Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

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-----------------------------------------You may experience difficulties running Turok if you don't have
the latest drivers from the manufacturer of your 3D accelerator
card. Drivers were being changed right up to the last minute as
testing with Turok revealed problems with various cards.
Typically, the chipset makers expect you to go to your card
manufacturer for the latest drivers for their card. Although
the chipset makers supply the 3D chip and driver software to
card manufacturers, the manufacturer may tailor the driver to
their particular board configuration, so the safest place to go
for drivers for your board is the card manufacturer. In some
cases, however, the chip maker also manufacturers the board.
The following is list of web site addresses from which you can
obtain the latest drivers. Also, www.acclaimnation.com will
contain an updated list. If Turok has problems running under
the drivers you installed with your card, contact your card
manufacturer for the latest version.
ATI Technologies
Canopus
Creative Labs
Deltron Technology
Diamond Mulitmedia
Elsa
Hercules
Intergraph Computer Sys
Jazz Multimedia
Leadtek
Matrox
miro Computer products
Number Nine,
Orchid Technology
Sierra On-line
STB Systems
TechWorks
Video Logic

www.atitech.ca
www.canopuscorp.com
www.creaf.com
www.deltrontech.com
www.diamondmm.com
www.elsa.com
www.hercules.com
www.intergraph.com
www.jazzmm.com
www.leadtek.com
www.matrox.com
www.miro.de
www.nine.com
www.orchid.com
www.sierra.com/hardware/
www.stb.com
www.techworks.com
www.videologic.com

Supported chipsets
-----------------Usually, but not always, if a board is based on one of the
following chipsets, Turok will run on it.
3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Graphics
3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Rush
3Dlabs Permedia2
Permedia 1000NT (320x240)
ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro
NEC Electronics PowerVR PCX2
Nvidia Riva 128
Rendition Verite v1000 (320x240)
Rendition Verite v2100
Rendition Verite v2200
Matrox MGA-1164SG
Minimum CPU speeds

-----------------For 3Dfx chipsets, 100 MHZ minimum, 133 recommended. For NEC
PCX2 chipsets, 166 MHZ minimum, 200 recommended. All others,
133 MHZ minimum, 166 MHZ recommended.
Video Performance settings
-------------------------Prior to starting Turok, you can choose various video
options on the Video/Performance Settings menu. Except for the
Render Overlap option, checking one of the available options
will enhance some element of Turok's look, but, depending on
your 3D card, may result in some decrease in performance
(speed).
In many cases, Turok can detect your current 3D video card,
select the best combinations of performance options for it, and
show these the first time you select this menu item. If Turok
is not able to determine your card, you'll see "Unknown card,
select from list." Scroll down the list to find your card.
For cards that are specifically listed under Video performance,
stay with our suggested settings. For a card that is not
listed, determine the card's chipset and look for an
"unlisted" entry for that chipset. E.g., you've got a 3Dfx
Voodoo Rush-based card that's not shown in the menu. Select
"3Dfx Voodoo Rush Unlisted" and use those recommended settings.
Finally, if you have a card with an chipset that's not listed
above as being supported, and you want to try Turok, check all
the options below and run the game. If you encounter problems
(visual or performance), try un-checking things. If things look
fine, but speed is an issue, the two most likely (and usually
safe) things to do are shrink the screen size (+/- numeric
keypad keys), or go to a lower full screen resolution.
Again, check acclaimnation.com for the latest list of supported
cards and patches.
Brief descriptions of the options:
Bilinear Filtering -- Smoother look, reduces "blockiness".
Mip Mapping -- Reduces "shimmering" or "dancing pixels"
(e.g., the ground at the horizon).in far away objects.
Full Screen Tinting -- With this checked, when you're
underwater, e.g., the whole screen is tinted a blue, watery
color (more realistic). Some cards take a performance hit when
doing this.
Fog -- Things on the horizon appear gradually through a "fog"
as you approach them. Turn this off, and far away objects "pop
up" instantly into view.
Fancy Plant -- Some cards don't do a good job of handling one
of Turok's more complex plant models. Turn this off to replace
this plant with a less complex version of the plant.
Fancy Sky -- Same deal for the sky.

Render Overlap -- This one is tough to describe. Turning it

off or on might get some performance increase, but at the
possible expense of screen artifacts or "tearing".
Filtered Plants -- Some cards display an outline around plants
when this is checked. Turn it off if the outline bothers you.
Custom APIs
----------Most people will have only one 3D card/chipset in their PC. The
Video Performance menu will show that chipset's driver with a
check mark to show it's the driver being used. E.g., if Turok
is running under Direct 3D for your chipset, you'll see:
Primary Display Driver (Direct3D)
checked.
Turok has been optimized for certain chipsets, and will
automatically detect them use their native API for best
performance. E.g., if you have a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset,
you'll see
Custom 3Dfx Driver
checked.
Currently, Turok has custom drivers for 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics,
3Dfx Voodoo Rush, and NEC PCX2 chipsets.
Custom ATI version
-----------------As of this writing, you can expect a custom version for the ATI
Rage Pro chipset in mid-December 1997. Recommended settings
exist for this chipset in the Video Performance section.
However, Turok will not run properly without the drivers to be
made available mid-December.
Online manual
------------A complete manual for Turok can be accessed as a Windows Help
file, either from the START/PROGRAMS/... Programs, ... menu, or
from Turok's opening screen (Help on the menu bar).
Video card drivers must be installed
-----------------------------------Drivers for your 3D graphics card must be installed prior to
running Turok. You typically do this when you first install the
card. If you haven't installed the drivers, a message to the
effect that no hardware accelerator cards or drivers were found
will appear when you start Turok.
DirectX 5.0 must be installed
----------------------------This happens as a normal part of the Turok installation
process.
Drive space
-----------

Turok requires about 42 MB of hard drive space to install. In

addition, during gameplay, Turok requests 30 MB of virtual
memory from Windows. Depending upon how much RAM you have,
Windows may need to increase the size of your swap file to
accommodate this request (this usually happens automatically).
If this results in not enough disc space, Turok will let you
know with a message. If you have another drive or partition
with 42 MB free space, you could try installing Turok there
instead of the default location on C: (where your swap file
probably is). This will free up space on C:, allowing your swap
file to grow larger, and, hopefully, Turok to run.
Turn off other applications
--------------------------Other Windows applications left running while playing Turok
could be using system resources that would improve Turok's
performance. Also, if another application grabs Windows' focus
(e.g., announcing email), Turok will simply disappear and will
need to be re-started. Another example: if you remove Turok's
CD while playing the game, and insert an audio CD, your CD
player application will take control to play the CD, killing
Turok.
Turning music volume off may improve performance
-----------------------------------------------Turok reads music (not sound effects) from the CD during
gameplay. Each time the music changes (not very often), the
game will pause for a bit while the CD seeks to the new music.
Setting music volume to its lowest setting will prevent this.
You'll still have sound effects.
Don't press the PAUSE key
------------------------It may have unpredictable effects.
Command line options
--------------------noRoll
Disables jump left or right when double tapping
the strafe key. To use this option, you must create a Windows
shortcut to Turok.exe, then right-click the shortcut and select
"Properties". Click on the "Shortcut" tab and add "-noroll"
after turok.exe in the "Target" section (be sure there is a
space between "turok.exe" and "-noroll"). The "Target" section
will then look like:
C:\Program Files\Acclaim\Turok\turok.exe -noroll
Then, run Turok via the shortcut.
-alldrivers
As mentioned above, most people will have a
single 3D chipset in their PC and Turok will automatically use
it. However, it's possible for two or more 3D chipsets to
co-exist in one PC. If you have two 3D chipsets installed, and
one of them is supported by Turok via its native API, Turok will
show only the native API version in the Video Performance menu,
as it will result in best performance. Otherwise, Turok will
run under the Direct3D driver.
If you have three or more chipsets installed, Turok will display
all possible drivers on the menu, with the preferred driver

checked. However, at this point, you can check/choose another

driver (typically Direct3D). HOWEVER, we don't guarantee
operation under a non-suggested driver.
Finally we get to the -alldrivers option. If you're a real
control freak, you can set this command line option and all
possible drivers will always appear for selection.
-enableHardwareMixing
This command line option that will
allow the sound card to mix the sound channels rather than
allowing DirectSound to mix the sounds in software. Hardware
mixing generally will give a better mix IF it can mix all the
needed channels in hardware; otherwise, it will have to use
software and/or hardware mixing, or worse yet, drop sounds; all
of which can slow the game down and give a bad sounding mix. If
your soundcard can handle mixing up to 16 channels (and has
enough memory on board to mix them all), this option could
possibly increase game speed and give better sounding effects.
-output11k
-output22k
-output44k
Although you can select 11Khz or 22Khz samples
in the game menu, by default all sounds will mix into a 44Khz
output buffer. Depending on your sound card, changing the output
buffer's frequency (especially if it matches the selected
sample's frequency) may speed up the sound mixing.
-disableambientsounds
Turns off ambient sounds (animal
noises). Could improve performance on slower machines.
Strafe Modifier and Look modifer toggle keys
-------------------------------------------On the joystick/pad and mouse setup screens, you can set the Y
Axis Behavior (forward/backward movement of the stick or mouse)
to either cause Turok to look up/down or move forward/backward.
You can temporarily swap these behaviors by pressing and holding
the Look Modifier Toggle key (default: P) on the keyboard while
moving the controller in the Y axis direction. E.g., if the
controller's Y axis movement normally moves Turok
forward/backward, he will temporarily look up/down if P is being
depressed.
The same approach applies to X Axis Behavior (side-to-side
movement of the stick or mouse) which can be set to rotate or
strafe. Pressing and holding the Strafe Modifier Toggle key
(default: O) on the keyboard while moving the controller in the
X axis direction will temporarily swap behavior.
Y Axis Looking
-------------In Setup for joysticks and mice, there is a Y Axis Looking
option. This changes how Turok looks up/down when directed by
joystick/mouse movement in the Y axis (and there are two ways Y
axis movement can cause Turok to look up/down: either the Y Axis
Behavior has been set to look up/down, or the Y axis toggle key,
mentioned above, is causing Y axis movement to look up/down).
If "forward looks up" is checked, Y axis movement in the forward
direction will cause Turok to look up. If "forward looks down"
is checked, Y axis movement in the forward direction will cause

Turok to look down.

11 KHz, 22 KHz, and Mono options
-------------------------------Under Audio in the setup screen (click on Sample Frequency), you
can choose from sounds sampled at either 11 KHz (good) or 22 KHz
(better). Default is 11 KHz. Depending on your total system
configuration, using 11 KHz sounds may result in fastest
performance. Try 22 KHz and choose. Selecting Mono may also
improve performance. As with all options, they will be saved
whenever you save a game.
Quitting Turok
------------You can quit Turok at any point by pausing and returning to
Windows via the Turok menu system, or by pressing Alt F4.
Boards running with a PowerVR chipset
------------------------------------Screen size adjustment (numeric keypad +/- keys) doesn't
function. However, several screen resolutions are available.
3Dfx chipset boards
------------------3Dfx boards have an "Ignore Vblank" option. Checking it
could improve speed noticeably,especially on faster machines,
but you may see visual screen "tearing" occasionally.
ESS Technologies sound chips
---------------------------There may be compatibility problems with using a digital
joystick motherboards/with cards that use sound chips from ESS
Technologies (random false joystick input resulting in spinning
around and other wierd behavior). If you experience this
problem and you have a chipset from ESS Technologies, contact
your computer vendor for the latest drivers.
Direct3D initialization errors
-----------------------------The process of initializing a 3D card to run under Direct3D
involves many steps. These error messages are provided to help
you troubleshoot in case the Direct3D initialization fails.
In general, if you receive a Direct3D initialization error
message, you should try to run Turok again with a lower screen
resolution
Some Direct3D errors (especially #4, #7 and #15) result from
having too little memory on your 3D accelerator card. You should
try to run Turok again in a lower screen resolution (lower
screen resolutions use less memory on the 3D card).
Errors #1 and #3 may mean that you do not have the latest
version of DirectX installed (DirectX includes Direct3D). The
correct version of DirectX was shipped with the Turok CD-ROM;
you should try to re-install Turok.
Some errors (especially #10) may be a result of a conflict
between your desktop's color palette and the color depth of the
buffers that Turok is trying to allocate on the 3D card. The

desktop's color palette is set in the Display Properties window,

available by choosing Start -> Settings -> Control Panel and
then double clicking the Display icon. Choose the Settings tab
of the Display Properties window and select High Color (16 bit)
in the Color Palette drop down menu. Changing this setting may
require you to restart your computer. You might also try running
Turok in a different screen resolution.
Here are the Direct3D Initialization errors follow. NOTE: (#)
represents an error code that will be returned that may help in
trouble-shooting.
1. DirectDrawCreate failed. Turok requires DirectDraw to run.
2. SetCooperativeLevel failed (#). Could not set DirectDraw into
exclusive mode.
3. QueryInterface failed (#). Turok requires DirectX 5.0 to run.
4. SetDisplayMode failed (#). Could not switch to requested
screen resolution.
5. CreateSurface failed (#). Could not allocate frame buffer
from 3D hardware RAM.
6. GetAttachedSurface failed (#). Could not allocate frame
buffer from 3D hardware RAM.
7. Z-buffer creation failed. 3D hardware does not support 16-bit
z-buffer.
8. Z-buffer allocation failed (#). Could not allocate z-buffer
from 3D hardware RAM.
9. AddAttachedSurface failed (#). Could not attach z-buffer to
frame buffers.
10. CreateDevice failed (#). Could not create Direct3D device
data structure.
11. CreateViewport failed (#). Could not create Direct3D
viewport data structure.
12. AddViewport failed (#). Could not attach Direct3D viewport
data structure to Direct3D device.
13. SetViewport2 failed (#). Could not set viewport registers.
14. SetCurrentViewport failed (#). Could not set the current
viewport.
15. Insufficient texture memory (# bytes) was detected to run
TUROK.
The reported code number in many errors may be useful if you
need to call technical support.
ComCtl32
-------This program will be installed prior to DirectX if needed. If
the ComCtl32 installation process returns a message asking if
you want to re-boot, DON'T. Just continue on with the install
process through DirectX installation. DirectX may ask you to
re-boot, and you should do so. If DirectX doesn't ask you to
re-boot, but ComCtl32 did, finish the install process and then
re-boot (to finalize the ComCtl32 process).
(NOTE: this document can be accessed from Turok's online help)