads to similar memory
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| 40 | constraints as in the DOS version. Windows 95 takes about 2MB of RAM from
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| 41 | the system which unfortunately leads to temperamental running with only
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| 42 | 8MB RAM.
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| 45 | Should you have any problems running this game please do not hesitate to
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| 46 | contact the Customer Services department detailed in the game manual.
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