Delta Force Land Warrior Readme

Thank you for purchasing Delta Force Land Warrior.

Contents:
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New Features
Corrections to the Manual 
Recommended Sound Setup
Recommended Video Setup
Virtual Memory
General Troubleshooting 
Technical Support
Readme Reward


New Features:
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Delta Force Land Warrior has many new features that differ from Delta Force 2:

* Hardware Acceleration: Compatible with most current video cards.
* In-game save: You have 3 save slots per mission accessible by pressing the F11 
key.
* More weapons to choose from: Weapons are better balanced for gameplay.
* Character Special Abilities: If you prefer Delta Force 2 play style (no abilities) 
you can turn off the special abilities in the Player Settings screen.
* Character Autorun key: Press the Scroll Lock key to toggle running on/off.
* NovaWorld Ranks and Awards: Compare your official NovaWorld Stats with 
other players.
* In-game rank abbreviations: Player list and score tally show rank abbreviations for NovaWorld stat games.


Corrections to the Manual:
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Please note the following last minute changes to Delta Force Land Warrior that 
were not documented in the user manual:

New multiplayer hosting features (found in Multiplayer Hosting Options screen):

Drop Weapon Disappear: This option will cause weapons to disappear a few 
moments after they are dropped to the ground.
Respawn with Primary: After dying, you do not respawn with your primary 
weapon unless this option is turned on.


Recommended Sound Setup:
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Before running Delta Force, adjust your system volume to a comfortable level.

Delta Force Land Warrior produces an Interactive 3D audio sound track designed 
to work with Dolby Surround.  If your speakers or amplifier have a Dolby 
Surround or Pro Logic option, you may select it.

If you have a Sound Blaster Live with 4 speakers connected, you should verify 
that "Creative Multi-Speaker Surround (CMSS)" is set to "Movie Mode" under 
the speaker options.


Recommended Video Setup:
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Initially adjust the Audio/Video Options depending on your system.  You may 
adjust these later for better performance or quality.

32-Meg or higher Video Card & at least 160 Megs of System Ram
Resolution: 800x600
Terrain Detail: High
Object Detail: High
Color Depth: 32-bits

16-Meg or higher Video Card & at least 96 Megs of System Ram
Resolution: 800x600
Terrain Detail: High
Object Detail: Medium
Color Depth: 32-bits

8-Meg or higher Video Card & at least 64 Megs of System Ram
Resolution: 640x480
Terrain Detail: Medium
Object Detail: Medium
Color Depth: 16-bits

4-Meg Video Card & at least 64 Megs of System Ram
Resolution: 640x480
Terrain Detail: Low
Object Detail: Low
Color Depth: 16-bits

Resolution: This is the Display Resolution for the game. The game menus are 
always 640x480. Higher resolutions require more video card memory and may 
run slower.

Terrain Detail: This is the sharpness of the terrain. Higher settings require more 
video card memory.

Object Detail: This is the sharpness of the objects when viewed close up.  Higher 
settings require more video card memory and system memory and may affect 
mission load times.

Color Depth: This is the Display Bit-Depth. 32-bits will require more video card 
memory but will slightly improve the smoothness of the colors over the 16-bit 
setting.  This option will have no effect on a 16-bit video card such as the Voodoo 
3.

Terrain Geometry: Setting this to high adjusts the terrain detail.  This requires more video memory and may run slower.



Virtual Memory:
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Delta Force Land Warrior requires that you have enough space available in your 
Windows swap file, in order to load all the necessary data for each mission.

To play with all detail settings on HIGH, you will need a minimum of 140Mb of 
available hard drive space, or you will get an 'Out of Memory' error when loading 
some missions, and the game will return to the menu system.

If less than 140Mb of hard drive space is available, you have the following 
options:

1)  Play the game on 'medium' or 'low' detail settings - this will require less 
Virtual Memory.
2)  Make more space available on your hard drive - e.g. run 'Disk Cleanup' from 
the Start Menu

Please note that running other applications at the same time as running Delta 
Force Land Warrior will cause additional system resources to be withheld, and 
may cause you to run out of available hard disk space.  It is advised that you shut 
down other applications before running Delta Force Land Warrior in order to 
enjoy the full experience of our product. MS-DOS prompt windows also seem to 
require a large amount of system resources, and should not be left open when 
playing either.


General Troubleshooting:
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You must be connected to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to join NovaWorld 
or to update the game.

The Delta Force Land Warrior Mission Editor does not work in Windows 2000.

If everything looks gray with the Matrox G400, please get the latest drivers (5.4).

If you get the error message: "Error Starting Program: The DFLW.EXE file is 
linked to missing export DDRAW.DLL:DirectDrawCreateEx", the game can not 
initialize DirectX7.  DirectX7 or greater is required.  Please visit 
http://www.microsoft.com/directx for the latest DirectX files from Microsoft. 

Even with DirectX 7 installed on your machine, you may have video card drivers 
installed that were designed to be used with an earlier version of DirectX. This 
may cause you to experience a variety of video problems, which ought to 
disappear if you download and install the latest drivers from the manufacturer of 
the card. In the Video Test, which is run when you first play DFLW, we attempt 
to detect the presence of an older driver not written for DirectX 7.   Information 
regarding your card will appear on the right hand side of the video test window.   
Please pay attention to this information, as your card's compatibility will play a 
big part in your enjoyment of DFLW. We recommend you run the game with the 
latest drivers installed for your particular hardware. Please visit us at 
http://www.novalogic.com for updated information on video card compatibility 
and for potential updates if any problems are experienced.

If you are using Windows 2000, you must be logged in as an Administrator in 
order to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Administrator must also start 
Reader once after installation and accept the End User License Agreement.

Save games from version 1.00.17 do not work in version 1.00.26 of the game.


Technical Support:
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If you are having a problem you need assistance with, check our website 
http://www.novalogic.com for up-to-date information on the product.  If you do 
not find the answer to your problem, you can contact us by the following means:

For US Support:
email: support@novalogic.com
phone: 1.818.878.0325 (M-F, 9 AM - 5 PM Pacific time, excluding holidays)
fax: 1.818.880.3448

For UK Support:
email: novalogic@europesupport.com 
phone: 0870 125 4000 

For Support in Other Territories:
Please visit http://www.novalogic.com for contact information for your territory.

When contacting us, please provide the name and version of the game, when you last 
updated the game, the nature of the problem and the particulars of your system (CPU 
speed, system memory, video and sound card types.)  If it is a multi-player problem, we 
will want to know the kind of internet service you are using and what servers you are 
attempting to play on.


Readme Reward:
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Thank you for taking the time to read the Delta Force Land Warrior Readme. 
Here is a special tip: there are multiple secret doors in the passages underneath the 
Pyramids in the first campaign mission. To open a secret door you only need to 
move next to the door. Hug all the walls as you make your way through the 
pyramid to find the secret doors.


(C) 2000 NovaLogic, Inc., Delta Force and NovaWorld are registered trademarks 
of NovaLogic, Inc. Land Warrior is a trademark of NovaLogic, Inc. Dolby, Dolby 
Surround and Dolby Pro Logic are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing 
Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark and Direct 3D, DirectX are 
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their 
respective owners.

