Black & White(TM) Creature Isle Readme File ------------------------- US version 1.4 30/11/01 ----------------- Table Of Contents ----------------- 1. Minimum PC Configuration 2. Installation 3. DirectX(TM) 4. Uninstall 5. Notes on video card chipsets 6. If you encounter problems running Setup.exe 7. Important Information for owners of ATI Radeon Dual Head Video Cards 8. Important Information for owners of Matrox Video Cards 9. Important Information for owners of Voodoo 2 Video Cards 10. Important Information for owners of S3(tm) Savage 2000 Video Cards 11. Gameplay Additions 12. Controller Notes - Touchsense Mouse Support 13. Network & Out of Sync recovery 14. Help! 15. Hot off the Press - Additional information --------------------------- 1. Minimum PC Configuration --------------------------- Minimum Configuration NOTE: You must have Black & White installed to play this Creature Isle add-on disc. Processor 350 MHz Intel® Pentium® II processor Memory 64MB RAM (128MB Minimum for Windows 2000/XP) HDD Space 430MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games Operating System Windows® 95/98/2000/ME/XP CD ROM Speed 4x CD-ROM drive Videocard (PCI/AGP) 8Mb 3D Hardware Accelerator Card with Direct3D(TM) support Soundcard DirectX 7.0a or later compliant sound card DirectX DirectX 7.0a or later (DirectX 8.0a is included on the cd) Internet features require TCP/IP Internet connection at 56.6Kbps or faster, or Internet access via LAN (Local Area Network). NOTE: Windows® XP users require Administration rights to play Black & White Creature Isle. --------------- 2. Installation --------------- NOTE: You must have Black & White installed to play this Creature Isle add-on disc. NOTE: Black & White Creature Isle will only install and run on machines installed with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. 1. Start your machine and wait for the Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP operating system to load. 2. Place the Black & White Creature Isle CD in the CD drive. 3. Windows will automatically detect the CD and begin the installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Black & White Creature Isle, specifying your original Black & White folder. If you need to install DirectX 8.0a, you can do this as part of the installation. Black & White Creature Isle will then be ready to play. 4. The installation program adds a program group to the Black & White group called Black & White Creature Isle and adds it to your Start/Programs menu. Left-click on the Start button on your Windows task bar. Under Programs/Lionhead Studios Ltd/Black & White Creature Isle, select and click Black & White Creature Isle to play. Note: Should Windows fail to recognise the CD and fail to run the installation program, run Setup.exe from the root directory of the CD. ---------- 3. DirectX ---------- If you try to run the game without DirectX7.0a or a later version installed, you will receive the following error message: "You need DirectX 7 or greater to play Black & White". If you try to run the Black & White Setup application without DirectX7.0a installed, you will receive the following error message: "There is a problem with your DirectX subsystem" If you receive either or both of these messages, you need to install DirectX. For your convenience, we have included DirectX8.0a on the Black & White Creature Isle CD. a) Installing DirectX8.0a directly from CD (if you skipped it during game install) Black & White Creature Isle comes with DirectX8.0a and will prompt you to install it during installation. If you would like to install it manually, make sure the Black & White Creature Isle CD is in the CD-ROM drive change to the following folder on your CD-ROM drive: "\Directx" and double-click on DXSETUP.EXE b) DirectX8.0a and supported hardware We recommend that Black & White Creature Isle be run with DirectX compatible sound boards and video cards. While there is a chance that Black & White Creature Isle will run with non-DirectX compatible hardware, you may find that: i) Sound quality suffers. ii) The game runs slower. iii) The game does not run at all. If your sound card or video card does not support DirectX, please contact your vendor. ------------ 4. Uninstall ------------ NOTE: When you uninstall Black & White Creature Isle, your save games will be automatically deleted. To uninstall Black & White Creature Isle go to Programs/Lionhead Studios Ltd/Black & White/Black & White Creature Isle in the Start menu. Left-click on Black & White Creature Isle Installation Uninstall & Maintenance to proceed. As an alternative you can left-click on the Start menu, select Settings and then Control Panel. Now find Add/Remove Programs and double left-click to run. Scroll down the list until you see Black & White Creature Isle, select it and left-click on Add/Remove to uninstall. NOTE: Please be aware that Uninstalling Black & White will reset your Creature Isle Profiles. This will mean that any Profiles or Save games will be lost within Creature Isle. -------------------------------- 5. Notes on video card chipsets -------------------------------- To run correctly, Black & White Creature Isle requires DirectX 7.0a or higher and a 3D accelerated graphics card with a minimum of 8 Megabytes of memory. The following cards are supported: Voodoo III Voodoo Banshee Voodoo 5 ATI Rage 128 ATI RADEON Millennium G400/G450/G550 nVidia Riva TNT nVidia Riva TNT 2 nVidia GeForce 256 nVidia Quadro nVidia GeForce2 nVidia GeForce3 Savage 2000 PowerVR Kyro & Kyro II SIS 315 If you are experiencing problems with your video card and Black & White Creature Isle, try updating your video card driver by downloading the latest driver available from the video card manufacturer. If there is no improvement, try using the latest driver provided by the video chipset manufacturer. Your video card chipset is the video processing chip located on your video card. If there is no information in your video card manual or website, check the video card for an identifying chip with the chipset manufacturer's name on it. Some popular video chipset manufacturer's websites are listed below: NVidia http://www.nvidia.com/ Matrox http://www.matrox.com/ S3 http://www.s3graphics.com/ ATI http://www.ati.com/ ---------------------------------------------- 6. If you encounter problems running Setup.exe ---------------------------------------------- If you experience problems running the Black & White Creature Isle Setup Program, try using the Safemode3DSetup.exe that was copied to your machine during installation. If you have used the default directories during installation, this will be found in Program Files/Lionhead Studios Ltd/Black & White/Black & White Creature Isle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Important Information for owners of ATI Radeon Dual Head Video Cards ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Owners of the Dual Head ATI Radeon video card may experience some problems running Black & White Creature Isle in single monitor mode. When running the Black & White Setup Program, you may receive the message "Setup has caused an error in Setup.exe". To resolve this, please run the Safemode3DSetup program that was copied to your machine during installation. If you have used the default directories during installation, this will be found in Program Files/Lionhead Studios Ltd/Black & White/Black & White Creature Isle. ---------------------------------------------------------- 8. Important Information for owners of Matrox Video Cards ---------------------------------------------------------- If you are attempting to run Black & White Creature Isle on Windows® 2000 and have a Matrox G400/G450, you may experience some texture problems while playing Black & White Creature Isle. For example, the loading screens may appea r incorrectly, or the textures inside the citadel may be corrupt. To resolve this you need to do the following: Left click on the Start Menu, select Run. Type DXDIAG then press ok. This will run the DirectX diagnostics utility. Left click on the Display Tab, and in the DirectX Features section, left click on the Disable button next to AGP Texture Acceleration. Left click to accept the confirmation message. To use AGP Texture Acceleration in any other application or game you will have to re-enable this option. ------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Important Information for Owners of Voodoo 2 Video Cards ------------------------------------------------------------ Owners of Voodoo 2 video cards who are running Windows® 2000 will not be able to select this card in the Black & White Setup Program. All other supported operating systems, i.e. Windows® 95/98/ME will be able to select this card as normal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Important Information for owners of S3(tm) Savage 2000 Video Cards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are attempting to run Black & White Creature Isle on Windows® 2000 and have a S3(tm) Savage2000, you may experience some graphical problems while playing Black & White Creature Isle. For example, the loading screens may appear incorrectly, or the screen remains blank during the game intro. To resolve this you need to do the following: Left click on the Start Menu, select Run. Type DXDIAG then press ok. This will run the DirectX diagnostics utility. Left click on the Display Tab, and in the DirectX Features section, left click on the Disable button next to AGP Texture Acceleration. Left click to accept the confirmation message. To use AGP Texture Acceleration in any other application or game you will have to re-enable this option. --------------------- 11. Gameplay additions --------------------- Miracle Dispensers - You are able to build your own one-shot Miracle Dispensers by combining six scaffolds created at your workshop. Once placed on the landscape, you can create one-shot Miracles by charging a Miracle in your hand and casting it on the Dispenser. These can be moved from the Dispenser, placed anywhere and saved for later use. You can cast any Miracle on a created Dispenser to create a one-shot Miracle of that type. This is an especially useful tactic, as you can create one shot Mega-blasts and place them in the Vortex for use in later lands. ----------------------------------------------- 12. Controller Notes - Touchsense Mouse Support ----------------------------------------------- TOUCHSENSE MOUSE: Black & White fully supports the TouchSense technology from Immersion Corporation. This functionality is available to anyone who is using a mouse incorporating the TouchSense technology and with the appropriate drivers installed. TouchSense supplements the visual and audio feedback and gives players of Black & White a more complete perceptual experience. In the virtual Black & White world, having tactile feedback through the mouse will add realism to the whole game experience while exploring the world and interacting with objects. Pulling up trees, powering up Miracles, stroking or slapping your Creature together with many other interactions all have their associated touch sensations which will add to the overall immersive game experience. An extra challenge has been built into the game which is only available to those players using TouchSense technology. It will only be possible to solve these challenges by use of TouchSense-enabled devices. In Black & White, the goal has always been to produce an interface, which is entirely uncluttered by the traditional icons, menus and instead concentrate on the natural real-world interactions with which everyone is familiar. As such, the Black & White hand is really to be viewed as an extension of your own hand. Having touch as an additional feedback to this interface enhances this experience. The tactile sensations do even more to create the illusion that the world behind the screen is a real world. More details of this technology can be found at www.immersion.com. For any users who already have this technology, be sure to check up that you have the latest patches available for Black & White at www.immersion.com/coolsites TouchSense Technology Support: There are 3 levels of support to TouchSense that can be set in the Game. These are available from the Immersion section on the Game Options screen: Note: The Default support level is Normal. Minimum: None Normal: Key interactions for the game - with objects, Miracles and your Creature. Maximum: Interaction with all game objects and terrain features as the hand passes over the land. Note: All TouchSense effects have been balanced with the assumption that the "Strength" on the TouchSense mouse control panel settings has been set to Maximum. Different TouchSense tactile feedback mouse products may feel slightly different, so you may want to make adjustments to the "Strength" setting to best suit your preferences. It is possible to make your own customizations to the TouchSense sensations. However, this operation is entirely unsupported and so it is advisable to make sure you make backup copies of the original files. First you need to download Immersion Studio, the tool for editing touch effects. This can be found in the SDK section of the Immersion website: http://www.immersion.com/developer Then there are 2 files which are used in Black & White. They can be found in .\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White\Data\Immersion Tactile.ifr: This contains the TouchSense effects for tactile feedback mouse (e.g. Logitech iFeel Mouse). FullFeedback.ifr: This contains the force feedback effects for a full force feedback mouse (e.g. Logitech Wingman Force Feedback Mouse). For additional information on Immersion and other TouchSense-enabled devices please visit Immersion at www.immersion.com or www.immersion.com/entertainment.html. NB. Users of the Logitech wheel mouse must ensure that they set the middle button activated by pressing the wheel to be the same as the normal middle button action. You can do this by selecting "Mouse" from the control panel and then the "Buttons" tab. The default setting of this during installation is WebWheel which will interfere with the correct operation of Black & White. ----------------------------------------- 13. Network & Out of Sync Recovery Feature ----------------------------------------- Online Requirements Internet features require TCP/IP Internet connection at 56Kbps or faster, or Internet access via LAN (Local Area Network). NOTE: You may experience slowdown in multiplayer games if you have a machine that is on or near the minimum specifications. Network Problems Note to AOL® users: If you use AOL or any other system that doesn't use Windows dial-up networking, you will need to manually connect to the internet before running the game if you want to use any of the online aspects. To force Black & White into thinking that there is an OPEN & READY internet connection you can do the following: 1. Right mouse click on the runBlack.exe file - the default location for this should be C:\Program Files\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White - and select the Create Shortcut option. 2. Right mouse click on the Shortcut to runBlack.exe file and select the Properties option. 3. In the box labelled Target type in the following command at the end of the path description: /FORCEINETCONN 4. Click the OK button at the bottom of the box and then double-click the Shortcut to runBlack.exe to run the game. To force Black & White into thinking that there is NO internet connection you can do the following: 1. Right mouse click on the runBlack.exe file - the default location for this should be C:\Program Files\Lionhead Studios Ltd\Black & White - and select the Create Shortcut option. 2. Right mouse click on the Shortcut to runBlack.exe file and select the Properties option. 3. In the box labelled Target type in the following command at the end of the path description: /NOINETCONN 4. Click the OK button at the bottom of the box and then double-click the Shortcut to runBlack.exe to run the game. Multiplayer - Out Of Synchronization Recovery Feature ----------------------------------------------------- If a game goes Out Of Sync, data is transferred to all client machines for an Out Of Sync restart (This may take a few seconds, dependant on the number of people in the game). This feature can be used as follows: 1. LAN When waiting for a person to join you in an out-of-sync game, have the "Restore Out Of Sync" checkbox turned on. The game will then be in "Out Of Sync" restore mode. You will not be able to change the map (It will be the same map as the Out Of Sync game). You will only be able to change teams and start the game. 2. Internet When creating a channel, have the "Restore Out Of Sync" checkbox turned on (this will only be visible if you have an Out Of Sync restore available). Only people with the Out Of Sync restore data, sent around when the game went Out Of Sync, will be able to join you and replay the game. You can change the teams/clans to how they were in the previous session manually. Note that Out Of Sync Restore can only be used for a multiplayer game, which is created straight after the game that went Out Of Sync. If another multiplayer game is played in the meantime, it is not possible to restore the previous game. --------- 14. Help! --------- If the above do not resolve your problem then please use the EA Technical Help file situated in Start Menu/Programs/Lionhead Studios Ltd/Black & White Creature Isle/EA Technical Support. ---------------------------------------------- 15. Hot off the Press - Additional information ---------------------------------------------- Occasionally you may find some of the snapshot pictures in the save game room in the citadel disappear. This will not affect your ability to load these savegames and is down to texture problems on some chipsets. Software (c) 2002 Lionhead Studios Ltd. Black & White, Lionhead and the Lionhead logo are trademarks of Lionhead Studios Ltd. Electronic Arts, EA GAMES and the EA GAMES logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the US and/or other countries. All rights reserved. EA GAMES(TM) is an Electronic Arts(TM) brand Microsoft Outlook, DirectX and Direct3D are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, Inc. AOL is a registered trademark of America Online Inc. Permedia is a trademark of 3D Labs, Inc., Ltd. nVidia is a registered trademark of Nvidia Corporation. Matrox is a registered trademark of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.