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Dirt Track Racing Sprint Cars Demo

Jump behind the wheel of a speedy sprint car and race across...

  • Category Racing
  • Size 18.2 MB
  • Program by Ratbag

Dirt Track Racing Sprint Cars Demo

Jump behind the wheel of a speedy sprint car and race across the dirt track to victory.

Dirt Track Racing - Sprint Cars

version 0.50 (demo)

Copyright + 2000 Ratbag, Pty Ltd.

www.ratbaggames.com

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1. Notes

2. System Requirements

3. Graphics Configuration

4. Input Configuration

5. Multiplayer

6. Command Line Options

7. Troubleshooting

8. Final Note

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1. Notes

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This is the demo of Ratbag's new title Dirt Track Racing - Sprint Cars

(DTRSC). Check out our website www.ratbaggames.com for updates and

information.

Please note that in order to minimise the size of the demo, the textures

and in-game graphics have been JPEG compressed. This may result in

reduced image quality.

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2. System Requirements

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Minimum System requirements:

Operating System: Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000

Intel Pentium® 166 or 100% compatible

32 MB RAM

60 MB of free Hard Disk space

High Colour (16 bit colour) capable video card (DirectX compatible)

DirectX 6

100% Compatible Mouse

Recommended configuration:

Intel Pentium® 233MMX or better

64 MB RAM

3D Accelerator: Glide® or Direct3D® compatible video card with at

least 8 Mb of RAM

DirectSound, DirectSound3D, Aureal3D or EAX compatible sound card

DirectX compatible force feedback device

AMD K6-2/Athlon 3DNow! optimisation supported

Pentium III (Katmai) optimisation supported

This demo requires DirectX, but does not include it for reasons of

size. If you do not already have DirectX 7.0 or newer, then download

it from:

http://www.microsoft.com/directx/

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3. Graphics Configuration

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When DTRSC is run, it will first prompt you for which Graphics driver

you wish to use.

Selecting 'Autodetect' will select the optimum graphics driver for your

system.

Select 'Glide' if you have a non-Banshee 3DFX video card. This will be

selected automatically by 'Autodetect'.

Select 'Banshee' if you have a Banshee 3DFX video card. This will be

selected automatically by 'Autodetect'. Note that all available drivers

for the Voodoo Banshee video card contain a bug, in that they do not

properly support certain texture management functions. Selecting the

'Glide' driver if you have a Voodoo Banshee will result in a corrupted

display.

Select 'Direct3D' if you have a Direct3D compatible video card, or wish

to run Direct3D on your 3DFX card. This will be selected automatically

by 'Autodetect', unless you have a 3DFX card. For optimum performance

under Direct3D with an AGP video card, you should ensure that you have

either Windows 98 or Windows 95 OSR 2.1 or newer. DTRSC will not run in

Direct3D under Windows 2000 - you must select 'Glide' (for a 3DFX card)

or 'Software'.

Select 'Software' to use the software renderer. This will be selected

automatically by 'Autodetect' if you have no 3D hardware.

To change your graphics driver after starting the game, you must exit

and restart it.

If you have a 3D video card, you should ensure that you have the latest

drivers for it. You should also set your gamma level to 1.0 for correct

colour reproduction.

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4. Input Configuration

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The input options section of DTRSC allows you to setup your keys or

other input device. If you have a joystick, wheel or gamepad, before

running DTRSC ensure that it is properly setup and calibrated in the

'Game Controllers' application under the Windows 'Control Panel'. You

should then calibrate the device in the input options of DTRSC. It is

only necessary to calibrate a particular joystick once.

The default keys for control are:

left, right - Steer.

up - Accelerate.

down - Brake.

space - Change camera view.

left shift - Half lock steering.

equals - Move wing forwards.

minus - Move wing backwards.

left square bracket - Look left.

right square bracket - Look right.

Other keys you can use when in a race are:

escape - In multiplayer, quits the race. In single player, pauses

the race and provides a few options, such as exit, resume,

and replay.

F3 - Toggle display of race information.

F4 - Toggle display of the rear view mirror.

F5 - In multiplayer, toggle display of player names.

F12 - Take a screenshot (useable when in a race and when in the

game shell). Screenshots are saved to c:\snap-.tga.

When watching a race in multiplayer, the tab key can be used to switch

between the free camera mode and following each of the cars in turn.

While following a car, the normal change camera view key (space by

default) can be used to change views. When in the free camera mode, use

the mouse to aim the camera. Hold down the left button to accelerate in

the direction the camera is facing, and hold down the right button to

slow down.

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5. Multiplayer

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From within the interface, you can create a new game by selecting 'new

game' on the multiplayer server list screen. Other players on your LAN

will then be able to see the server in their server list, and will be

able to connect to your game.

For Internet play, the simplest way to connect to other games is to use

the GameSpy program in the Start Menu, under Dirt Track Racing - Sprint

Cars. Alternatively, you can specify the IP address of the machine to

connect to. This can be done by selecting 'join IP' on the multiplayer

server list screen. The player who hosts the game can determine their

IP address by selecting Run from the Start menu, and then typing in

'winipcfg' (without the quotes).

Dirt Track Racing - Sprint Cars only supports TCP/IP, so in order to

play on a LAN each machine will need to have TCP/IP networking for the

network card set up. To set up TCP/IP networking, follow these steps:

1. Open My Computer -> Control Panel, then run the Network application.

2. If TCP/IP for your network card is not in the list, then:

a) Click Add.

b) Double-click Protocol.

c) Select Microsoft on the left hand side, and TCP/IP on the right

hand side.

d) Click OK.

3. Select the TCP/IP item in the list, for your network card (not for

dialup networking, if you have that installed).

4. Click Properties.

5. Select the IP Address tab.

6. Click 'Specify an IP address', then enter an IP address of

192.168.0.xxx, where xxx is 1 for machine 1 on your LAN, 2 for

machine 2 on your LAN, etc.

7. Enter a Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

8. Click OK, then OK on the next screen. You will probably need to

restart your computer.

The 'DTRSC Network Server' icon installed on the desktop and in the

start menu can also be used to start a dedicated server, which other

players can connect to. When the server program is run, it will prompt

for some values. If desired, you can select to register the server with

GameSpy, meaning that other players on the Internet will be able to

connect to the server using the GameSpy launcher program. Note that the

server executable does not require the data in order to be able to run.

Players with the full version of DTRSC, as well as players with the demo

version, can join a demo server. However, only full versions of the game

can join full version servers. Demo servers have 'DEMO' as the first

part of their name.

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6. Command Line Options

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DTRSC supports several command line options. These options can be

selected using the 'DTRSC Command Line Options Editor' on the start

menu. Alternatively, you can enter them when running the game from an

MS-DOS prompt, or modify the shortcut you use to run DTRSC.

The options are:

-glide2vsync

Forces the Glide 2 graphics driver to wait for screen refreshes. This

runs slower, but may fix hangs on some Glide video cards, especially

Voodoo 2s.

-nopersistd3d

Causes the Direct3D driver to not retain the same DirectDraw interface

when switching between a race and the interface. This may fix problems

on certain video cards.

-3dsound

As in version 1.02 and above of DTR (the first patch), DTRSC does not

use 3D sound by default. This is because it causes errors on certain

sound cards. Use this option to enable 3D sound if desired.

-nocheckhresult

Certain sounds cards report fatal errors during initialisation even

though the errors are recoverable. Using the -nocheckhresult command

line option will cause DTRSC to ignore fatal errors from the sound card.

Use this option if you receive 'HRESULT Error at ...' messages.

-disablesound

Use this option to disable sound.

-nolaunch

Stops DTRSC from asking you which graphics driver to use every time it

is run. DTRSC will use whichever driver was selected on the last run.

-nointro

Turns off displaying the intro screens.

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7. Troubleshooting

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If you do not hear sound while the in-game movies are playing, this may

be because you do not have an ADPCM audio codec installed. To install

the codec, go to My Computer -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.

Click on the Windows Setup tab, then double-click Multimedia. Tick

Audio Compression, then click OK.

If the movies crash or do not play at all, it is possible that the Indeo

5 video playing codec has not been correctly installed. To check if it

is installed, go to My Computer -> Control Panel -> Multimedia

Properties -> Devices -> Video Compression Codecs, and look for "Indeo®

video 5.10" (or greater). In Windows 2000, the codec can be found under

My Computer -> Control Panel -> Sounds and Multimedia -> Hardware ->

Video Codecs -> Properties -> Properties. If the codec has not been

installed, you will need to reinstall the game.

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8. Final Note

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You cannot modify data - e. g. create custom car skins (paint jobs) - in

the demo of DTRSC. This feature is only available in the full version.

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Dirt Track Racing - Sprint Cars + 2000 Ratbag Pty Ltd. All Rights

Reserved.

Dirt Track Racing - Sprint Cars, Ratbag, the Ratbag logo, and the

Difference Engine are trademarks.

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