Hard Drive Space
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Previous complete installation of:
Medal of Honor Allied Assault(tm)
600 MB of free hard drive space is required to install the game.
More space is also needed for save games. Each save game is nearly
0.5 MB and there are 9 single-player levels in the game. At the
start of each level a new auto-save game is created. So another
30 MB of space is a good idea for both auto saves and manually
saved games.
Additionally, Windows will require its own free hard drive space
for its operating system (virtual memory). The amount of space
required varies from 100 MB to 250 MB. If you have less than
250 MB free space you may encounter the following message in an
error dialog:
"Ran out of virtual memory"
If you encounter this message, free up some hard drive space.
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Additional Features Missing from the Manual
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Multiplayer Feature
You now have the ability to kick team killers from the multiplayer games via vote. In a
multiplayer game when friendly fire is turned on you can call for a vote to kick same team
killers off of the server.
Resetting the Sound Quality
If you reset the sound quality in the Sound Options section they will not take place until
you exit the game and restart.
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Improving Gameplay Performance
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Some machines will benefit from experimenting with your
video/sound options:
- From the Main Menu choose the "Options" menu signified
by some electronic equipment towards the left side on
the table. Then select the "Video" menu, select "Texture
Detail" and choose "LOW".
- Also from the "Video" menu uncheck the "WALL DECALS"
check box. This will prevent the game from creating
bullet marks on walls and should improve performance.
- Try reducing your video resolution to 640x480 or even
512x384 in your "Video" menu. The lower the resolution,
the easier it is for your computer to run the game.
- From the "Video" menu you can try lowering your color
depth from 32 to 16 bit.
- Video cards with less than 64MB Video memory cannot set
texture detail to high and texture color depth to 32 bit simultaneously.
These cards can get very poor performance at times, so lower your
texture detail and/or lower your texture depth to 16 bit.
- From the "Advanced" menu under the "Options" menu try
turning the "SHADOWS" down to "simple" or "none". Note that on
some machines setting to Complex will cause your frame rate to
drop by up to one half.
- In Advanced Video Options you can change your View
Model. This allows one to choose how much of their own
player model is shown.
NONE means player's arm and weapon will not appear.
GUN ONLY means the gun and not the arms of Sgt Barnes will appear.
FULL means that you will see both Sgt Barnes' hands and the weapon
he is holding during gameplay. The less of Sgt Barnes that is showing,
the faster the game should run.
- If you are using the Nvidia GeForce chipsets, it is recommended that
you set your Digital Vibrance setting to low or medium dependent on
preference. By doing so, there is much more of a contrast to the colors
which, in turn, adds a lot to the ambience. Results: the lighting really pops
out and adds increased production value.
You can set your Digital Vibrance by doing the following:
-Right click on your desktop
-Choose Properties
-Choose Settings
-Choose Advanced
-Choose Color Correction
-Digital Vibrance is located at the top of the Color Correction box
The best results were viewed by setting this on low.
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Troubleshooting
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Windows XP
-If you are using Windows XP, you must have administrator rights
to install and run Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead. If
you have administrator rights, and wish to give a "limited user"
administrator rights, you can do this in "Users" section of the
Windows XP Control Panel.
Video Card Drivers
-Some video card drivers do not support OpenGL correctly. Typical
problems that may occur with these drivers include:
- Crashing on starting up
- Crashing when changing video resolutions
- Corrupted textures
- Garbage artifacts on screen
- Unexpected bright flashing on screen
- Unusually slow performance.
The solution is to go to your video card manufacturer's website
and download updated drivers for your card. It is highly
recommended that, given an option, you download and install
Microsoft-certified (WHQL) drivers.
-Video Resolution of 1600x1200
A resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels is not fully supported and has
been found to have problems with various video cards. If the game
crashes you can run in safe mode and adjust your resolution back
to a stable and desirable setting.
-Video Resolution of 1152x864
A resolution of 1152 x 864 pixels has been found to have problems
with various video cards. In this resolution the program may appear
to be running in a windowed application. If this is unacceptable
please adjust your resolution back to a stable and desirable setting.
-Win95 OpenGL Fix
Users of Windows 95 and Windows 95a may get a missing dll error.
The error message occurs when starting the game on either of these
operating systems stating, "Error Starting Program - A required
.DLL file, GLU32.dll, was not found." This is a result of the
OpenGL runtime libraries for Windows95 not being bundled with the
earlier versions of Windows 95. There is an OpenGL v.1.1 patch
for Windows 95 available on Disk 2 of Medal of Honor Allied
Assault. It is located in the "Win95OpenGLfix" folder and is
called "opengl95.exe". Simply run this file from the CD. Once this
OpenGL update is installed the game will run fine on Windows 95
and Windows 95a.
-Dual Monitors
Dual monitors are not supported. Disabling the secondary video
card will allow the game to run with dual monitors.
Sound Card Drivers
-Diamond Monster Sound MX 400
How to fix the MX 400 for use by Medal of Honor Allied Assault:
1) Exit from Medal of Honor Allied Assault if you are
running the game.
2) Open up the "Diamond Monster Sound" utility from
the toolbar; this is a small red and white icon
near the clock.
3) Make sure the "Enable DirectSound Acceleration"
checkbox is off.
4) Click on the "Apply And Exit" button. You should
be able to run Medal of Honor Allied Assault
without a problem.
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Other Issues
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Multiplayer:
-The IPX Protocol is not supported, only TCP/IP is.
-Players can, on rare occasion, turn invisible in multiplayer.
You may see another player's model appear over a spawn point
stuck in mid-stride. That player will be able to move around and
will appear invisible to you although he may be visible to other
players. Simply disconnect and re-connect to the server to fix
this.
Keyboard Controls:
-Some PC keyboards cannot recognize certain combinations of 3 or
more simultaneously pressed keys. This is an inherent problem
unrelated to Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead.
Advanced Console Commands from the Advanced Options menu:
-By default the advanced console will not be available
unless the option is checked in the "Options" menu. From this
console you will be able to make advanced console commands. The
normal console is active by default and allows you to post
messages to everyone else in multiplayer.
Listen Servers (non-dedicated servers) in Multiplayer
-There is a known issue where the player on the server may
become invisible. This occurs most frequently on a Free For All
type game.
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Electronic Arts Copyright
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Software and Documentation ฉ 2002 Electronic Arts Inc.