Slave Zero(tm)	README.TXT	
October 27, 1999
(c)1998, 1999 Infogrames North America.  All rights reserved.	

This Software is a version of Slave ZeroTM
using the Ecstasy EngineTM.  The Software is provided
under license by Infogrames North America 
and may not be copied, distributed, transferred or sold
in any manner.  The Software is provided "AS IS" and without
any warranty of any kind, and Infogrames North America retains all 
ownership, right, title, and interest in and to the 
Software, including the Ecstasy EngineTM.  


Table of Contents
1.  System Requirements
2.  Checking video modes
3.  Game Options
4.  Sound
5.  Video
6.  Known Problems
7.  Contacting Customer Support

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

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Pentium 233
32 MB of RAM
Microsoft Windows(r) 95 or 98.
Microsoft DirectX 7 Compatible sound card
3D accelerator card w/ the latest DX7 compatible drivers
Microsoft DirectX 7 available from Microsoft at  
   http://www.microsoft.com/directx/default.asp
Approximately 230 MB of available hard drive space is required.
(there is a minimum install available which requires 125 megs)

(The recommended system is a PII 266 with 64 MB of RAM)


CONTENTS
You are playing the full, final version of Slave Zero.  


SLAVE ZERO CONTACT INFORMATION
Technical support questions should be directed to the Infogrames Tech Support
department.  Contact information is at the end of this readme.

For updates, patches, and more information please see
the Slave Zero web site:  www.slavezero.com
Questions and comments are welcome and can be directed to:  
slavezero@accolade.com


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CHECKING VIDEO MODES

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Slave Zero automatically checks what video cards you have in your machine
and what video modes you have available.  This can take a couple moments and your
screen may change resolutions.  There are a couple known problems:

1.  3dfx Quake3 drivers:
If you have these drivers installed an error may occur.  You must have the latest
3dfx drivers in order for Slave Zero to perform correctly.

Getting  the latest drivers for your video card from your video card manufacturer 
can solve most errors.  Reference drivers can be used, but it is strongly 
recommended that you use driver provided by the hardware manufacturer.


* Video Mode Problems *
If you have problems with the video mode the game is in and the menu system will
not fix it then you can try deleting the file named szHardware.ini which will
force the game to re-check your available video modes and cards.


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SOUND

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Slave Zero supports A3D, 3d positional audio, and
has EAX support.  If your sound card supports these features
they will automatically be enabled.  You can disable any of 
them by using our in game menu system.  

AUDIO HARDWARE
Slave Zero auto detects your hardware.  Some sounds cards (like 
the Sound Blaster PCI 128) do not report the correct information 
to the game.  If you have any problems with audio in Slave Zero (assuming you 
have the latest drivers for your sound card), simple turn off audio hardware 
in the menu.  This will ignore the hardware present in your computer.  Note 
that if you disable hardware support you will automatically disable reverb 
and occlusion support.

REVERB
You can toggle reverb support on and off through the menu as well (assuming 
it is available on your system).

AUDIO MODES
Slave Zero has several audio modes for you to choose from.  You can listen 
to sound effects and music, sound effects and ambient sounds, just sound 
effects, or no audio.  You can not listen to music and ambient sounds 
together, and if you disable audio altogether you will get a significant 
memory savings on most levels, but of course hear no audio.  All of these 
settings can be changed from within the menu system in game.

OCCLUSION
Some sound cards support audio occlusion.  Most Aureal boards do, the 
Sound Blaster Live!, and ESS Canyon3d boards all do.  You can turn it on 
in the "audio" section of the szOption.ini file under the "Use Audio 
Occlusion" key (set it to 1).  Turning it on if your hardware does not 
support occlusion will do nothing to your game, so if you're not sure and 
you want occlusion, just set it on.

KNOWN PROBLEMS
There is a known problem with the Creative Sound Blaster 128.
If you have this sound card and experience any problems with 
Slave Zero, disable the audio hardware option  (above).  This should solve
your problems.

There is a known problem with the Sound Blaster Live! 2.0 drivers.  
If you have these drivers and experience a problem with Slave Zero 
then install different drivers or disable the audio hardware option  (above).
There are Version 2.1 drivers available which do contain a fix for this problem.  
Install the new drivers and this should solve your problems.


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VIDEO

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3D REQUIRED
Slave Zero is a 3D hardware required game.  
Slave Zero supports most available 3D accelerators.  
If you experience problems:
1. 	Make sure you have the latest drivers from the card manufacturer.

Some 3D cards do not support all the features of Slave Zero.
You will get varied results on different 3D cards.  
If you have an older(2+ years) 3D card then Slave Zero may not function at all.

GLIDE NOTES
If you are playing with a 3dfx card, it is strongly recommended that you
use the glide version.  Slave Zero is a glide3x game.

D3D NOTES
The d3d version has some z-buffer inaccuracy problems making certain 
areas in the game tear.  To fix this you can do a couple of things.  
First, you can manually edit the szOptions.ini file and set the "force 
32 bit z buffer" key under the "video" section equal to 1.  On most video 
cards this will give you a higher precision z-buffer and fix the problem.  
On certain video cards however (TNT boards for example) this will not work.  
On such boards you should simply put the game into 32 bit color mode by 
changing resolutions through the menu system (640x480x32 for example).  
Keep in mind that both of these solutions changes the way your video card 
renders and in some cases could drastically effect performance.

VIDEO "LAG"
On certain video cards, in high resolutions there can be a "lag" in the 
input.  This lag makes it really difficult to play the game.  Turning the 
"Wait for V-Synch" option on in the video menu should make this lag go away.  
The "Wait for V-Synch" options can also be used if there is excessive flickering 
in the display.  The S3 Savage3d is one video card where this option can be 
used to clean up the display considerably.

3DEEP
If you have 3Deep installed on you computer, you will not be able to set 
gamma within the game.  To chance gamma, you must do it through your 3Deep 
control panel on the desktop.  If you have any problems with 3Deep in Slave 
Zero you can disable it by editing the szOptions.ini file under the "Video" 
section changing the "Use 3Deep" to 0.

RESOLUTION
Slave Zero defaults to run in low resolution (640x480). You can change
the resolution in the in-game menu.

GAMMA
If your game is especially dark or bright then you can adjust the gamma.
The gamma can be changed in the in-game menu.
Gamma does not work for all 3D cards.  If you experience problems changing
your gamma please make sure you have the latest drivers for your 3D video
card.

SCALABILITY
There are several options in the video menu that will change the quality 
of the game but hopefully give some performance back on lower end 
computers (either low end processor/memory configuration or low end video card).

MIPMAPPING
Toggling mipmapping off will free up some system memory while effecting 
visual quality of the game a bit.

SHADOWS
Toggling shadows off will free up some memory and also give a lot of 
performance back on older 3d accelerators.  Unfortunately this will 
dramatically alter the look of the game.

VIEW PORT
Changing the view port size will give some frame rate back on video 
cards that are fill rate bound.  This will not change the look of the 
game other than it will be much smaller.

CLIP PLANE
Changing the clip plane location will also help video cards that are 
fill rate bound.  With the clip plane pulled in, you may get attacked 
by enemies that aren't being drawn because they are outside the clip plane.

MRG
Turning MRG on reduces the poly count of the dynamic objects in the game.  
This also helps lower end video cards with performance.  Some game 
models (bosses especially) look odd because of their lower poly counts.


ADVANCED FEATURES
If your card supports it, Slave Zero high resolution and bumpmapping.  The follow 
are a list of boards that support both high resolutions and bumpmapping, but 
most recent boards will support them as well.

ATI Rage 128
NVida TNT and TNT2
Matrox G400
3dLabs Permedia3
 

NEW VIDEO HARDWARE/DRIVERS
If you install a new video card or in some cases even if you 
upgrade video drivers the game may need to detect your hardware 
over again so that it can fully take advantage of it.  To do this, 
simply delete the szHardware.ini file.  You will also need to edit 
the szOptions.ini file and under the "video" section, change the 
"Display Mode Wanted" key to -1.  The game will auto detect your 
video hardware again and set up in the default configuration for 
that hardware.


VIDEO CARD SPECIFIC ISSUES

TNT (nVidia)
On some Nvidia TNT cards (Viper 550 and others), playing the game for
an extended period of time may cause a fatal error in the game.  This
error is due to a driver problem in which the latest drivers should fix.  
This error will be marked by an "Out of Video Memory" error reported in the
szDebug.txt file.  If you get this error, make sure you have the latest drivers.
Look at the nVidia web site (or your card manufacturers site) for the latest drivers. 
Work-around:  If you do have the latest drivers and you're still getting 
this problem you can set the Maximum Texture Usage Per Level key in the 
video section of the szoption.ini file equal to 125829120 (just add a 0 
to the right end).  This will force the d3d renderer into a different mode 
and avoid the bug.  

ATI Rage Pro
The ATI Rage Pro is a board that does not support all the advanced 
rendering modes we need to give you the highest graphics quality for 
SlaveZero.  If you have this board or a board with similar limitations, 
some effects will not draw correctly, and some have been disabled altogether.

3dfx Voodoo1 and Voodoo2
If you are using a Voodoo based 3d accelerator we strongly recommend 
using the Glide video mode.  Using the d3d renderer 
on these cards will cause a significant performance loss.  Download the latest glide3x 
drivers from your board manufacturers web site.  The installer will set up the 
game to run the Glide version automatically.  

S3 Savage
You may experience "tearing" if using a S3 Savage card.  This may be 
fixed by changing the video option "Wait For VSynch" to ON.  This will
cause a slight performance hit, but will clean up your display.


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VIDEO CARD DRIVERS

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Because Slave Zero requires a 3d accelerated video card and supports
hardware accelerated audio, it is strongly recommended that you download
the absolute latest drivers from you hardware manufacturer.  If these
drivers are causing problems, try the reference drivers provided by 
your chip manufacturer.  

It is very important to have the correct drivers for your video card.
Without the proper drivers you may experience problems.  Be sure to 
install the driver that corresponds to you card.

You can always go to the website of the card manufacturer and download the latest
drivers or contact your card manufacturer.


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KNOWN PROBLEMS (not mentioned above)

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Quake3 reference drivers
The older 3dfx Quake3 reference drivers are not compatible with Slave Zero.

Canyon3D
We have support for the new ESS reverb technology.  If you
do not have the latest (correct) drivers for this hardware you could experience audio
problems.  If you do experience problems either get newer drivers or run the game
with audio turned off.

Renderer did not init
This is a common error message and usually means you do not have the correct video drivers.
Get the latest drivers from your chip/card web site.  For 3dfx chip sets you will usually
get best results using the reference drivers (3.x)

Voodoo3
The game may crash if the resolution is set to 800x600 when using a Voodoo3.  The latest
Glide drivers from 3dfx should fix this.

Alt-tab
If you hit alt+tab during a load screen the game will quit.  Using alt+tab during normal
game play should not cause problems.


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CONTACTING CUSTOMER SUPPORT

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Infogrames North America
You can ask for help with your Infogrames game by reaching us by Phone, Fax, 
Online and Mail:

PHONE
Infogrames can help you by phone between the following hours:
Monday - Thursday 8:00am - 5:00pm PST and
Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm PST
(408) 296-8400

INTERNET
website: 	http://www.infogrames.net/
email: 		help@infogrames.net

FAX
Faxes may be sent anytime to:  (408) 246-0231

MAIL
Infogrames North America
5300 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Suite 500
San Jose, CA   95129

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