TIE FIGHTER CD Demo

                         READ.ME FILE



CONTENTS:

     I)  Playing the Demo

    II) Known Problems with TIE Fighter CD.

    III) Making a Boot Disk for TIE Fighter CD.

    IV) Sound and Music issues.

     V) Video Card and Display issues.

    VI) Running TIE Fighter within WINDOWS 95.

    VII) Making TIE Fighter run Faster and Better.

     VIII) Miscellaneous.


I)  Playing the Demo

First, play the Chrysler Virtual Mall program and look for important
information on launching the TIE Fighter CD Demo.  Then, follow the instructions
below.

Before starting any of the demos, we recommend that 
you shut down all other applications.  This process
will ensure that the demos have the maximum amount
of memory that your machine can offer.

TIE Fighter CD is NOT a Windows 95 game, although it can be 
installed and  launched through Windows 95 by following 
the instructions below.

Note:  If you do choose to try to run this DOS demo under
Windows 95 in a low-memory situation, you may experience some 
choppy sound.

INSTALLING the TIE Fighter Demo

To install TIE Fighter Demo from DOS, first 
boot your machine. Then:
1.) Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2.)  Type D: (or the letter of your CD-ROM drive) 
then press ENTER. Your computer will show the prompt "D:\".
3.)  Change to the TIEDEMO directory by typing cd tiedemo.
4.) Type install and press ENTER.
5.)  Follow the on-screen instructions to install and configure 
TIE Fighter to run on your computer system.
NOTE: You can re-configure TIE Fighter Demo at any time by typing 
install from your D:\TIEDEMO directory. Your changes will be saved 
automatically when you exit the Configuration program.

To install TIE Fighter on a hard drive using Windows95:
1.)  Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2.)  From your START MENU choose RUN.
3.)  Type D:\TIEDEMO\INSTALL
4.)  Follow the on-screen instructions to install and 
configure TIE Fighter to run on your computer system.
NOTE: You can re-configure TIE Fighter Demo at any time by 
typing d:\tiedemo\install from RUN in your START menu. 
Your changes will be saved automatically when you exit the 
Configuration program.

STARTING the TIE Fighter Demo:

To start TIE Fighter Demo from DOS:
1.)  Type D: (or the letter of you CD-ROM drive) then press ENTER.  
2.)  At the D:\ type CD TIEDEMO
3.)  From the D:\ TIEDEMO directory, type TIE then press ENTER

To start TIE Fighter Demo from WINDOWS 95:
1.)  Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2.)  From your START MENU choose RUN.
3.)  Type D:\TIEDEMO\TIE


1.)  After the introduction sequence has finished, you will be
   asked to calibrate your joystick.  You will then be taken to the
   Briefing Room.

2.)  Pre-Flight:  To talk to the Briefing Officer, left-click on him.
   He will give you the general mission outline as well as your ship
   assignment.
   To talk to the Cloaked Figure, left-click on him.  He will tell you
   of any secret missions to keep an eye out for.
   Once you have talked with them, click on the Enter Mission door
   at the bottom right of the sscreen to start the mission.

3.)  In-Flight:  To see all of the keystrokes at your disposal, 
   push the "K" key.  NOTE:  For this demo, the camera feature is
   inactive.

4.)  If you succeed in the mission, clicking on the Briefing Officer
   or the Cloaked Figure will bring up their comments on your
   performance.  If you fail in the mission, clicking on them will
   offer tips on how to succeed.

5.)  The Personal Datapad - Hitting ESC at anytime while not
   in flight will bring up the PDA.  Use the PDA to change game 
   settings, such as the sound and music volumes, difficulty of the
   mission and in-flight resolution.

6.)  To exit the program back to DOS or Windows95, press ESC
   to activate the PDA and click on the DOS button.
  

II) Known Problems with TIE Fighter CD.

   1) Some of the animated cutscenes may stop and stutter as
    they are being played. To alleviate this problem, remove
    any CD-ROM caching utilities such as SMARTDRV.EXE from
    your boot-up configuration.  If you are unsure about how
    to do this, it is highly recommended that you make a boot
    disk for TIE Fighter CD.  Refer to the next section for
    details on how to make a boot disk.

   2) If you are running the demo in Windows 95, we recommend
    that you do not use the ALT-TAB or ALT-ESC keystrokes while
    playing the demo.


III) Making a Boot Disk for TIE Fighter CD Demo.

   If you are trying to run the demo under Windows 95 but are
   experiencing difficulty, try restarting Windows in MS-DOS
   Mode and running the demo from there.  If you're still having
   difficulty, try making a boot disk.

   To make a boot disk, select the "Make a Boot Disk" option
   from the main menu of the install program.  Make sure you
   have a floppy disk available to use as your boot disk.
   (Note: you must use the A: drive to make your boot disk.)
   You will be instructed at each step of the process of
   making your boot disk.

   Alternately, you may run boottie.exe from the
   TIE Fighter CD by typing:

      D:\TIEDEMO\BOOTTIE.EXE

   where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.


IV) Sound and Music Issues.

   1) Setting up your sound card.
   
   After selecting the "Set Up Sound Card" option from the
   install program you will be asked to choose either Express
   Setup or Custom Setup. If you choose Express Setup, the
   program will attempt to set up your sound board
   automatically. If the install program fails to configure
   your sound board automatically, you should choose Custom
   Setup. 

   From the Custom Setup Standard Menu you can choose from
   the sound standards supported by TIE Fighter and manually
   set the Port, IRQ, DMA, and Stereo Reverse settings.  You
   can also test your configuration for both music and sound.
   In some cases, you may want to select the Advanced Menu.
   This menu allows you to select the Music and Digital Sound
   standards for TIE Fighter independently of each other.
   This is most useful for systems with more than one sound
   board, or sound boards which support more than one
   standard.

   2) Hanging Notes or Pauses while using General MIDI.
   
   We have found that some sound cards with General MIDI
   daughterboards may experience hanging notes or pauses and
   occasionally the demo may lock up.  If this occurs, disable
   General MIDI and choose the FM driver for your sound and it
   should work fine.  To do this, re-run TIE Fighter CD's Sound
   setup utility from the main menu of the install program and
   choose Express setup.  We are researching a solution to this
   problem.

   3) Poor digital sound quality.
   
   We have found that some sound cards such as Aztech Sound
   Galaxy, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16/Studio, and ESS
   Audiodrive, may have intermittent static or other sound
   distortion in the voices and sound effects of TIE Fighter
   CD while playing within a Windows 95 DOS Box.  If this
   occurs, try restarting in MS-DOS mode to play the demo
   or make a boot disk.  
   

 V) Video Card and Display issues.
   
  1) Diamond Viper Video Card
  
   The Diamond Viper requires a driver for VESA compatibility.
   UNiVBE does not support this card, therefore, you will need
   to load the VESA driver that came with your card.  The
   driver, usually located in C:\VIPER, is called VPRMODE.EXE.
  
   At the C:\VIPER> command prompt, type:
  
      VPRMODE VESA

   Then start TIE Fighter CD. You may wish to include this
   command in the Autoexec.bat file on your boot disk to play
   TIE Fighter CD in high-resolution.  Check the documentation
   that came with your video card for more information.

   NOTE: TIE Fighter CD may not work in high-resolution with
         some versions of the Diamond Viper display card.  If
         your Viper is one of these, entering the combat
         portion of the demo while it is set to high-res will
         result in corrupted graphics or a black screen.  If
         this occurs, restart your computer, and set TIE
         Fighter CD to low-resolution (320x200) in the Pilot
         Datapad.

  2) Getting high-res mode to work with a VESA Compatible card.

   If you are having trouble getting TIE Fighter to work
   properly with your VESA compatible video card in high
   resolution, try forcing UNiVBE by using the /u option when
   you start TIE Fighter CD.  Do this by typing:
 
     D:\TIEDEMO\TIE.EXE /u
 
   For more information, Please refer to the 'Display Concerns'
   section in the Troubleshooting Guide included with the demo. 

   NOTE: In very rare instances, specifying the /u option to
   force UniVBE will cause the demo to lock up.  In this case,
   try using the /v option instead.  Do this by typing:

     D:\TIEDEMO\TIE.EXE /v

   where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.  Specifying
   the /v option will cause an options screen to pop up
   before the demo starts asking the user to configure UNiVBE
   for their video card manually.  Usually, you just have to
   press RETURN and then the demo will run as normal.  If you
   know that the configuration selected for you by default is
   incorrect, you may choose to change it before hitting the
   OK button.

  3) Adjusting Display Brightness while in flight.
  
   If you find the colors in the inflight portion of
   the demo too dark, you can adjust the brightness by
   pressing ALT-B.  Repeated presses will cycle through
   eight different brightness settings.


VI) Running TIE Fighter CD Demo within WINDOWS 95.

  Here are some tips on getting TIE Fighter to run well
  within Windows 95. 

  1) TIE Fighter CD runs best in Windows 95 if there are
    no other programs running. Since Windows 95 is a 
    multitasking system, it may switch away from the demo
    to run the other processes, causing long delays, stuttering
    sound, or other problems. First, turn off any programs
    that are listed on the task bar. Second, if you are running
    any "shell" program such as Microsoft Office, Hewlett
    Packard Personal Pages, Packard Bell Navigator, or Norton
    Desktop, refer to that program's manual for instructions
    on how to suspend them while you play TIE Fighter. 

  2) As is with other disk caching utilities, Windows 95's built
    in CD-ROM caching may slow down some parts of TIE Fighter
    and may also cause the problems described above. While you
    can turn off CD-ROM caching in Windows 95, this may
    negatively affect other programs. We recommend running the
    demo from a boot disk instead.

  3) Some users may get a "Stack Overflow" error message
    when first starting the demo. If you experience this 
    problem, first try running the demo off a boot disk.
    Refer to Section III: "Making a Boot Disk" for more 
    detail. 

    If the problem remains, try adding the following line to 
    the CONFIG.SYS file on the boot disk:

           STACKS = 9,256

    Then reboot the computer and try running TIE Fighter CD
    with the boot disk again.

  4) If you still experience problems while running the TIE
    Fighter CD in Windows 95, keep in mind that you can make
    a boot disk at any time and use it to run the demo in a true
    DOS environment; you won't have to reinstall TIE Fighter
    CD. The boot disk has been designed to provide the best
    environment for running the demo.



 VII) Making TIE Fighter Run Faster and Better.

  Here are some tips on making your TIE Fighter playing
  experience more enjoyable.

  1) Use a good joystick.  We recommend the CH Products
    Flightstick line of joysticks, and the Thrustmaster
    line of products as well.

  2) Use the RETURN (i.e. ENTER) key to match speed with
    your target.

  3) Use the 'r' key to target the nearest enemy.

  4) Use the '.' (period) key to toggle the cockpit art
    off when you are dogfighting a tough opponent.

  5) Use the SHIFT-H command to send a targeted ship home
    (allies only).  Some ships, such as reload craft,
    may await your permission to depart.  And for a 
    greater challenge, try sending your wingmen home
    with this command.

  6) Customize TIE Fighter to your preferences.  Press
    ESC during a mission to customize the combat portion
    of the demo.  Any settings you change will stay that
    way until you change them back.

  7) If the demo runs too slowly when there is a lot of
    action try using the ALT-D command to set the Graphics
    detail to LOW or LOWEST.

  8) If you are waiting for something, or simply have a
    long way to go in order to get to the hangar, you can
    use ALT-T to cause time to pass either 2 or 4 times as
    quickly (there is an indicator at the bottom right
    corner of your cockpit display that will show the
    rate of time passage as 2x or 4x).

  9) If the demo seems to be running slow in DOS mode,
    check to make sure you don't have DOS shells running.
    Some common DOS shells are Norton Commander, Xtree
    Gold, and Microsoft DOSshell.  Booting from a boot disk
    and then launching TIE Fighter CD directly from the
    DOS prompt is the best way to avoid problems.


 VIII) Miscellaneous.

  1) TIE Fighter tries to make disk access faster by
    keeping frequently accessed files open.  This means
    that you must set a FILES=nn line in your CONFIG.SYS
    to allow DOS to have nn files open at once. We
    recommend you set FILES=30.  It is recommended that
    you modify the CONFIG.SYS only on your boot disk.

  2) There is a cool new feature in TIE Fighter CD that
    allows you to capture a screen shot any time in the
    demo.  Simply press ALT-o when the screen you want
    is showing, and the program will save a SCREEN??.PCX
    file to your installation directory.  Each time you
    press ALT-o, a new .PCX file will be written to the
    directory under a different filename, so you can
    capture as many screen shots as you have hard disk
    space for.


TIE Fighter and Defender of the Empire games (c) 1994, 1995 
Lucasfilm Ltd.  Enemies of the Empire game (c) 1995 Lucasfilm 
Ltd. All Rights Reserved.  Used Under Authorization.  
X-Wing game (c) 1992 Lucasfilm Ltd.  Star Wars and X-Wing are 
registered trademarks, and TIE Fighter, Defender of the Empire 
and Enemies of the Empire are trademarks, of Lucasfilm Ltd..  
The LucasArts logo is a registered trademark and iMUSE is a 
trademark of LucasArts Entertainment Company. iMUSE U.S. 
Patent No. 5,315,057.

