MACHINE HUNTER (TM) Version 1.10

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Legal Stuff
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MACHINE HUNTER, (C) 1996-1997, EUROCOM DEVELOPMENTS LTD. 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
LICENSED TO MGM INTERACTIVE INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
MACHINE HUNTER IS A TRADEMARK OF EUROCOM DEVELOPMENTS LTD.

General Notes
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This file contains a number of issues that came to light after the 
manual went to press together with some recommendations and trouble 
shooting pointers.

Music
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The Music option is listed in the manual as an on/off option. It now 
is a tri-state option with options being OFF, CDDA, and Internal. 
This allows network players without a CD to join a game and have some 
music. It also allows players with the CD to switch to the internal 
music if they are having trouble with CD Audio or their CDROM pauses 
when the tracks loop.

Multiplayer games
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When playing a multiplayer game it is highly recommended that you close all
other Windows applications. In particular any application which responds
to network messages such as Mail programs or WinPopup should not be running
while the network game is in progress.

The reason for this is that the game has to be able to use the network
at all times. If the network is unavailable for a short while, the other
players will think that your machine has left for some reason and remove you
from their game. It is possible to rejoin, but you will have lost all your
scores and pickups.

This will also happen if you click away from the application to another
program, e.g. trying to read your mail with the game in the background.
The game will throw your machine out since the network messages are not
processed unless the game is the active application.

The other reason for running the game with no other applications is one of
performance. If Mail, WinPopup, NetWatcher, your Web Browser are all running
and you try to play a network game, the game has to share with all these
other programs. This can cause your machine to perform many maintenance tasks
for the other programs which will adversely affect performance of the game
and the speed in which it can react to events received by the network.

Performance
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Following are some pointers to help you improve the performance of the
game on your machine.

Turn off Gouraud Shading in the game options.
Turn off Colour Addition in the game options.
Turn off Ambient Sound Effects in the game options.
Turn off Sound Effects in the game options.
Turn off Music in the game options.
Close all applications before playing the game to free up as much RAM as
possible.
If you have a 3D accelerator card which is designed for Windows, you may get
low performance on high end machines when running full screen. This is
because the hardware is optimised for Windows screen resolutions and not the
DirectX full screen mode used by the game. In this case you should run in a
window. Many of these card will allow you to stretch or maximise this window
to suit your taste with no loss of performance.


Trouble Shooting
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If you are having problems with lockups or crashes, you should try the
following.

If you did not install DirectX from the game CD, try this. It may be that
some or all of your DirectX drivers are older than the ones the game
supports.

Make sure that you have the latest Windows 95 drivers for your Video Card
and Sound Card. If you do not, contact Microsoft or the Manufacturer. They
will be able to provide the latest Windows 95 drivers and DirectX drivers
for that particular card.

Try turning off CD Audio. Some CDROMS take a long time to respond to messages
which play and loop audio tracks. This can cause what seems like a lockup
whenever a track starts or loops.

Try turning off music, ambient sound effects and sound effects. This will
find sound driver related problems.

Make sure that there is plenty of free space on your system hard drive for
Windows to use for virtual memory. Low disk space causes a real problem for
Windows memory management.

If you are planning an upgrade for your PC consider buying RAM as a priority.
Windows itself aswell as the game will benefit greatly from increased RAM.

Still need help
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If you have anymore questions contact our Customer Service Line 
at (310)449-8775 during the hours 9:00am-6:00pm (PST) 
Please make sure you have the following information: 
	CPU Type and Speed
	CDROM speed
	Amount of RAM, 
	Video and Sound card manufacturer. 
This information will help us better determine the nature of your 
problem. 

Note: This is not a Hint Line.


Where in the world
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Machine hunter dedicated site       www.machinehunter.com
Eurocom                             www.eurodltd.co.uk
MGM Interactive                     www.mgm.com


