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Medal of Honor Allied Assault tm  
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Thank you for purchasing: 
Medal of Honor Allied Assault tm  Spearhead. 
This expansion pack requires the previous installation of:
Medal of Honor Allied Assault tm 
This readme file contains last minute information that did not 
make it into the manual, as well as more detailed information on 
various features already covered in the manual.
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System Requirements
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MINIMUM CONFIGURATION
Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, or Windows 95 
 Windows NT is not supported 
Previous installation of Medal of Honor Allied Assault tm 
450 MHz Intel Pentium II or 500 MHz AMD Athlon processor
128 MB RAM 
8x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive 
800 MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games  additional
space required for Windows swap-file and DirectX 8.0 installation 
16 MB OpenGL capable video card using an NVIDIA GeForce3, NVIDIA
GeForce2, NVIDIA GeForce 256, NVIDIA Riva TNT2, NVIDIA Riva TNT,
ATI Radeon, ATI Rage 128 Pro, ATI Rage 128, PowerVR3 Kyro II, or
PowerVR Kyro chipset with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver
DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
Keyboard
Mouse
RECOMMENDED
700 MHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
32 MB or greater supported OpenGL capable video card with OpenGL
and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver
The following 16MB or greater 3D accelerators are not fully
supported and do not work properly with the game:
-3Dfx Voodoo 4 and 5
 No intro movies play. Various textures are corrupted.
        Breakable windows are opaque until broken. Once
        broken they have a corrupted texture.
-3Dfx Voodoo 3
 Various textures are corrupted. Breakable windows are
        opaque until broken. Once broken they have a corrupted
        texture. Transparent red bomb placements are invisible.
-3Dfx Voodoo Banshee cards
-Matrox G400 and G450
 Frame rate is often below 10 frames per second even at
        the lowest video settings. Level load times are longer
        than normal.
-Nvidia Vanta
        These older cards yield a frame rate that is often
        below 10 frames per second even at the lowest video
        settings.
-PowerVR NEON 250 cards:
 Video Logic PowerVR Neon 250
-S3 Savage 2000 cards:
 Diamond Viper II
-S3 Savage 4 cards:
 Diamond Stealth III S540
 Diamond Stealth III S540 Extreme
-SiS 300 cards
The following sound card isn t supported:
-Ensoniq SoundScape PNP
The following sound cards have known problems:
-Diamond Monster Sound MX 400
 Requires turning off  DirectSound Acceleration  in the
 driver. See the detailed explanation under
  Troubleshooting. 
-Creative Labs Audigy
 Currently hardware acceleration for this card does not
 work correctly.
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Hard Drive Space
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Previous complete installation of:
Medal of Honor Allied Assault tm 
600 MB of free hard drive space is required to install the game.
More space is also needed for save games. Each save game is nearly
0.5 MB and there are 9 single-player levels in the game. At the 
start of each level a new auto-save game is created. So another
30 MB of space is a good idea for both auto saves and manually
saved games.
Additionally, Windows will require its own free hard drive space
for its operating system  virtual memory . The amount of space
required varies from 100 MB to 250 MB. If you have less than
250 MB free space you may encounter the following message in an
error dialog:
  Ran out of virtual memory 
If you encounter this message, free up some hard drive space.
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Additional Features Missing from the Manual
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Multiplayer Feature
You now have the ability to kick team killers from the multiplayer games via vote. In a 
multiplayer game when friendly fire is turned on you can call for a vote to kick same team 
killers off of the server. 
Resetting the Sound Quality
If you reset the sound quality in the Sound Options section they will not take place until
you exit the game and restart. 
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Improving Gameplay Performance
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Some machines will benefit from experimenting with your
video/sound options:
 - From the Main Menu choose the  Options  menu signified
          by some electronic equipment towards the left side on
          the table. Then select the  Video  menu, select  Texture
          Detail  and choose  LOW .
 - Also from the  Video  menu uncheck the  WALL DECALS 
          check box. This will prevent the game from creating 
          bullet marks on walls and should improve performance.
        - Try reducing your video resolution to 640x480 or even
          512x384 in your  Video  menu. The lower the resolution,
          the easier it is for your computer to run the game.
 - From the  Video  menu you can try lowering your color
          depth from 32 to 16 bit.
 - Video cards with less than 64MB Video memory cannot set
          texture detail to high and texture color depth to 32 bit simultaneously. 
          These cards can get very poor performance at times, so lower your 
          texture detail and/or lower your texture depth to 16 bit.
 - From the  Advanced  menu under the  Options  menu try
          turning the  SHADOWS  down to  simple  or  none . Note that on 
          some machines setting to Complex will cause your frame rate to 
          drop by up to one half.
        - In Advanced Video Options you can change your View
          Model. This allows one to choose how much of their own
          player model is shown. 
          NONE means player s arm and weapon will not appear.
          GUN ONLY means the gun and not the arms of Sgt Barnes will appear. 
          FULL means that you will see both Sgt Barnes  hands and the weapon 
          he is holding during gameplay. The less of Sgt Barnes that is showing, 
          the faster the game should run.
        - If you are using the Nvidia GeForce chipsets, it is recommended that 
          you set your Digital Vibrance setting to low or medium dependent on 
          preference. By doing so, there is much more of a contrast to the colors 
          which, in turn, adds a lot to the ambience. Results: the lighting really pops 
          out and adds increased production value.
          You can set your Digital Vibrance by doing the following:
             -Right click on your desktop
              -Choose Properties
              -Choose Settings
              -Choose Advanced
              -Choose Color Correction
              -Digital Vibrance is located at the top of the Color Correction box
         The best results were viewed by setting this on low.
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Troubleshooting
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Windows XP
-If you are using Windows XP, you must have administrator rights 
to install and run Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead.  If 
you have administrator rights, and wish to give a  limited user  
administrator rights, you can do this in  Users  section of the 
Windows XP Control Panel.  
Video Card Drivers
-Some video card drivers do not support OpenGL correctly. Typical
problems that may occur with these drivers include:
 - Crashing on starting up
 - Crashing when changing video resolutions
 - Corrupted textures
 - Garbage artifacts on screen
 - Unexpected bright flashing on screen
 - Unusually slow performance.
The solution is to go to your video card manufacturer s website
and download updated drivers for your card. It is highly
recommended that, given an option, you download and install
Microsoft-certified  WHQL  drivers.
-Video Resolution of 1600x1200
A resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels is not fully supported and has 
been found to have problems with various video cards. If the game
crashes you can run in safe mode and adjust your resolution back 
to a stable and desirable setting.
-Video Resolution of 1152x864
A resolution of 1152 x 864 pixels has been found to have problems
with various video cards. In this resolution the program may appear
to be running in a windowed application. If this is unacceptable 
please adjust your resolution back to a stable and desirable setting. 
-Win95 OpenGL Fix
Users of Windows 95 and Windows 95a may get a missing dll error.
The error message occurs when starting the game on either of these
operating systems stating,  Error Starting Program - A required
.DLL file, GLU32.dll, was not found.   This is a result of the
OpenGL runtime libraries for Windows95 not being bundled with the
earlier versions of Windows 95.  There is an OpenGL v.1.1 patch
for Windows 95 available on Disk 2 of Medal of Honor Allied
Assault. It is located in the  Win95OpenGLfix  folder and is
called  opengl95.exe . Simply run this file from the CD. Once this
OpenGL update is installed the game will run fine on Windows 95
and Windows 95a.
-Dual Monitors
Dual monitors are not supported. Disabling the secondary video
card will allow the game to run with dual monitors.
Sound Card Drivers
-Diamond Monster Sound MX 400
How to fix the MX 400 for use by Medal of Honor Allied Assault:
 1  Exit from Medal of Honor Allied Assault if you are
                running the game.
 2  Open up the  Diamond Monster Sound  utility from
  the toolbar; this is a small red and white icon
  near the clock.
 3  Make sure the  Enable DirectSound Acceleration 
  checkbox is off.
        4       Click on the  Apply And Exit  button. You should
                be able to run Medal of Honor Allied Assault
                without a problem.
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Other Issues
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Multiplayer:
-The IPX Protocol is not supported, only TCP/IP is.
-Players can, on rare occasion, turn invisible in multiplayer.
You may see another player s model appear over a spawn point
stuck in mid-stride. That player will be able to move around and
will appear invisible to you although he may be visible to other
players. Simply disconnect and re-connect to the server to fix
this.
Keyboard Controls:
-Some PC keyboards cannot recognize certain combinations of 3 or
more simultaneously pressed keys. This is an inherent problem
unrelated to Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead.
Advanced Console Commands from the Advanced Options menu:
-By default the advanced console will not be available
unless the option is checked in the  Options  menu. From this
console you will be able to make advanced console commands. The
normal console is active by default and allows you to post
messages to everyone else in multiplayer.
Listen Servers  non-dedicated servers  in Multiplayer
-There is a known issue where the player on the server may 
become invisible. This occurs most frequently on a Free For All
type game.
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Electronic Arts Copyright
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Software and Documentation    2002 Electronic Arts Inc.