Half-Life: Opposing Force Version 1.1.0.8 Update Readme 11/7/2001 [ To read this file, select Edit/Word Wrap from the menu above ] *********************************************************************** About This Document: Thank you for purchasing Half-Life: Opposing Force. This document contains last-minute information about Half-Life: Opposing Force and other information about the program not found in the Help Files. This README file includes information that pertains to general problems and questions you may have concerning the game or your computer. Should you experience any problems with Half-Life: Opposing Force, please refer to this file for addition help on answering questions about the game and solving technical difficulties. *********************************************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS II. HALF-LIFE: OPPOSING FORCE GAME INFORMATION III. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES A. Driver Issues B. Sound Problems C. The Console D. 3d Hardware Issues IV. CREDITS V. CONTACTING SIERRA I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ======================= Minimum System: Pentium 133mhz, 24MB RAM SVGA, high-color (16-bit) 2x CD-ROM drive 200 MB HD space Win-compatible soundcard Mouse, keyboard Half-Life installed Recommended System: Pentium 166+, 32+ MB RAM 3D accelerator card (Open GL or Direct 3D) Internet/Multiplayer Requirements: 32-bit Internet service provider with 28.8+ modem or Local Area Network This game has been fully tested with Intel and AMD based computers including the AMD Athlon microprocessor. II. HALF-LIFE OPPOSING FORCE GAME INFORMATION ======================= Addendum to Manual: The medic class can heal other nearby friendly soldiers. If a friendly soldier is wounded and calls "Medic!" within earshot of the medic, he will move to their aid. However, players often will wish to keep all of the medic's supplies for themselves or the player will simply not want the medic to interrupt his alert combat mode by healing a wounded soldier. Therefore, a medic that has been commanded to follow the player will never aid another wounded soldier. To coax your medic into healing other soldiers, lead him to the wounded characters and "use" him to tell him to stay put. When nearby soldiers call for him, he'll heal them with any remaining supplies he has. The medic will only heal other soldiers who call for him when he is not following the player. Please see the Half-Life: Opposing Force manual for additional game play information. Note: No aliens were harmed during the creation of this game. Also Note: Sean Reardon just thinks it's all about him. III. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES ======================= A. DRIVER ISSUES The copy protection used on this disc is potentially incompatible with the following CD drives: Sanyo CRD-256P Sony CDU77E Acer CD-624a MATSHITA UJDB110 Various Pioneer DVD models All Yamaha CD-R's Pioneer DR-A01S Pioneer DR-A24X Samsung SCR-1231 When running Half-Life in OpenGL, you must select '3Dfx Mini Driver' from the drivers list in the Video Options menu if you have a 3Dfx card (Voodoo, Voodoo2, Rush or Banshee). Choosing the 'Default' driver may severely impact Half-Life's performance. The Diamond Viper 550 drivers older than 4/2/99 cause the game menus to be drawn incorrectly. Use the drivers from the Nvidia home page (http://www.nvidia.com) dated 2/17/99 or later. Make sure the most current version of DirectX is installed on your computer. DirectX 6 is the most current version (as of 10/31/98), and it is included on the Half-Life CD in the 'DirectX' folder. If you are running a pre-OSR2 release of Windows95, get the OpenGL 1.1 fix in order to run Half-Life in OpenGL mode. The fix can be found at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/opengl95.exe Make sure you have installed the most recent drivers for all your hardware before playing Half-Life. B. SOUND PROBLEMS If you don't hear any sounds while playing Opposing Force or if you only hear music, another application you are running may have control of the sound hardware. Exit Opposing Force, close the other application, and restart the game. A3D 1.0 versus 2.0 Half-Life: Opposing Force requires version 2.0 of A3D. You can upgrade your A3D from 1.0 to 2.0 by downloading the latest drivers from Aureal's website at www.a3d.com. If you try to enable A3D support in Opposing Force without upgrading to 2.0, you will get an error message when starting the game. CAN'T HEAR CD MUSIC If you don't hear any music while playing Opposing Force, the problem is likely to have one of three causes: 1) The Opposing Force CD needs to be in the first CD-ROM drive (only an issue if you have more than one CD-ROM drive). 2) Another application is actively using the CD Audio when Opposing Force starts up. 3) CD Audio isn't enabled for the CD-ROM drive. To fix the first problem, make sure the Opposing Force CD is in your first CD-ROM drive. To fix the second, close other applications which may be accessing your CD-ROM drive, such as CD music players. If you still can't hear the Opposing Force music, run the application "CD Player" that comes standard with Windows located on your Start Menu Programs, Accessories, Multimedia. If the CD Player doesn't play the music tracks on the Opposing Force CD, then check Control Panel, Multimedia, CD Music, CD ROM Selection, and make sure it's set to your first CD-ROM drive. If you're under NT, you may also want to check Control Panel, Devices, Cdaudio, and make sure it's not disabled. Once the first two requirements are met, and the "CD Player" application works, then Half-Life should be able to play the CD music without any problems. CD MUSIC VOLUME You cannot control the CD music volume within Opposing Force. To adjust your CD music volume, go to the Windows Start Menu, Programs, Accessories, Multimedia, and select the Volume Control applet. CD AUDIO SLOWDOWNS Some CD-ROM drives take a few seconds to spin up to their playing speed. You may notice some parts of the game that will momentarily slow down before the CD audio will play. SOUND QUALITY PROBLEMS If your sound is skipping or cracking, you may need to adjust your direct sound configuration in Opposing Force. There are two common adjustments you can make: 1) Adjust _snd_mixahead. If you have access to the Opposing Force console, type "_snd_mixahead 0.2" at the console. If not, create a file with notepad that contains the line: _snd_mixahead 0.2 And save it in your Half-Life\Valve\ directory. Name the file "autoexec.cfg". 2) Disable direct sound. Run Opposing Force with the command line argument "-wavonly". Edit the Opposing Force shortcut. The 'target' field should say: "HL.EXE -game gearbox -wavonly". C. THE CONSOLE For a complete listing of Half-Life's console commands, visit http://half-life.pcgame.com/console/index.html D. 3D HARDWARE ISSUES Half-Life has the ability to use both OpenGL and Direct3D. Many cards with support for 3D acceleration will provide both OpenGL and Direct3D drivers. Which one is better depends upon the quality and performance of the drivers themselves, and will vary from card to card. The latest release of DirectX, version 6.0, is included on the Half-Life CD. It should be automatically installed as part of the Half-Life installation process. If you need to reinstall at a later time, open the DirectX folder on your Half-Life installation CD and run dxsetup.exe. In general, make sure you have the latest versions of the device drivers for your display hardware. Most graphics card vendors make them freely available on the Internet, and a collection of links to sites of many popular cards is installed on your hard drive along with Half-Life. The default location for this file is: C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\media\DrvPage\default.htm Video configuration is set in the Configuration\Video\Video modes menu in Half-Life. The following section explains the known driver and compatibility issues for specific chipsets at the time of Half-Life's shipping. If you have any questions about which chipset is incorporated in your graphics card, consult the documentation that accompanied your card, or contact the card manufacturer. 3DFX Banshee, Voodoo 1, Voodoo 2, Voodoo 2 SLI Get the latest drivers from your card manufacturer or get the latest drivers directly from the 3DFX site. Half-Life ships with the current, tested GL mini-driver. Make sure that you have Glide version 2.54 or above. Half-Life does not support Direct3D on Voodoo cards. The Voodoo 2 running in SLI mode on Windows/NT is prone to crashing. The solution to this instability is to either get an updated driver from 3DFX, disable SLI mode, or run under Windows 95/98. 3DFX Rush With the current drivers, Half-Life supports the Voodoo rush in software mode only. Check with 3DFX for an updated driver that offers support for Half-Life NVIDIA Riva 128 You must have Windows 95 OSR 2 or later, Windows 98 or Windows NT. As of shipping, Half-Life Riva 128 OpenGL support requires the latest reference driver from NVIDIA. Get this driver off of their site, www.nvidia.com. Direct3D support is currently unavailable. Contact NVIDIA for a Direct3D driver that supports Half-Life. NVIDIA TNT Half-Life supports the TNT in software, OpenGL and Direct3D modes. Get the latest driver off of NVIDIA's site. If you run OpenGL on the nVidia Riva TNT and switch to Direct3D, decals may not appear. To fix this, type gl_polyoffset 4 at the console. Matrox G200 Half-Life supports the G200 in software and Direct3D. Get the latest driver from ...
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