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 Viper Racing Demo 2.2
  Release Notes              
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REQUIREMENTS:
 - Direct3D-compatible 3D accelerator with 4MB VRAM
 - DirectX 5.0 or better
 - Pentium 133MHz or better
 - 32 MB RAM
 - 30 MB Hard disk space, plus 40 MB free
 - Mouse or trackball
RECOMMENDED:
 - Pentium II 233MHz
 - 3dfx Voodoo graphics card or a fast AGP card.
 - Windows-compatible Joystick or Wheel

IN-GAME KEY REFERENCE:
    ESC.................Bring up race menu (use up/down arrow and return)
    SPACE...............Teleport and repair
  Joystick default controls:
    Button 1............Throttle
    Button 2............Brake
    X-Axis..............Steering
  Keyboard default controls:
    Up Arrow............Throttle
    Down Arrow..........Brake
    Left/Right Arrow....Steering
    E-brake.............E
    Horn................H
  Camera controls:
    F1..................Cockpit view
    F2..................Bumper cam
    F3..................Chassis cam
    F4..................Reverse view
    F5..................Near chase
    F6..................Mid chase
    F7..................Far chase
    F8..................Reverse chase
    F9..................Overhead
    F10.................Blimp
    F11.................TV cameras
    1...................Toggle overlay
    PgUp................Previous driver
    PgDn................Next driver
    Home................Return to player car

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NOTES:
It is important to have recent drivers for your video card, as many
cards ship with buggy or incomplete DirectX drivers, which can cause
anything from visual glitches to system crashes.  Contact your card
manufacturer for more information, or check their web site.

To get your joystick or wheel to work in the game, you MUST setup your
joystick in Windows.  To do this, open the Control Panel, and open
the Game Controllers applet, and add your joystick and calibrate it here.

If you use a gamepad, you should make sure the "Gamepad" checkbox is
checked in the Controls Options menu in the game, or else your steering
will be jerky.

The demo requires DirectX 5.0 or better.
DirectX information can be found on the World Wide Web at
 http://www.microsoft.com/directx/
If you have a Voodoo and another 3D card, the game will default
to the Voodoo.  To use your primary adapter, run the game by typing
    "Viper Racing Demo" -1
at the Start Menu's "Run..." dialog box, or modifying the Start Menu
shortcut equivalently.

IMPROVING SENSATION OF SPEED:
* If you are getting a choppy frame rate, try going to the Graphics options
menu, and turning down detail and draw distance, turn off mirror and effects.
If you can turn off "Sync to vertical blank" on your Display control panel,
this will often help frame rate as well.

* Racing from the F2 or F3 (bumper or xray) cameras gives a much better
sensation of speed, as well as more feel for "drifting".

* Drive faster!  ;)  Our office's best lap time (sim) is 58.73...
  a new "ace" setup is found in the Viper Racing Demo\Config\Setups directory
  under "Troy.html"
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We welcome your comments, complaints, and suggestions!
Please e-mail feedback to
 feedback@mgiracing.com
and bugs to
 bugs@mgiracing.com
(the program creates a file c:\log.log which is very useful to
the developers; including a copy of this with your e-mail is a huge help!)
Replay (.rpl) files can be found in the following folder:
c:\program files\sierra\Viper racing demo\config\replay

Thanks to everyone who sent us feedback about the first demo; it helped
us find and fix a number of bugs as well as make other improvements!

KNOWN BUGS:
 * Switching back to the Desktop while the game is running may cause sound
    to be muted, or even a crash on some systems.
 * Sound might not work on a few machines, or have crackling

 * Blocky trees with S3 Virge and NEC PowerVR cards--these cards do not
    support color-keyed transparent textures.  Also, the Matrox Millenium I,
    (not II), doesn't support texture mapping(!), so the game will not run
    on this card.

FIXED FROM 2.0 DEMO:
 * Replay crash fixed
 * Uninstall fixed
 * Cyrix fix
 * CreateFileMapping fix
 * 2MB card support, better video card compatibility
 * New road texture
 * Skid/offroad sound fix
 * In multiplayer, IP addresses can be pasted from the clipboard with Ctrl-V
 * "Auto E-mail" removed
 * "Same setup" in multiplayer fixed
 * Sound fixes
 * New engine sound

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Please do not hesitate to e-mail us with problems or questions, as
we love fixing bugs. (bugs@mgiracing.com)