City Life Demo [FRENCH]

City Life Demo [FRENCH]

This is the French demo for City Life, an urban design and management simulation. The demo includes a tutorial and one complete mission scenario. If you speak and read French, give it a whirl. If you don't speak French, an English demo should be out soon.

City Life [FRENCH] Demo

Version 1.00

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Table of contents

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I. Important notes

II. Minimum system requirements

III. GUI

IV. Game Controls

V. Troubleshooting

I. IMPORTANT NOTES:

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- Please close down all programs before running City Life Demo.

Task switching is not advised while you run City Life Demo,

several problems might arise from that action!

- This game was optimized for current NVidia and ATI video cards.

You may experience problems on other video cards.

- Changing the game's graphical implies quitting the game in order for the modifications to take place.

II. Minimum system requirements

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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

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Windows ME, 2000 Professional Service Pack 2, XP Professional, or XP Home operating system

Intel Pentium IV (or compatible) CPU running at 1500Mhz or higher

64MB DirectX 9 compatible video card (Geforce4Ti or better, ATI Radeon 8500 or better)

256MB of RAM

DirectX compatible sound card

1.5 Gb of HD space

OPTIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

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Windows ME, 2000 Professional Service Pack 2, XP Professional, or XP Home operating system

Intel Pentium IV (or compatible) CPU running at 2500Mhz or higher

128MB+ DirectX 9 compatible video card (GeforceFX or better, ATI Radeon 9800 or better)

512MB of RAM

DirectX compatible sound card

1.5 Gb of HD space

III. Game User Interface (GUI):

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In the lower left corner is the minimap. It shows the buildable area and the existing buildings.

City services are shown as green dots on the minimap, other buildings are displayed in the color of the urban culture they belong to.

On the left side of the screen is the build menu. It allows to select what you want to build.

On the upper part of the screen is displayed the city current status information. It includes the city's funds, income, current population, and the way the population is split between the six urban cultures.

In the top right corner of the screen, your current progression in the game.

In the bottom right corner of the screen, the "media report" interface, giving you information and advices in the form of short movies.

Bringing your mouse cursor on the media report will show the text of the report.

You can access the navigation interface by pressing the "escape" key during the game.

IV. Game Controls:

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Bringing the mouse cursor on the game screen borders will move the camera.

Use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out.

Hotkeys:

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In-game controls:

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ESC - Navigation menu

SPACE - Pause the game

P - Pause the game

NUM+ - Increase Game Speed

NUM- - Decrease Game Speed

CTRL+ALT+C - Open the console to enter cheatcodes

Camera Movement keys:

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UP ARROW - Camera Forward Deplacement

DOWN ARROW - Camera Backward Deplacement

LEFT ARROW - Camera Left Deplacement

RIGHT ARROW - Camera Right Deplacement

CTRL+LEFT - Rotate Camera Left

CTRL+RIGHT - Rotate Camera Right

PAGE UP - Zoom In

PAGE DOWN - Zoom Out

V. Troubleshooting

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It is highly recommended to use the latest versions of all device

drivers (i.e. video, sound card drivers). Consult your card manufacturer

for their newest drivers. Keep in mind that video chip manufacturers

provide drivers in addition to the card manufacturer.

If you are experiencing an unstable PC environment make sure your

Motherboard drivers are up to date.

Make sure you have Microsoft DirectX 9.0c installed.

If you are seeking further informations or drivers, check the homepages

of the following hardware manufacturers:

3D labs: http://www.3dlabs.com/

ATI Technologies: http://www.atitech.com/

Creative Labs: http://us.creative.com/

Diamond Multimedia / S3: http://www.diamondmm.com/

Hercules: http://www.hercules.com/

Intel: http://www.support.intel.com/

Matrox: http://www.matrox.com/

nVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com/

Terratec: http://www.terratec.net/