================================================================== Medal of Honor Allied Assault(tm) Demo Version 1.0 Read Me File November 28, 2001 ================================================================== Thank you for obtaining the Medal of Honor Allied Assault demo. This readme file contains information that will help you fully enjoy this demo. ================================================================== Installation Instructions ================================================================== To install the Medal of Honor Allied Assault demo: 1) Browse to the MOHAA folder on the Demo CD. 2) Double mouse-click "Setup.exe". 3) Follow the instructions that appear to install the demo. ================================================================== Uninstalling Medal of Honor Allied Assault Demo ================================================================== Windows 95,98, and ME To uninstall the Medal of Honor Allied Assault demo: 1) Bring up your Start Menu. 2) Choose "Settings". 3) Choose "Control Panel". 4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs" 5) Highlight "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Demo" and click the "Add/Remove..." button in the lower right. 6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo. Windows XP: Home Edition and Professional To uninstall the Medal of Honor Allied Assault demo: 1) Bring up your Start Menu. 2) Choose "Settings". 3) Choose "Control Panel". 4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs" 5) Highlight "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Demo" and click the "Remove" button below its name. 6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo. ================================================================== Gameplay Instructions ================================================================== All controls are available and customizable from the "Controls" Menu accessible from the Main Menu. Here is a breakdown of the default controls. FUNCTION: KEY/MOUSE USED Primary Attack: Left mouse button Secondary Attack: Right mouse button Reload: r Move Forward: w Move Backward: s Strafe Left: a Strafe Right: d Use: e Jump/Stand Up: Space Crouch: Left Ctrl Turn Left: Move mouse left Turn Right: Move mouse right Look Up: Move mouse up Look Down: Move mouse down Run/Walk: Left Shift Next Weapon: Mouse Wheel Up Previous Weapon: Mouse Wheel Down Holster Weapon: q Pistol (Colt 45): 1 Rifle (Springfield): 2 SMG (Thompson): 3 MG (BAR): 4 Grenade: 5 Heavy (Panzerschreck): 6 Binoculars: 7 Mission Objectives: Tab QuickSave: F5 QuickLoad: F9 Important Notes: -Health Packs and Canteens Make sure to either walk into or center your view on and activate the "use" key on these items when in need of health. Health packs are rectangles with a red cross and restore a large amount of health. Canteens also have a red cross on them and restore a small amount of health and can often be found atop eliminated Germans. -Mounted Machine Guns There are several mounted machine guns that you can walk up to an activate with the "use" key. To stop using the mounted gun, type the "use" key again. -QuickSave QuickSave is an important feature that allows you to save a game by hitting the "F5" key on you keyboard. After dying you will restart at the point of your last QuickSave (or AutoSave). This will help the player save their progress, especially after any tough part of the demo. -AutoSave At various points in the demo level the game will AutoSave. This prevents the player from having to start all the way back at the beginning of the level or at the spot of their last save game. -Secondary Attack Two weapons use the secondary attack. Sniper Rifle zooms with Secondary Attack. Grenades are thrown a much shorter distance with Secondary attack. -Binoculars In some situations, the Binoculars can be used to call in an Air Strike in the event you run out of Panzerschreck shells. Simply bring up the Binoculars and put the target in your sights, then hit the Primary Attack button. Within a short amount of time, an Allied plane will destroy the target. ================================================================== System Requirements ================================================================== Minimum: 450 MHz CPU 64 MB of RAM 16 MB 3D accelerator video card with OpenGL support 200 MB of free hard drive space CD-ROM/DVD-ROM DirectX 8 Compatible Sound Card Required Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows XP: Home Edition and Professional. Note that Windows NT 3.x, 4.0, and 2000 are not supported. The following 16MB or greater 3D accelerators are fully supported and should work properly with the game: -Nvidia GeForce3 Titanium 500 -Nvidia GeForce3 -Nvidia GeForce3 Titanium 200 -Nvidia GeForce2 Ultra -Nvidia GeForce2 Titanium -Nvidia GeForce2 GTS/Pro -Nvidia GeForce2 MX -Nvidia GeForce 256 -Nvidia TNT 2 -Nvidia nForce IGP (Integrate Graphics Processor) -Matrox Millennium G550 -ATI Radeon 8500 -ATI Radeon 7500 -ATI Radeon -ST Kyro II -ST Kyro The following 16MB or greater 3D accelerators are not fully supported and do not work properly with the game: -3Dfx Voodoo 4 and 5 The main menu is corrupted. No intro movies play. Explosions and muzzle flashes have gray boxes that appear around them. Various textures are corrupted. See the 3Dfx portion of the Troubleshooting section below to fix the main menu. -3Dfx Voodoo 3 The main menu is corrupted. See Troubleshooting section to see how to get the menu to work. No intro movies play. Briefing Screens are too blurry to read. Explosions and muzzle flashes have gray boxes that appear around them. Various textures are corrupted. See the 3Dfx portion of the Troubleshooting section below to fix the main menu. -3Dfx Voodoo Banshee cards -Kyro II cards Gray squares can be seen surrounding explosions and vehicle headlights. This is a problem with the Kyro II video driver mishandling mipmapping of alpha textures. -Matrox G400 and G450 Textures on most levels are badly corrupted. -Nvidia TNT and Vanta These older cards yield poor frame rates. -PowerVR NEON 250 cards: Video Logic PowerVR Neon 250 -S3 Savage 2000 cards: Diamond Viper II -S3 Savage 4 cards: Diamond Stealth III S540 Diamond Stealth III S540 Extreme -SiS 300 cards The following sound card is not supported: -Ensoniq SoundScape PNP The following sound cards have known problems: -Diamond Monster Sound MX 400 Requires turning off "DirectSound Acceleration" in the driver. See the detailed explanation under "Troubleshooting." -Creative Labs Audigy Currently hardware acceleration for this card does not work correctly. ================================================================== Installing DirectX 8.0 ================================================================== If you declined to install DirectX 8.0 when initially installing Medal of Honor Allied Assault, you can directly run "dxsetup.exe", located in the DirectX directory on the install CDROM. This is found on demo disc under the "redist\directx8" folder. Just double-click on "dxsetup.exe". ================================================================== Improving Gameplay Performance ================================================================== Some machines will benefit from experimenting with your video/sound options: - From the Main Menu choose the "Options" menu signified by some electronic equipment towards the left side on the table. Then select the "Video" menu, select "Texture Detail" and choose "LOW". This is particularly useful for computers with less than 128 MB of RAM. - Also from the "Video" menu, uncheck the "WALL DECALS" check box. This will prevent the game from creating bullet marks on walls and should improve performance. - Try reducing your video resolution to 640x480 or even 512x384 in your "Video" menu. The lower the resolution, the easier it is for your computer to run the game. - From the "Video" menu you can try lowering your color depth from 32 to 16 bit. - Video cards with less than 64MB Video memory cannot set texture detail to high and texture color depth to 32 bit simultaneously. These cards can get very poor performance at times, so lower your texture detail and/or lower your texture depth to 16 bit. - From the "Advanced" menu under the "Options" menu try turning the "SHADOWS" down to "simple" or "none". - In Advanced Video Options you can change your View Model. This allows one to choose how much of their own player model is shown. NONE means player's arm and weapon will not appear. GUN ONLY means the gun and not the arms of Powell will appear. FULL means that you will see both Lt. Powell's hands and the weapon he is holding during gameplay. The less of Lt. Powell that is showing, the faster the game should run. ================================================================== Troubleshooting ================================================================== Safe Mode Safe mode can be accessed from the "MOHAA Safe Mode" link in your "Start" menu. It is provided as a means of isolating the cause of problems you may have with sound or video card drivers. When launching with safe mode, you can disable 3D video accelerator support or hardware support for sound cards in its menu. DirectX 8.0 It is highly recommended that you install DirectX 8.0 during Medal of Honor Allied Assault install, as DirectX 8.0 is known to resolve a number of video card and other issues. Previous versions of DirectX are not fully supported. Video Card Drivers Some video card drivers do not support OpenGL correctly. Typical problems that may occur with these drivers include: - Crashing on starting up - Crashing when changing video resolutions - Corrupted textures - Artifacts on screen - Unexpected bright flashing on screen - Unusually slow performance. The solution is to go to your video card manufacturer's website and download updated drivers for your card. It is highly recommended that, given an option, you download and install Microsoft-certified (WHQL) drivers. 3Dfx Menu fix: Go into the Options menu from the main menu. Then choose the "Advanced" menu. Check the "3DFX MENU FIX" checkbox and click the "Apply" button. This will fix the problem of the menu being corrupted when running with a 3Dfx Voodoo3, 4 or 5 card. Video Resolution of 1600x1200: A resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels is not fully supported and has been found to have problems with various video cards. If the game crashes you can run in safe mode and adjust your resolution back to a stable and desirable setting. Sound Card Drivers Diamond Monster Sound MX 400 How to fix the MX 400 for use by Medal of Honor Allied Assault: 1) Exit from MoHAA if you are running Medal of Honor Allied Assault. 2) Open up the "Diamond Monster Sound" utility from the toolbar; this is a small red and white icon near the clock. 3) Make sure the "Enable DirectSound Acceleration" checkbox is off. 4) Click on the "Apply And Exit" button. You should be able to run MoHAA without a problem. ================================================================== Other Issues ================================================================== Keyboard Controls: Some PC keyboards cannot recognize certain combinations of 3 or more simultaneously pressed keys. This is an inherent problem unrelated to Medal of Honor Allied Assault. Advanced Console Commands from the Advanced Options menu: By default the advanced console will not be available unless the option is checked in the "Options" menu. From this console you will be able to make advanced console commands. The normal console is active by default. Texture Compression from Video menu: Texture compression has been disabled for the demo but is in the full version of the game. In the demo it appears on the Video menu but is missing a checkbox. ================================================================== Useful Web Sites ================================================================== http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Keep your Windows installation up to date. http://mohaa.ea.com The official Medal of Honor Allied Assault website. http://www.cmohs.org The official site of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. ================================================================== Legal Information ================================================================== THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WHICH ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT WILL ELECTRONIC ARTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM POSSESSION, USE, OR MALFUNCTION OF THIS ELECTRONIC ARTS SOFTWARE PRODUCT. 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