MOTORACER FAQ - Mar 17th 1997

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IMPORTANT!

1) Before installing or running Moto Racer you must insure that 
your Desktop color palette is set to 'High Color (16 bit)'.

2) DirectX version 3 has to be installed on your PC (if in the 
future you install another game which installs DirectX version 2 
or 1, it might be necessary to reinstall DirectX 3 to play the 
MotoRacer demo again).

3) Make sure that there is no CD player running, if so quit any 
Audio CD Player application (CD Player, FlexiCD, etc.).


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 T R O U B L E S H O O T I N G
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IF YOU ENCOUNTER THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS:


- the game is very slow

1) If you have an ATI 3D RAGE video board in your PC :
Launch the game with the command line argument -noPal256 (just 
create a shortcut on the program and add this argument after the 
name of the program file on the target field).

2) Try a lower screen resolution with F2 (toggle to a windowed 
display mode if the full screen 320x240 screen resolution is not 
available on your system). Change your desktop resolution to
640x480 if your video board doesn't have enough memory.

3) The most recent version of your video board driver can 
increase performance by up to 20%.

4) The game uses floating point calculation intensively, some 
processors are less efficient in this matter than others.

5) Choose the lowest sreen resolution, decrease the detail level 
by pressing the '-' key on the numpad, remove the top map 
display by pressing F9.

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- When I turn left I can't do a wheelie or when I do a wheelie I 
can't turn left :

1) Some keyboards cannot efficiently handle the "Left Arrow key" 
pressed at   the same time as some other keys. On the keyboard 
configuration screen,   replace the space bar used for the 
wheelie with another key, 'B' for   example.

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- I can't get the full screen 320x240 screen resolution

1) You may have to reinstall your video board drivers after 
you've installed DirectX. DirectX sometimes replaces your 
existing drivers with older versions. This can result in the 
inability to display the different resolutions available with 
your video board.

2) If you have a Matrox Millenium in your PC:
To take advantage of this screen resolution, get the latest 
version of its drivers and install them AFTER having installed 
DirectX.

3) Other cases :
The latest version of your drivers may give access to this 
screen resolution.

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- I have a 3D accelerator board but the game doesn't seem to use 
it :

1) Check you've installed DirectX version 3. If your 3D board is 
not supported by DirectX, the game won't take advantage of your 
3D accelerator.

2) Check the Direct3D Hardware Acceleration is enabled (launch 
DirectX setup from your Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs / 
DirectX)

3) If your 3D accelerator board doesn't support textures with 
transparency, the game will run in Software 3D render mode which 
doesn't use Direct3D and consequently doesn't use the hardware 
capabilities of your 3D board.

4) If your 3D board doesn't handle textured polygons (such as 
the Matrox Millenium for example), the game will run in Software 
3D render mode. You can force the hardware 3D acceleration by 
using the command line argument -D3D but you'll get no textures 
as the board can't handle them.

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- Black squares are visible around smoke or other objects. The 
shadows of the bikes or the trees are rectangular.

1) Your 3D accelerator board can't display polygons with 
transparency, but makes the program think it can. You can launch 
the game with the command line argument -noD3D to fix this 
problem. However you won't take advantage of your hardware 3D 
acceleration.

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- The screen remains black after having changed the screen 
resolution while in full screen mode.

1) Your video board driver may not properly handle the given 
screen resolution. Switch to a windowed display mode by pressing 
ALT + ENTER or switch to another screen resolution by pressing 
F3 or F2 once more.

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- the game doesn't work or the game freezes :

1) If the game seems to have crashed while in full screen mode, 
the program might have opened a Dialog Box not visible on this 
screen. Try to close the box by pressing ESC or ENTER. You can 
try to switch to windowed display mode too by pressing ALT + 
ENTER.

2) The game runs in full screen mode by default. You can force 
it to a windowed mode with the command line argument -windowed.

3) You can turn the sound OFF with the command line argument -
nosound

4) You can turn the hardware 3D acceleration OFF (if you have 
such a board) by adding the command line argument -noD3D

5) If you have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound board, you'll need 
its latest drivers (the version which works properly with 
program intensively using floating point calculation).

6) If you have a Pentium with MMX technology, you can disable 
the MMX usage with the command line argument -noMMX

7) You can turn the type of processor detection OFF with the 
command line argument -noCpuDetect

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- I have no sound :

1) Check your Loud speakers are correctly connected to your 
sound board.

2) Check your sound board drivers are correctly installed.

3) Increase the volume of your sound device by using the '/' and 
'*' keys of the numpad.

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- The command line argument are not taken in account :

1) You must leave a blank space between subsequent parameters 
and respect the case.

For example, if you have a 3D accelerator board and you want to 
make the game run in software 3D render mode, you must create a 
shortcut with a line in the target field such as:

"C:\Program Files\MotoRacer\Moto.exe" -noD3D
(the path can be different)

If you want to disable the sound effects too :

"C:\Program Files\MotoRacer\Moto.exe" -noD3D -nosound
(respect the case for each parameter)
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- Where could I find the latest drivers for a given video board 
or sound board ? 

1) On Internet.

2) On the BBS of the board manufacturer (if available).

3) By contacting your computer shop.

4) Directly from your computer manufacturer.
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