Razor (c)2002 Activision Value Publishing, Inc. (c)2002 FUN labs Version 01/11/2002 Readme File ******************************************************************** About This Document: This document contains last-minute information about Razor, including questions you may have concerning the game or your computer. If you have a question, check to see if it is addressed here first: http://www.activisionvalue.com/ or http://www.funlabs.com/ you may save yourself a call to Technical Support. ******************************************************************** I. MINIMUM & RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS II. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES III. 3D HARDWARE ISSUES IV. CREDITS V. CONTACTS AND HELP I. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PENTIUM2 CLASS PROCESSOR, 333MHZ 64 MB RAM ON WINDOWS 95/98; 128 MB RAM ON WINDOWS ME/2000/XP 4 MB AGP 3D HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WITH DIRECT 3D SUPPORT HIGH COLOR GRAPHICS (16 BIT) 4X CD-ROM MOUSE KEYBOARD 56K MODEM OR LAN FOR MULTIPLAYER 450MB FREE HARD DRIVE SPACE* DIRECTX COMPATIBLE SOUND CARD WINDOWS 95/98/ME/2000/XP OPERATING SYSTEM DIRECTX 8a OR HIGHER RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PENTIUM3 CLASS PROCESSOR, 700MHZ 128 MB RAM ON WINDOWS 95/98; 256 MB RAM ON WINDOWS ME/2000/XP 32 MB AGP 3D HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WITH DIRECT 3D SUPPORT HIGH COLOR GRAPHICS (32 BIT) 8X CD-ROM OR HIGHER WHEEL MOUSE KEYBOARD 56K MODEM OR LAN FOR MULTIPLAYER 450MB FREE HARD DRIVE SPACE* DIRECTX HARDWARE ACCELERATED SOUND CARD (EAX RECOMMENDED) WINDOWS 95/98/ME/2000/XP OPERATING SYSTEM DIRECTX 8a OR HIGHER * Windows Swap file not included II. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES WARNING: Please make sure that Razor CD is inserted in your CD-ROM drive before launching the game. You can play the Razor Game only if the Razor CD is in drive. WARNING: On Windows95 OSR2 make sure you have installed the Winsock2 update from Microsoft web page on http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wuadmintools/s_wunetworkingtools/w95sockets2/ Winsock2 is trademark of Microsoft Corporation. DRIVER ISSUES Make sure you've installed DirectX 8.0a or later on your computer. DirectX (DX80a) is included on the Razor CD in the 'DirectX8' folder. Make sure you have installed the most recent drivers for all your hardware before playing Razor. SOUND PROBLEMS Check SOUND OPTIONS in OPTIONS MENU. VIEW AVI FILM SEQUENCES The Game Intro has short movie sequences. If you are having trouble playing them (no sound or no image) please make sure you have Windows Media Player ver 6.4 or above installed on your computer. III. 3D HARDWARE ISSUES Make sure that you have the DirectX8.0a installed on your computer. You can download DirectX8.0a from: http://www.microsoft.com/directx/ Make sure that you have the latest chipset driver for your video board. You can download the latest driver from the chipset manufacturer web site: http://www.3dfx.com/ http://www.3dlabs.com/ http://www.ati.com/ http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/ http://www.matrox.com/ http://www.nvidia.com/ http://www.powervr.com/ http://www.s3.com/ Low frame rate problem: - If the frame rate is low when shooting or using the flash light uncheck dynamic lights from "Options -> Settings -> Dynamical Lights". - Set the Character L.O.D. on "Very Low" from "Options -> Settings -> Character L.O.D.". This will decrease the polygon count on characters and will save CPU and Video board processing time. - Uncheck Detailed Sky from "Options -> Settings -> Detailed Sky". This will save CPU/Video board processing time. - Check triple buffered from "Options -> Video -> Triple Buffered". Checking triple buffered will force the game to use less video memory for the textures. Also this will show result only on older video boards that are always synchronized with the video refresh. - Uncheck Detail Texture from "Options -> Settings -> Detail Textures" This will save video card processing time. We recommand to check this only with the video cards from "Category III - Video Boards for the Best Performance" - Uncheck Level lightmap from "Options -> Settings -> Level lightmap" This will save video card processing time and will avoid on some older video board to draw the entire scene twice. - Uncheck Rain from "Options -> Settings -> Rain" This will save video card processing time. Overclocking issue: Overclocking video card at a clock and / or bus speed that is beyond the manufacturer specifications can cause Razor to frequently freeze or crash. We recommend not to use CPU or video board overclocking. Hardware Transforming & Lighting: Razor use Hardware Transforming & Lighting (T&L) technique. T&L can seriously enhance the game performances. Before changing the video board make sure that you have set the video display on default settings. "Options -> Video -> Default Settings" ALT-TAB issue: The Razor game support Alt-Tab switching. We recommended not to abuse it though. Intro Movies: If you experience long black screens when launching the game instead of the intro movies run the game with "-nointro" parameter. Assuming that the installation folder is "c:\Program Files\Activision Value\Razor" launch the game with "c:\Program Files\Activision Value\Razor\Bin\Game.exe -nointro". ------------------------------------------------------------------ Category I - Video Boards for Acceptable Performance ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 3DFX Voodoo2 98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.1151 (English) Suggestion: Disable dynamical lights & detail textures 2. 3DFX Voodoo Banshee 98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.1222 (English) Suggestion: Disable detail textures 3. ATI XPERT 98 AGP (English) 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2647 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English) Suggestion: Disable lightmap & detail textures 4. INTEL 740 98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.2719 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.01.00.1404 (English) Suggestion: Disable detail textures 5. INTEL 815 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2843 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.2843 (English) Suggestion: Disable detail textures 6. MATROX G200 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2730 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2180.3711 (English) Suggestion: Disable detail textures 7. NVIDIA Riva 128 Agp 98/Me Driver Version: 4.11.01.0337 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 4.11.01.0337 (English) Suggestion: Disable detail textures 8. NVIDIA Vanta 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) Suggestion: Disable detail textures ------------------------------------------------------------------ Category II - Video Boards for Average Performance ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 3DFX Voodoo 3 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English) Suggestion: On Windows 2000 driver the game will return an error message if the triple buffer is on. We recommend to disable triple buffer support. Uncheck "Menu On -> Options -> Video -> Triple Buffered" 2. 3DLABS Oxygen VX1 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2107 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0001 (English) 3. 3DLABS Oxygen GVX1 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.2107 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.1620 (English) 4. ATI Rage 128 Pro (Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro) 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7078 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.0192 (English) 5. ATI Magnum Rage 128 (Magnum/Xpert128/X99/Xpert2000) 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7078 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.0192 (English) 6. NVIDIA Tnt1 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2183 (English) 7. NVIDIA Tnt2 M64 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) 8. NVIDIA Tnt2 Ultra 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) 9. NVIDIA Tnt2 Pro 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 4.13.01.2311 (English) 10. S3 Savage 4 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.8228 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 05.12.01.8011 (English) 11. S3 Savage 2000 Driver Version: 4.12.01.9015 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.12.01.9008 (English) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Category III - Video Boards for the Best Performance ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 3DFX Voodoo 4 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English) Suggestion: On Windows 2000 driver the game will return an error message if the triple buffer is on. We recommend to disable triple buffer support. Uncheck "Menu On -> Options -> Video -> Triple Buffered" 2. 3DFX Voodoo 5 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.00.2195.0232 (English) Suggestion: On Windows 2000 driver the game will return an error message if the triple buffer is on. We recommend to disable triple buffer support. Uncheck "Menu On -> Options -> Video -> Triple Buffered" 3. ATI Radeon 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7075 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.3102 (English) 4. RADEON 7000/RADEON VE 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7189 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.3276 (English) 5. RADEON 7500 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7189 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.3276 (English) 6. RADEON 8500 DDR 98/Me Driver Version: 4.13.01.7191 (English) W2000 Driver Version: 5.13.01.3276 (English) 7. MATROX G400 98/Me Driver Version: 4.12.01.1810 ...
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