------------------------------------------------- Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods Readme File Lionhead Studios 2006 ------------------------------------------------- BLACK & WHITE® 2: Battle of the Gods BY LIONHEAD STUDIOS. ----------------- Table Of Contents ----------------- A. Installation B. Playing Tips C. Minimum PC Configuration D. Uninstall E. Notes on video card chipsets F. Other Important Notices --------------- A. Installation --------------- Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods will only install and run on machines installed with Windows 2000/XP, and that have the original Black & White® 2 game already installed. 1. Start your machine and wait for the Windows operating system to load. 2. Place the Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods CD/DVD in the CD/DVD drive. 3. Windows will automatically detect the CD/DVD and begin the installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods. If you need to install DirectX 9c the installer will do so automatically. 4. The installation program creates a program group called Black & White® 2 Battle of the Gods and adds it to your Start->Programs menu. Left-click on the Start button on your Windows task bar. Under Programs->Black & White® 2 Battle of the Gods, select and click "Black & White 2 Battle of the Gods" to play. Troubleshooting. If you find that Windows does not autorun the install program you can install the game by enabling the autorun feature (please refer to your Windows documentation on how to enable this feature on your drive). Alternatively if you do not have autorun enabled on this drive you can still run the install program manually. To do this open the Start menu, select 'Run…' and enter ‘d:\arun.exe’ (without quotes) where 'd:' is replaced by the drive letter of your CD/DVD drive. After this if Windows fails to recognise the CD/DVD and fails to run the installation program, run Setup.exe from the root directory of the CD/DVD drive. --------------- B. Playing tips --------------- Lionhead Studios provides up-to-date game tips, hints and other on-line help for playing the game at http://www.bwgame.com. Also check out our community forums for hints and tips from other players at http://allboards.lionhead.com --------------------------- C. Minimum PC Configuration --------------------------- Processor - Intel® Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or equivalent Memory - 512Mb RAM HDD Space - 1.0 Gb free hard disk space Operating System - Windows® 2000/XP CD/DVD ROM Speed - Any Speed (as applicable) Videocard - DirectX 8+ based video card which supports pixel shading (see Notes on video card chipsets below) Soundcard - DirectX 8 compliant sound card DirectX - DirectX 9c+ (supplied with install) ------------ D. Uninstall ------------ 1. To uninstall Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods insert the Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods disk, and run setup.exe 2. Left-click on Remove and click Next to uninstall Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods. 3. Should this fail to work, left-click on the Start menu, select Settings and then Control Panel. Now find Add/Remove Programs and left-click to run. Scroll down the list until you see Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods, select it and left-click on Add/Remove to uninstall. If the uninstaller fails to completely remove Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods (it may not, for example, delete your Saved Games folder in "My Documents"), delete the folder to which you installed the game. Thus, if you have used the default directories, double left-click on My Computer, double left-click on the C: drive, double left-click on Program Files, double-click on the Lionhead Studios folder, find the specfic folder for Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods then right click and select Delete. Click Yes to confirm. This will send the remaining files to the Recycle Bin, which you will then need to empty. -------------------------------- E. Notes on video card chipsets -------------------------------- To run correctly, Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods requires: DirectX 9.0c DirectX 8/9 based Video card which supports at least version 1.1 pixel shaders Video cards based on the following chipsets are supported: ATI Radeon 8500 9100 9200 9250 9500 9550 9600 9700 9800 X300 X600 X700 X800 X850 x1300 x1600 x1800 x1850 x1900 and CrossFire nVidia GeForce 7300 7800 6100 6150 6200 6600 6800 FX5200 FX5500 FX5600 FX5700 FX5800 FX5900 FX5950 PCX5300 PCX5900 Ti4200 Ti4600 Ti4800 and SLi If you are experiencing problems with your video card and Black & White® 2: Battle of the Gods, 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. For AGP cards, you need to make sure your AGP Aperture is set correctly - For 64Mb video cards, you need at least 32mb of AGP. For cards with 128Mb+, you need at least 64 mb of AGP aperture. Check your AGP is working by selecting Start Menu->Run dxdiag. If AGP is working, the display tab should show AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled 64mb-128mb video cards require 64 - 128 mb of AGP ram on AGP systems (256mb video cards or PCI express systems do not need this) If you experience performance issues then please use the command line modifier 'MINSPEC' from the start menu to downgrade the graphics shaders. If you are experiencing performance issues on video cards with less than 128Mb of RAM then we recommend using the command line modifier 'LOWMEM'. Some popular video chipset manufacturer's websites are listed below: NVidiahttp://www.nvidia.com/ ATIhttp://www.ati.com/ -------------------------- F. Other Important Notices -------------------------- Software © 2001-2006 Lionhead Studios Limited. All rights reserved. Lionhead, the Lionhead logo, Black & White, the Black & White Logo and Battle of the Gods are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lionhead Studios Limited in the US and/or other countries. Black & White ® is a Lionhead ® Studios brand. Electronic Arts, EA and the EA logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the US and/or other countries. Published and distributed by Electronic Arts. EA™ is an Electronic Arts™ brand The official Black & White game website can be found at http://www.bwgame.com Microsoft, DirectX and Direct3D are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, Inc. nVidia is a registered trademark of Nvidia Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Pentium, Intel, and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries ATI Technologies Inc. ATI and the ATI logo are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. RenderWare is a registered trademark of Criterion Software Limited. Parts of the software are Copyright 1998-2006 Criterion Software Limited. and its licensors Uses Bink Video. 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