TOCA Race Driver Demo

Instructions for getting V8 Supercars Race Driver ? Valvoline Demo to work Run the V8ValvolineDemo.exe from the CD. Just follow the on-screen install process. The V8 Supercars Race Driver Valvoline Demo will then be installed. A new folder will be created in your Start menu. You can run the Hardware setup if you would like to change the graphics settings. This is recommended before you run Race Driver. The Hardware Setup program can be found in the Codemasters/V8 Supercars Race Driver Demo folder of your Start menu. It is recommended that the game is set to 32 bit colour for the best visual performance. Once you have selected your hardware setup click Save and Play. Simulation Bonus A simulation mode is available in the demo, which gives a more realistic car handling model. This can be activated from the ?Activate Bonus? tab in the Bonus menu, within the Options menu. Activate ?Sim? as the bonus code. Points to note about V8 Supercars Race Driver Valvoline Demo Game is currently only 70 % complete and does not represent the final quality of the game. V8 Supercars Race Driver has not yet been optimised, and is subsequently running at a much lower frame rate than the final game Car and track lighting have not been finalised. Damage for cars has not been finalised. Races are limited to three laps. Minimum PC requirements PIII 700 128Mb RAM 32Mb accelerated graphics card DirectX compatible sound card 200MB free hard disk space Controls Default keys for the V8 Supercars Race Driver Valvoline Demo are the arrow keys, up, down, left and right for accelerate, brake, steer left and steer right respectively. In addition to these keys, the spacebar acts as a handbrake, the end key looks back with delete and page down to look left and look right. Supported 3D Chipsets and Manufacturer Web Sites Below are all the 3D cards supported by V8 Supercars Race Driver and a link to the Manufacturer's web-site. This may be helpful in obtaining updated drivers for your graphics card. V8 Supercars Race Driver Valvoline Demo has only been tested on GeForce 3 and 4 and ATI Radeon graphics cards. Links to the manufacturers websites can be found below; www.nvidia.com www.ati.com Operating Systems The game has only been tested on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Technical Support contact details: Email: Australian ? custservice@codemasters.com English:- custservice@codemasters.com Francais:- serviceclientele@codemasters.com Deutsch:- kundendienst@codemasters.com Or write to: Customer Services Codemasters Software P.O.Box 6 Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV47 2SH UK V8 Supercars Race Driver Website: http://www.codemasters.com/redirect/redirect.php?url=/v8racedriver/english/front.php Australian site Troubleshooting Make sure that the computer has the latest drivers for the graphics card. At this time, the latest drivers for GeForce cards are 29.42, released on 11th June 2002. Also make sure the latest DirectX 8.1 drivers are installed. The latest driver for Radeon family cards is the ?Catalyst 02.1? driver, released on 13th June 2002. Environmental gloss mapping is currently only available when using GeForce 3 or 4 cards, Radeon family cards do not support this feature at this time. Environmental gloss mapping will be incorporated into the final version of the game for all supported graphics cards. Users should refrain from using alt/tab to return to the Windows desktop, this can cause the demo to become unstable. Should users wish to return to the desktop we recommend that they quit out of the demo via the pause menu. This demo requires the latest version of DirectX. The demo will fail to run on systems running older versions of DirectX. The latest version of DirectX is available from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/directx Currently the demo does not support the saving of in-game options when it is running on Windows 98 systems. Running Audio playback software in the background may make the Game sounds become corrupted. It is therefore recommended that all other applications are closed before running Race Driver.