WipeOut

Technical Support and Installation Addendum

WipeOut makes use of state-of-the art programming technology and hardware. Because of this, WipeOut may require special installation procedures to work properly on your particular configuration.

Minimum Requirements:

486DX2 66mhz 4M RAM, Recommended Pentium 90 with 8MB Ram.

Vga Graphics

Mouse and Keyboard option

MS DOS 6.0 and above

2X CD ROM drive or better

25 Meg hard disk space required

Supports all popular soundcards

Installation Problems?

WipeOut is a DOS based program and must be run from DOS. Windows must be shut off completely in order for the program to run properly. To exit Windows 3.1/3.11, just click "File" from the Program Manager and select "Exit Windows". For users with Win95, You must click "Start" from the Start menu, "Shutdown", and "Restart in MS-DOS mode". When you get a C:\>, just switch to your CD ROM drive and type "Install".

It is possible to get the game to run under Win95, in some cases. Please download the Win95 Installation guide PDF file for more info.

Music & Sound Problems?

Once the game is installed, type "Setup" from your CD-ROM drive (usually D:\) to select your sound and music cards.

Still no music?

Well, in your Autoexec.bat file, make sure that you have a line that sets up your sound environment. It varies from system to system, but generally looks like this:

Set Sound=C:\SOUNDDRIVERS

Where the SOUNDRIVERS is substituted for the directory your sound card's drivers are in (usually C:\SB16)

What? No sound effects?

Also in your Autoexec.bat file, make sure that you have a line that reads somewhat like this:

Set Blaster=Axxx Ix Dx Tx

This statement lets us know what hardware settings your sound card is using. The usual values are hex address A220 , interrupt I5, DMA channels D1 and T1.

Why isn't the mouse responding?

Check in your Autoexec.bat file to see if you have a mouse driver installed. If not, then install the DOS drivers for your mouse from the disk it came with.

Insufficient base memory?

If you do not have sufficient memory to run WipeOut on your configuration, free up some DOS memory by either removing some TSR's, or booting from a disk which is free of device drivers and TSRs (TSRs and device drivers are memory resident programs which can take precious conventional memory). In addition, MS-DOS 5.0 and above have special facilities to help you free up DOS memory.

The DOS command CHKDSK will tell you how much free memory you currently have available. WipeOut runs without expanded memory. . Therefore, your EMM386 line in your config.sys file should read "C:\DOS\EMM386.exe NOEMS".

To free up more base memory, proceed to the boot disk informationon the following pages. A simple Autoexec.bat and Config.sys file will easily free up enough memory to run WipeOut.