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System Specifications

Minimum

Pentium 166 Mhz
32 meg RAM
3D Accelerator Card (3DFX, Matrox, TNT, etc.)
Sound Card
Windows 9x
Direct X 7.0

Recommended

Pentium 266 Mhz
64 meg RAM
3D Accelerator Card (3DFX, Matrox, TNT, etc.)
Sound Card
Windows 9x
Direct X 7.0

Trouble Shooting

Game fails to run.
1. Make sure you have a 3D card installed in your PC, video boards that should work with the game are; Voodoo 1,2 and 3, Riva TNT 1 and 2, Matrox G200 and G400. Any other Direct 3D Accelerator cards should work, if they are fully certified in Direct X 7.
2. If you do have a suitable 3D card then the next thing to do is to make sure it is installed correctly and with the most up to date drivers. Video board manufacturers often update the drivers for their video boards, these are normally available as a free download from their web site.
3. Check your sound card is installed correctly and is Direct X certified. You may need to download new drivers from the manufacturer.
4. Finally make sure you have Direct X 7 installed on you PC. You will find a copy on the 'Bowling USA' CD in the 'Directx' directory.

Game runs, but graphics are corrupt.
1. As above, make sure you have the most up to date drivers for your 3D video board.
2. Make sure Direct X 7 is installed.

Game runs, but there is no sound or sound is corrupt.
1. Check that your sound card is installed correctly and Direct X certified. You may need to download new drivers from the manufacturer.

Game runs, but is very slow and jerky.
1. Make sure your computer is running at optimal performance. Check 'Control Panel / System / Performance'. There should be a message stating 'your system is configured for optimal performance'. If the message says there are any problems, you should try to remedy these before running the game.
2. Make sure you are not running any other programs in the background. Close down all other applications before you start the game. Also programs that run in the system tray (bottom right corner of taskbar) will use up valuable system resources, try closing some of these down before running the game.
3. How much memoy does your machine have? If it 32meg or less, then adding more memory could greatly increase the performance, not only of the game, but also Windows and any other applications and games.
4. The quality of your 3D Accelerator board can greatly effect the performance of the game. If you have an older first generation 3D card such as a Voodoo 1, Matrox G200, Riva TNT 1 or similar then you may consider upgrading to a second generation card such as a Voodoo 2/3, Matrox G400, Riva TNT2, etc.
5. What speed is your processor. Unfortunately the 3D engine which powers the game does require a lot of processing power, if your processor is below 300Mhz PII or AMD K6 then it may be time to consider upgrading to a faster one.
6. Use the setup program to turn off the in game reflections and if need be set the resolution to 320*240