================================================================== Robin Hood – The Legend of Sherwood v1.0
Readme file – October 25th, 2002 ================================================================== Thank you for purchasing Robin Hood – The Legend of Sherwood.
The Spellbound Team wishes you a lot of fun with their new game. This readme file contains useful information that could help you to solve problems with the game. ================================================================== CONTENTS Getting Started · System Requirements
· DirectXtm and driver information
· Installing and starting the game
· Uninstallation Problems and Solutions · Performance optimisation on slow systems
· Known problems
· Technical Support
================================================================== GETTING STARTED ================================================================== System Requirements
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OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
CPU: 233 MHz Intel Pentium II or similar CPU
RAM: 64 MB
CD/DVD-ROM speed: 4x
Hard drive space: 1GB available
Video: 4 MB RAM and DirectXtm-compatible
Sound: DirectXtm compatible sound device
Input: Keyboard, Mouse Recommended: CPU: 500 MHz Pentium III or similar CPU
RAM: 128 MB
DirectXtm and driver information
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This game is running with Microsoft's DirectX 8.1 or later. In order to be able to play the game, you must have DirectX 8.1 or later compliant drivers for your hardware installed.
You will find the latest version of DirectX at: www.microsoft.com/directx[->0] To obtain the latest drivers from your card manufacturer please refer to these links: 3D labs: www.3dlabs.com[->1]
ATI Technologies: www.ati.com[->2]
Creative Labs: www.creative.com[->3]
Diamond Multimedia / S3: www.diamondmm.com[->4]
Hercules: www.hercules.com[->5]
Intel : www.support.intel.com[->6]
Matrox: www.matrox.com[->7] nVIDIA: www.nvidia.com[->8]
Installation and start
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If the installation is not starting automatically, please follow the instructions below to install the game: 1) Double click on the work space desktop icon with the left mouse button.
2) Choose your CD-ROM drive in which you inserted the CD with a double click.
3) Double click on the “Setup.exe” file. The installation program is now starting and the on-screen information will guide you through the installation process. Please read the on-screen information carefully before selecting an option.
The installer will notice if you have already installed a recent version of DirectXtm on your computer. In this case you can start the game directly after the installation. If DirectX has to be installed, you have to reboot your computer before being able to play the game.
If the installation was successful, you can start the game by using the link in the start menu or by double clicking the desktop icon.
Uninstallation
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You can uninstall the game by using the “Uninstall Robin Hood – The Legend of Sherwood“ link in the start menu or by using the “add/remove software“ option in the control panel of Windows.
Inexperienced users are recommended to use the automatic uninstall option. During the uninstallation of Robin Hood the savegames will be saved in the subfolder “Robin Hood 1.0” of the Windows folder. With the next installation of Robin Hood the savegames will be automatically restored.
================================================================== PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ================================================================== Performance optimisation on slow systems
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If Robin Hood –The Legend of Sherwood is running too slow on your system, there are some possibilities to improve the situation. Please test all these possibilities before contacting the Technical Support. - Please make sure to have closed all other windows and applications, including background applications. Other programs may slow your system down if they are running at the same time as Robin Hood. - Please make sure to have installed the most recent drivers for your hardware. The drivers included with your vesion of Windows may be a reason for slowing down the game. - Please make sure to have defragmented your hard disk drive. A very fragmented hard disk drive can slow down the game because the hard disk is used a lot while you are playing. - If the points above do not seem to help, you can deactivate some graphic options and choose a lower display resolution in the game itself. It is possible that you don’t need to deactivate all the points to achieve better performance. o Alpha blending for the view cones o Transparent shadows o Animation effects o Background animations - In the sound options of the game there are also options to improve the performance. You can deactivate „3D sound“ and use low resolution.
Troubleshooting information
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Some older graphic cards drivers can produce for example small display errors at the edges of the animations. If you encounter such kind of problems you are recommended to install new drivers. Spellbound Studios and Strategy First are committed to providing customer support for their games on a continuing basis. In that spirit, there may be a patch for Robin Hood – The Legend of Sherwood forthcoming. Please visit the website of the game (www.RobinHood-game.com[->9]) or the Strategy First website (www.strategyfirst.com[->10]) for more information.
Technical support
For all other comments, further technical assistance or suggestions you may contact us:
by email at: support@strategyfirst.com[->11].
telephone: 514.844.2433
fax: 514.844.4337
------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are still encountering problems after reading through this file, do not hesitate to contact our technical support by any of the methods described hereunder with all the necessary elements for our experts to give you accurate assistance: type of hardware installed on your system (sound card, video card etc), RAM, processor speed and make and of course an accurate description of the problem and its location.
All the hardware and software information can also be found by launching the DxDiag application, follow the steps below to do so: 1) Click on Start
2) Click on Run
3) Type dxdiag
4) Click on Save Information button and save the file to your computer.
You can either print the DxDiag window to have it ready when you call the Technical support or simply e-mail it to them.
2002 Wanadoo Edition. 2002 Strategy First Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, however partial and on whichever support is forbidden. All information recorded on this CD-Rom disk can under no circumstances be used toward commercial or promotional ends, without the express permission of Strategy First. Developed by Spellbound Studios.
[->0] - http://www.microsoft.com/directx
[->1] - http://www.3dlabs.com/
[->2] - http://www.ati.com/
[->3] - http://www.creative.com/
[->4] - http://www.diamondmm.com/
[->5] - http://www.hercules.com/
[->6] - http://www.support.intel.com/
[->7] - http://www.matrox.com/
[->8] - http://www.nvidia.com/
[->9] - http://www.robinhood-game.com/
[->10] - http://www.strategyfirst.com
[->11] - mailto:support@strategyfirst.com 