Medal of Honor Allied Assault(tm) Spearhead Multiplayer Demo Version 1.0
Read Me File
October 24, 2002
Thank you for downloading the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo.
Installation Instructions
To install the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo:
1) Browse to the file you downloaded and extract its contents.
2) One of the extracted files is "Setup.exe".
3) Double mouse-click "Setup.exe".
4) Follow the instructions that appear, to install the demo.
Uninstalling Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Multiplayer Demo
Windows 95,98, and ME
To uninstall the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Settings".
3) Choose "Control Panel".
4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs"
5) Highlight "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo" and
click the "Add/Remove..." button in the lower right.
6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo.
You can also uninstall the following way:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Programs".
3) Choose "EA GAMES".
4) Choose "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Multiplayer
Demo"
5) Click on "Uninstall MOHAAS Multiplayer Demo"
Windows XP: Home Edition and Professional
To uninstall the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Net
demo:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Settings".
3) Choose "Control Panel".
4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs"
5) Highlight "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo" and
click the "Remove" button below its name.
6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo.
Gameplay Instructions
All controls are available and customizable from the
"Controls"
Menu accessible from the Main Menu. Here is a breakdown of the
default controls.
FUNCTION: KEY/MOUSE USED
Primary Attack: Left mouse button
Secondary Attack: Right mouse button
Reload: r
Move Forward: w
Move Backward: s
Strafe Left: a
Strafe Right: d
Use: e
Jump/Stand Up: Space
Crouch: Left Ctrl
Turn Left: Move mouse left
Turn Right: Move mouse right
Look Up: Move mouse up
Look Down: Move mouse down
Run/Walk: Left Shift
Next Weapon: Mouse Wheel Up
Previous Weapon: Mouse Wheel Down
Holster Weapon: q
Pistol (Colt 45): 1
Rifle (Springfield): 2
SMG (Thompson): 3
MG (BAR): 4
Grenade: 5
Heavy (Panzerschreck): 6
Binoculars: 7
Important Notes:
-Health Packs
Make sure to either walk into or center your view on and
activate the "use" key on these items when in need of
health. Health packs are rectangles with a red cross and
restore a large amount of health. They appear next to
dead bodies in multiplayer.
-Mounted Machine Gun
There is a mounted machine gun that you can walk up to
and activate with the "use" key. To stop using this
mounted gun, type the "use" key again.
-Secondary Attack
Most weapons use the secondary attack. Sniper Rifle zooms
and grenades are thrown a much shorter distance with
secondary attack. Other weapons bash as a secondary
attack.
System Requirements
MINIMUM CONFIGURATION
Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 98, or Windows 95 (Windows
2000
and Windows NT are not supported)
450 MHz Intel Pentium II or 500 MHz AMD Athlon processor
128 MB RAM
8x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
135 MB free hard disk space (additional space required for
Windows
swap-file, DirectX 8.0 installation and GameSpy installation).
16 MB OpenGL capable video card using an Nvidia GeForce3,
Nvidia
GeForce2, Nvidia GeForce 256, Nvidia Riva TNT2, Nvidia Riva
TNT,
ATI Radeon, ATI Rage 128 Pro, ATI Rage 128, PowerVR3 Kyro II,
or
PowerVR Kyro chipset with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible
driver
DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
Keyboard
Mouse
RECOMMENDED
700 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
32 MB or greater supported OpenGL capable video card with
OpenGL
and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver
GameSpy Arcade (to locate servers to play on)
The following 16MB or greater 3D accelerators are not fully
supported and do not work properly with the game:
-3Dfx Voodoo 4 and 5
No intro movies play. Various textures are corrupted.
Breakable windows are opaque until broken. Once
broken they have a corrupted texture.
-3Dfx Voodoo 3
Various textures are corrupted. Breakable windows are
opaque until broken. Once broken they have a corrupted
texture. Transparent red bomb placements are invisible.
-3Dfx Voodoo Banshee cards
-Matrox G400 and G450
Frame rate is often below 10 frames per second even at
the lowest video settings. Level load times are longer
than normal.
-Nvidia Vanta
These older cards yield a frame rate that is often
below 10 frames per second even at the lowest video
settings.
-PowerVR NEON 250 cards:
Video Logic PowerVR Neon 250
-S3 Savage 2000 cards:
Diamond Viper II
-S3 Savage 4 cards:
Diamond Stealth III S540
Diamond Stealth III S540 Extreme
-SiS 300 cards
The following sound card isn't supported:
-Ensoniq SoundScape PNP
The following sound cards have known problems:
-Diamond Monster Sound MX 400
Requires turning off "DirectSound Acceleration" in the
driver. See the detailed explanation under
"Troubleshooting."
-Creative Labs Audigy
Currently hardware acceleration for this card does not
work correctly.
Hard Drive Space
135 MB of free hard drive space is required to install the
demo.
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.
Installing GameSpy Arcade
GameSpy Arcade allows you to easily find and connect to
servers
running Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Multiplayer
Demo games.
To install, go to the location you installed the multiplayer
demo and
look inside the following folder "redistgamespy" and run the
file located within called "ArcadeInstallMOHAAD108fEA.EXE".
Simply follow the instructions that appear.
Running Demo with GameSpy Arcade
How to Play Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo in
GameSpy Arcade:
You can play Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo online
through GameSpy Arcade, which comes conveniently bundled with
the
demo. Once you have installed GameSpy Arcade (see section
directly above if
you have not done so yet) do the following:
Launch GameSpy Arcade and go to the Medal of Honor Allied
Assault
Spearhead Multiplayer Demo Room: Click on the GameSpy Arcade
link in your
Start Menu. When the software starts, youll see a list of
games
and more along the left-hand side. Medal of Honor Allied
Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo Room will appear on the left under the Demos
heading. Theres plenty to do, but theres time for that later:
Click on the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo button
on the left to enter the Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo room. It will appear under the DEMOS
listings.
Find and Join a Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo
Server: Once youre in the Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo room you can meet or greet other players and
find
servers. The top half of the application will list all of the
available servers, including the number of people playing and
your
connection speed (measured by something called ping. The lower
your ping, the better.) Double-click on a server of your
choice to
join. Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Multiplayer Demo
will launch
and automatically connect you to the server you selected. Let
the
fun begin!
Problems?
If you have problems using Arcade, whether installing the
program,
registering it, or using it in conjunction with Medal of Honor
Allied Assault Spearhead Multiplayer Demo, consult our help
pages,
located at
http://www.gamespyarcade.com/help/ or e-mail us by
using the
form located at
http://www.gamespyarcade.com/support/contact.shtml.
Additional Features
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.
Improving Gameplay Performance
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 the player will
appear.
FULL means that you will see both the hands and the weapon you
are
holding during gameplay. The less 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.
Troubleshooting
DirectX 8.0
-MOHAAS requires that you have DirectX 8.0 or higher to
run the game.
As this is known to resolve a number of video card and
other issues.
Previous versions of DirectX are not fully supported. You
can get
DirectX through Microsofts website.
Windows XP
-If you are using Windows XP, you must have administrator
rights to
install and run Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo.
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
available for Windows 95 and is called "opengl95.exe".
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
Spearhead Multiplayer Demo:
1) Exit from Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo 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
Spearhead
Multiplayer Demo without a problem.
Other Issues
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.
Dedicated Server:
- We have included a stand alone dedicated server
executable with this demo. It is
located in the demo directory and is called:
moh_spearhead_server.exe.
- To assist you in running a dedicated server, there is a
default server configuration
file named server.cfg also located in the demo
directory and is commented.
Please consult this file if are interested in
customizing the dedicated server settings.
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
Multiplayer Demo.
Useful Web Sites
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Keep your Windows installation up to date.
http://www.cmohs.org
The official site of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
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