BLADE OF BARKNESS Introduction To enter the world of Blade of Darkness, double-click the icon on your desktop. Once the game has loaded, select New Game to enter the Travellers’ Camp. Press LEFT or RIGHT to fly around, focussing on each Traveller in turn, then press USE to possess the person you want to inhabit for the duration of your quest. Each Champion has different combat and weapon abilities, and their skills will develop at different rates, so choose carefully. When you have you confirmed your choice, select Continue to go into battle or Back to make another choice of Champion. Select Enter Tutorial to go to the training level. Ianna’s Champion can only conquer the forces of chaos if in the hands of a competent guide. Run through the tutorials to get used to Moving, Attacking, Defending, etc. Loading and Saving To save a game during your travels, press ESC to go to the Main Menu, select Game, then Save Game. The number of times you save is recorded with the file, so play boldly to earn respect. To load a game, go to Game in the Main Menu and select Load Game. Select the game you want using UP or DOWN, then press USE. Installation Place the Blade of Darkness disc in your CD drive and close the door. Wait a few seconds for the drive to initialise. Go to the Start Menu and select RUN. Type D:\setup (replace ‘D’ with the drive letter of your CD) and hit [ENTER]. The Wizard will appear; follow the on-screen instructions to progress through the Installation.. Minimum and Recommended Specification Minimum Requirements Windows 95 (not A), 98, ME or 2000 Pentium II 400 CPU 64MB RAM 16 bit DirectX compatible Soundcard DirectX 8.0 compatible 3D graphics card with 8Mb RAM 8x CD-ROM 750Mb Hard Drive space (after installation) Recommended Specification Windows 95 (not A), 98, ME or 2000 Pentium III 500 CPU 128MB RAM 16 bit DirectX compatible Soundcard DirectX 8.0 compatible 3D graphics card with 32Mb RAM 24x CD-ROM 750Mb Hard Drive space (after installation) Supported 3D chipsets 3dfx Voodoo 2, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4, Voodoo5 3D labs Permedia 3 ATI Rage 128, Radeon Matrox G200, G400 Intel i740 Nvidia Riva TNT, Riva TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce 2 S3 Savage3D, Savage 4, Savage2000 Troubleshooting Performance issues If you are experiencing low frame rates, then we suggest that you change the resolution in the setup to 640x480x16, texture detail should then be set to LOW and the then the mip-mapping can be turned off. If you are still experiencing low frame rates, shadows and gore can be turned off from the in-game options menu. Turning the sound device to Miles fast 2D positional audio in setup and the sound quality to low in-game will also improve frame rate by about 10%. If you encounter any problems, please ensure that you have the latest drivers installed for your card. These should be obtained from the card or chipset manufacturer. If you increase the settings of your display options and experience decreased performance and have the latest drivers, we recommend setting your Display options back to their defaults. Card issues 3DFX Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3 The 3DFX Banshee and VooDoo 3 have problems displaying partical effects. This is noticeable in game when water effects are on screen. All Matrox cards If you are experiencing problems with the game e.g. random crashes or textural errors then it is advisable to use the 5.52 drivers from the matrox site. S3 Savage 2000 If you are experiencing problems then it is recommended that the ViperII-win9x-95103 drivers be used. Resolutions above 1152x864 should not be used. Please note:- Windows 2000's control panel uninstaller should not be used as this will leave game save files on the hard disk. Swap file We recommend that the user has at least 250mb free hard disk space after installation. Blade of Darkness should perform fine with less than 250mb free, in order to gain maximum performance from this product a larger swap file will be beneficial. Close down any applications before running. Direct X If you try to run the game without DirectX8 installed, Blade of Darkness may not run correctly. Technical support contact details Questions relating to Codemasters' games should be e-mailed to Customer Service at: custservice@codemastersusa.com. USA Technical Support Questions relating to Codemasters' games can be made to the following numbers: Tel: (559) 683-4468 (8:00am - 5:00pm PST / Mon - Fri) Fax: (559) 683-3633 WEBSITE INFORMATION www.codemasters.com © 2001 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ("Codemasters"). All rights reserved. Codemasters is a registered trademark of Codemasters. Developed by Rebel Act Studios.
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