Longbow Gold Patch Text File Jane's Combat Simulations: AH-64D Longbow Gold v1.04F ----------------------------------------------------- (C) 1997, Origin Systems, Inc. This document may not, in whole or part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form without prior consent, in writing from Origin Systems, Inc. Origin Systems, Inc. believes the information contained in this document is accurate and reliable. Origin Systems, Inc. reserves the right to update this manual at any time and without notice. To find out the latest information about AH-64D Longbow, check out our Internet Web site http://www.janes.ea.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To print a hardcopy of this file, at the DOS prompt, change to the directory where this file is and type : PRINT PATCH.TXT [ENTER] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Fixes II. Installing the patch III. DXSETUP IV. Customer Service/Tech Support ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I. FIXES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Skipping/Garbled Speech: Some users have reported the in-flight speech would skip or sound garbled. This has been corrected. 2. Movie Player: On some machines the movie player could occassionally lock up, skip, or crash to the desktop. The movie player has been improved to reduce the occurence of these issues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. INSTALLING THE PATCH ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: If the hardware on your machine is not DirectX cerified you may experience a decrease in performance after installing the patch. See the next section, DirectX and DXSETUP, for information on how to check whether or not your hardware is certified. Copy The file LBG104e.EXE into the Longbow Gold directory (default is C:\JANES\LBGOLD). Goto the MS-DOS prompt and change into your Longbow Gold directory. Type LBG104E and press [enter]. The patch will extract itself. Then type PATCH and press [enter]. It will update the appropriate files. You should receive a message indicating success. After the patch has been correctly installed, press ALT-V when you are within the game. If it reads AH-64D Longbow Gold v1.04F, the patch is correctly installed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III. DIRECTX AND DXSETUP ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What Is DirectX? Microsoft DirectX is a programming language extension that is available with the Microsoft Game Software Development Kit (SDK). DirectX components include DirectDraw, DirectInput, DirectPlay, and DirectSound. DirectX provides tight integration between applications, hardware and graphics accelerators for maximum graphics performance and easy customer installation. DirectX drivers do this by providing software developers with a native Windows-based programming alternative to the older MS-DOS-based display and sound specification. DXSETUP: To check if your hardware is DirectX cerified, do the following. 1. Insert Longbow Gold CD #1 (exit the Origin Gateway) 2. Double-click My Computer. 3. Right-click on the CD-ROM disc icon. 4. Click Explore. 5. Double-click the DirectX folder. 6. Double-click DXSETUP.EXE. NOTE: The audio system has been adjsuted to take better advantage of DirectX's DirectSound. If your Audio drivers are listed with No Hardware Support, you may find your performance will decrease if you install the patch. If you find that your performance does decrease after installing the patch, copy out the ROSTER.DAT file (your savegames) from the Longbow Gold directory. Then uninstall and reinstall the game. Finally, copy the ROSTER.DAT file back into the Longbow Gold directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Customer Service/Tech Support ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any trouble or questions please feel free to contact us in any of the following ways: ORIGIN Phone Tech Support: (512) 434-HELP (512) 434-4357 9-5 C.S.T Hours subject to change. ORIGIN FAX Tech Support: (512) 795-8014 Fax's will be responded to by fax - please include a fax number. 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