Eliteone Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 From the Readme file Nolf 2 game: KNOWN ISSUES =================== Global: Make sure that all applications that are running in the background such as Virus scanners, Desktop Utilities (menus/toolbars), Media Players, and chat programs are disabled before running No One Lives Forever 2. Task-switching with ALT-TAB or the Windows Key back to the desktop while running the game is not recommended. WINDOWS® 2000/XP: Windows XP users must have access to the Computer Administrator's account in order to install and play No One Lives Forever 2. Windows 2000 users please download the latest service pack (Service Pack 3) before you play No One Lives Forever 2. Striking the Shift key five times may cause the 'Stick Key' feature to become enabled in Windows 2000. If this happens, the feature will task switch to a desktop dialogue box with options related to this feature, including one to disable it entirely. WINDOWS® 98/ME: If you're experiencing the game not restarting just after exiting the game, initiate the Windows Update program that's usually located on top of the Start Programs Menu. Make sure that you have all the Critical and Recommended Updates to resolve this issue. GRAPHICS: SYSTEMS WITH VIA CHIPSETS: Always update the 4 in 1 drivers to avoid possible instability problems with your graphics card. You can find these here: http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/4in1/VIA_4in1_443v.zip ATI RADEON SERIES: Mouse cursor flickers on screen during game after changing in-game resolution. Make sure that the latest Radeon Catalyst drivers are installed. Also going back into the menus and then back into the game will also correct this issue. Detail textures currently appear washed out and dull on all Radeon cards. A future update from ATI should correct this. In the meantime, it is recommended that you turn Detail Textures OFF in the Display options menu under Performance. ATI RADEON 7200: Textures on very thin polys (such as power lines) may appear to be broken into small pieces. ATI RADEON 8500: When the hardware cursor option is enabled, the mouse cursor may appear black and white or appear corrupted. Also, the position of the cursor may be slightly off after changing performance options. Try disabling the hardware cursor from the "Options" Launcher to correct this issue. Some detail brushes such as intelligence items may disappear when viewed from a distance. Lockups may occur in some cut scenes and during certain gameplay situations. ATI has fixed this issue with a special driver version. You can obtain this driver at http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4094.html ATI RADEON 9OOO SERIES: During cinematics, semi translucent bars may appear at the top and bottom of the screen. Please make sure that the Texture Quality option under the ATI Direct 3d settings which can be found under Display Settings is set to highest. MATROX PARHELIA 512: Some very early versions of this card may exhibit missing textures on some surfaces when weapons are fired or the key chain flashlight is used. During certain cinematics, shadows on the faces and necks of models will appear to be very jagged. Frequent lockups may also occur with all driver revisions for this card prior to v1.01.00.080. Please be sure to update to the latest driver prior to playing the game. NVIDIA GEFORCE CHIPSETS: Running the game with outdated drivers may result in crashes during gameplay. It is highly recommended that you first update to the latest detonator drivers available before playing. Refer to Section V. for more information on the latest drivers available. UNSUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS: Any video card that's not equipped with Hardware T&L (Transform and Lighting) will suffer either poor performance or complete malfunction. Even though the Matrox Millennium G550 and S3 Savage Chipsets are known to have T&L support, these cards only support this feature through their "Software" and do not meet the minimum requirement of support through "Hardware." Please review Section V. for the supported Video Card Chipsets list. SOUND: GENERAL: If the in-game sounds and dialogue (voices) do not play, or there are problems with the quality of these sounds, then please try each of the following steps (in order) before playing again. Note that you should only try one solution at a time, since trying them all can greatly reduce the overall sound quality of the game unneccesarily. 1. Make sure that you have the latest drivers available for your sound hardware installed. These can usually be found on the manufacturer's website. 2. From your main installation folder (Default C:\Program Files\Fox\No One Lives forever 2), double click on the file named WMFADist.exe, and then follow on-screen instructions. This will manually install the audio codec that is required by the game. 3. From the in-game sound options menu,change the sound quality option from high to low, or vice-versa. 4. Refer to the sections below for specific troubleshooting information for your particular sound card. 5. From the Nolf2 launcher application, click on the "options" button and then click on the box next to "Disable Sound Filters". 6. From the Nolf2 launcher application, click on the "options" button and then click on the box next to "Disable Hardware Sound". Please note that since No One Lives Forever uses an MP3 codec for sound, the Nimo codec pack may cause speech and sound to drop out completely. Please uninstall the Nimo codec pack before installing No One Lives Forever 2. If you have already installed the game, please uninstall both the Nimo codec pack and the game, and then reinstall the game only. Also, subtitles will not appear in the game if you do not have a soundcard, or if your soundcard is not detected, or if you have disabled sound completely in the advanced options menu. WINDOWS 98: There have been some reports of static during hitches in game performance on various sound cards. We're still looking into this. SOUND BLASTER LIVE! SERIES: If you are using DirectX 9, you may experience performance problems when enemy gunfire is heard. This is a driver issue. To fix the problem, lower your sound hardware acceleration level in the control panel or in the sound section of the Dxdiag utility. You may experience missing sound effects and speech with older drivers (v.4.xx). It's highly recommended that you update to the latest series of drivers (v.5.xx) to correct this issue. You can check your current driver version as follows: 1. Click on the "Run" option from the Windows start menu. 2. Type "Dxdiag" (Without the quotes) in the command line and press <Enter> This will initiate the DirectX Diagnostic Tool Menu. 3. Select the "Sound" tab to see information on your sound hardware. 4. In the right-hand column of this window is your sound card driver information. SOUND BLASTER PCI 128: If you’re experiencing speech and audio dropout, please try the following: Initiate the NOLF2 Launcher, click on options, click on the "Disable Sound Filters" option. Also check on the Creative website and obtain the latest driver. SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY: Weapon fire and AI voices may stop playing during heavy firefights. An updated driver for the Audigy will fix this issue. Also, EAX sound filtering effects on some weapon sounds may not reset correctly after climbing out of water or other areas. HERCULES GAME THEATER XP: The volume of certain sound effects may seem unnecessarily loud. A future driver from Hercules may correct this issue. DIAMOND MONSTER SOUND I&II: Music throughout the game may be muffled when using these cards. Currently the manufacturer does not supply DirectX 8.1 audio drivers. NVIDIA NFORCE AUDIO: All aspects of game audio suffer from high-pitched static and popping noises. An updated driver (V1.13) should correct this problem and can be found on NVIDIA's website. (www.nvidia.com) TURTLE BEACH SANTA CRUZ: If sounds seem missing or the volume of certain sounds changes erratically throughout the game, please install the latest driver (currently v.4161) from the manufacturer's web site. This should correct the problem. AUREAL VORTEX I&II: The last available drivers for these cards with Vortex chipsets are not fully Direct 8.1 compatible. Therefore, these cards cannot be supported in NOLF 2. Users of these cards may experience muffled background music, and missing or muffled sound and dialogue. PERIPHERALS: LOGITECH MICE: When the scroll wheel is set to a special function in Mouseware, activating the scroll wheel during gameplay may have undesired results. Setting the scroll wheel's function to "Middle Mouse Button" in Mouseware should resolve the issue. ADVANCED OPTIONS If you're encountering problems running the game, you can try tweaking some advanced settings in the "Options" window on the game launcher (double-click NOLF2.exe and click the "OPTIONS" button). Please note that this is for advanced users only, since tweaking these settings could very well create other problems in the game. DISABLE SOUND If this box is checked, there will be no sound effects or subtitles in the game. Also, dialog and lip-synching will not play correctly. Music will still play. If you are experiencing problems running the game and suspect your sound card may be the cause, you might check this box and see if the problem goes away. If it does then the problem may be due to a problem with your sound hardware or drivers. DISABLE MUSIC If this box is checked, there will be no dynamic DirectMusic in the game. Please use this option for troubleshooting purposes only. DISABLE MOVIES If this box is checked, the intro logo movies will not be shown. Use this if your system is having trouble playing these movies. DISABLE HARDWARE SOUND If this box is checked, this will disable DirectSound 3D sound support and could cause performance issues. DISABLE ANIMATED LOAD SCREENS If this box is checked, this will disable the animated loading screen. DISABLE TRIPLE BUFFERING If this box is checked, video output will not be triple buffered. With certain video cards, this may help performance. DISABLE JOYSTICKS Disables input from joysticks and gamepads. Certain joysticks and gamepads may interfere with normal mouse or keyboard control in the game. If you suspect this is occurring, checking this box before running the game may resolve the problem. DISABLE HARDWARE CURSOR If the mouse pointer is missing, flickering or otherwise distorted in the game menus, checking this box may fix the problem. DISABLE SOUND FILTERS If this box is checked, sound filtering effects (reverb) will be disabled. Only cards with EAX 2.0 support will benefit from this feature. If you experience problems such as static when firing a weapon underwater, you may need to play with sound filtering disabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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