DUNE 2000: LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS! LATE BREAKING NEWS Copyright (c) 1998 Westwood Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. "Westwood Studios" is a trademark of Westwood Studios, Inc. "Dune" is a trademark and copyright of the Dino DeLaurentis Corporation. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing, Inc. All rights reserved. August 8, 1998 For latest goodies, news and updates visit WWW.WESTWOOD.COM Contents: 1. General Information. 1.1. Microsoft DirectX. 2. Troubleshooting. 2.1. Known Video Card Problems 2.1.1. Error Message "Set Cooperative Level Returned - 2005532097" 2.1.2. Display only appears in top 1/3rd of screen. 2.1.3. Video Flicker during play. 2.1.4. "Scratchy" or distorted display. 2.2. Known Sound Card Problems 2.3. Install Problems. 2.3.1. Lockup during "Registering Dune 2000 and creating shortcuts in Start Menu" 2.3.2. Lockup while "Installation Complete" is displayed. 2.4. Uninstalling Dune 2000. 2.5. Virtual Memory Settings. 2.6. Microsoft PowerToys. 2.7. Microsoft Home Mouse and Natural Keyboard. 2.8. Autoplay. 2.9. 16 bit CD-ROM drivers. 2.10. Microsoft Office Toolbar. 2.11. Game or audio stutters after being paused. 2.12. Choppy movie performance. 2.13. Increasing performance on minimum spec systems. 2.14. Westwood Online. 2.14.1. Duplicate Channel columns. 2.14.2. 4 Player Internet Games 2.15. Multi-player problems. 2.16. Power Saving Modes. 2.17. HP Pavilion Computers.. 2.17.1. Background Applications 2.17.2. LT Win Modem 2.18. Game Updates and Patches. 2.19. Playing Without a Dune 2000 CD (spawning). 3. Gameplay Notes 3.1. Infantry Only Areas 3.2. Capturing Enemy Buildings - Part I 3.3. Capture Enemy Buildings - Part II 3.4. Spice controls the universe 3.5. Keep an eye out! 3.6. Turrets 3.7. Infantry 3.8. Use your strengths 3.9. Deviators 3.10. Hot keys 3.11 Multiplayer Handicapping 4. Unit Comparisons 1. General Information. 1.1. Microsoft DirectX. The Windows 95 version of Dune 2000 is a Microsoft DirectX application. Version 5.0a of Microsoft DirectX is included on the CD and you have the option to install it when Dune 2000 is installed. If you have difficulty running Windows 95 after these new Microsoft DirectX drivers have been installed, please contact your local Microsoft subsidiary, or write: Microsoft Customer Sales and Service, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA USA telephone: 1-800-426-9400 International telephone: ++1-206-882-8080 All Microsoft DirectX drivers are located in the Dxsetup folder off of the root of the CD. To reinstall the Microsoft DirectX drivers go into the Dxsetup folder and run Dxsetup.exe. You can explore the CD by choosing the "Explore the CD" option in the Autoplay title screen. Microsoft DirectX Direct Play. If you already have DirectX version 5.0 installed and did not install the DirectX drivers from the Dune 2000 CD please ensure you install the Direct Play 5.0a patch from the Dxsetup folder off of the root of the CD. This patches some bugs in the original Direct Play 5.0 release and will not affect any other products you may have that use Directx. 2. Troubleshooting. 2.1. Known Video Card Problems. Most video display problems can be corrected by installing the latest drivers for your particular card. Please consult your video card documentation for details on how to get the latest drivers for your card. Here are some hints and tips for specific video cards found while testing Dune 2000 under Windows 95 and Windows 98. 2.1.1. Error Message "Set Cooperative Level Returned - 2005532097" This message will appear on older video cards that do not support hardware page flipping. To solve the problem create a shortcut and add the option "-f" to the command line. A shortcut is created by right clicking on the Dune2000 program icon and selecting "Create Shortcut". Right click on the shortcut and select "Properties". Click on the end of the "target" line and add the new command line option. 2.1.2. Display only appears in top 1/3rd of screen. If this happens please add the "-g" option to the command line for Dune 2000. Please refer to 2.1.1 for details on how to do this. 2.1.3. Video Flicker during play If the video display flickers during the game every 20 seconds or so then this can be prevented by adding "-f" to the command line for Dune 2000. Please refer to 2.1.1 for details on how to do this . 2.1.4. "Scratchy" or distorted display. If the video display looks scratchy and there is no static image then please use the "-g" command line to fix this. You can also make sure that the driver for your monitor is correct as the monitor being incorrectly set for display modes it cannot handle causes this problem. 2.2 Known Sound Card Problems Crystal PnP Audio System on Dell Dimension XPS R400 The factory sound card settings on this system appear to be incompatible with Dune 2000, which will drop back to the Windows desktop, sometimes with a dialog stating, "Unable to create Direct Sound object". We have found that the following adjustments allow Dune 2000 to work perfectly on this system: Open the Control Panel under Settings on the Start menu. Open the Multimedia applet Click the Audio tab Select CS4236/37/38 as the Preferred Device Check the "Use Only Preferred Devices" option. Close the Multimedia applet and the Control Panel. 2.3. Install Problems 2.3.1. Lockup during "Registering Dune 2000 and creating shortcuts in Start Menu" Should the install program lockup while registering the Dune 2000 application then you may want to run the install program with the "-a" option. However this means that to play Internet games you must register the WOLAPI.DLL manually. The easiest way to do this is to go to start -> find and find the file regsvr32.exe. Then open the folder containing the Westwood Internet components, the default is c:\westwood\internet. Drag the wolapi.dll onto the regsvr32.exe icon. Wolapi.dll will now be registered. 2.3.2 Lockup while "Installation complete" is displayed. If the message "Installation complete" does not go away and closing the window produces the error "Setup is incomplete ..." please restart the setup application with the command switch "- b". To do this go to start->run, click browse and then locate the Dune 2000 CD. The setup.exe is on the root of the CD. Click OK and then add " -b" to the end of the line. It would look like this if your CDROM is your D: drive : "d:\setup.exe -b". 2.4. Uninstalling Dune 2000. After running the Uninstall program, if the Dune 2000 group is still present, try rebooting your computer. This should clean up the Dune 2000 start menu folder. 2.5. Virtual Memory Settings. Dune 2000 may need to use more RAM than is present on your system. Windows 95 automatically takes care of this by using what is known as "Virtual Memory" - it uses space on your hard disk to simulate the memory it needs and swaps data back and forth from your hard disk as required. Windows 95 allows you to manually set the amount of hard drive space it uses for Virtual Memory: WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT DO THIS! To let Windows 95 manage the Virtual Memory, go to the Windows 95 START menu, select SETTINGS\CONTROL PANEL, then double-click SYSTEM, click PERFORMANCE\FILE SYSTEM\VIRTUAL MEMORY and then select "Let Windows manage my virtual memory settings (recommended)". 2.6. Microsoft PowerToys. If you have the Microsoft PowerToys system extensions installed on your system (including QuickRes and FlexiCD) you may experience excessive accessing of the CD followed by system lockup. If this happens, you should remove the Microsoft PowerToys while playing Dune 2000. 2.7. Microsoft Home Mouse and Natural Keyboard. If you are using a Microsoft Home Mouse, the Microsoft Natural Keyboard or are using Microsoft's IntelliPoint Tools and Controls Software, having the "Sonar" setting on under "Visibility" in the "Mouse Properties" section in the "Control Panel" can cause Dune 2000 to crash. Please turn this setting off when playing Dune 2000. Using the 'point' feature of the Microsoft keyboard may cause mouse trails to be left on screen. Do not use this feature while playing Dune 2000. 2.8. Autoplay. If your CD does not Autoplay when inserted in the drive, you may have this feature disabled. To Enable Autoplay, right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties' then 'Device Manager'. Select your CD-ROM drive and click 'Properties'. Select 'Settings' and check the 'Auto insert notification' box. 2.9. 16 bit CD-ROM drivers. Dune 2000 may fail to start if there is a 16 bit CD-ROM driver loaded from the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS. If you have references to MSCDEX or equivalent drivers then try removing them from your autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Windows 95 does not generally need these drivers to work and in most cases will actually perform better without them. 2.10. Microsoft Office Toolbar. If you make use of this feature of Microsoft Office and it appears over the game screen when playing Dune 2000 then you will have to disable the Office Toolbar before playing. 2.11. Game or audio stutters after being paused. If the game is left in the paused state with the game options menu up for an extended period of time, performance may be reduced for a while after play is resumed. This is due to Windows 95 giving the game's resources to other tasks while it is not being played. A possible symptom of poor video performance is that of the ...
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