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Medal of Honor Allied Assault(tm) Breakthrough Demo Version 1.0
Read Me File
August 29, 2003
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Thank you for downloading the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough
Multiplayer Demo.

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Installation Instructions
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To install the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo:
1) Browse to the file you downloaded and extract its contents.
2) One of the extracted files is "Setup.exe".
3) Double mouse-click "Setup.exe".
4) Follow the instructions that appear, to install the demo.

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Uninstalling Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo
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Windows 95,98, and ME
To uninstall the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Settings".
3) Choose "Control Panel".
4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs"
5) Highlight "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo" and
click the "Add/Remove..." button in the lower right.
6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo.

You can also uninstall the following way:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Programs".
3) Choose "EA GAMES".
4) Choose "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo"
5) Click on "Uninstall MOHAAS Multiplayer Demo"

Windows XP: Home Edition and Professional
To uninstall the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer demo:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Settings".
3) Choose "Control Panel".
4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs"
5) Highlight "Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo" and
click the "Remove" button below its name.
6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo.

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Gameplay Instructions
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All controls are available and customizable from the "Controls"
Menu accessible from the Main Menu. Here is a breakdown of the
default controls.

FUNCTION: KEY/MOUSE USED
Primary Attack: Left mouse button
Secondary Attack: Right mouse button
Reload: r
Move Forward: w
Move Backward: s
Strafe Left: a
Strafe Right: d
Use: e
Jump/Stand Up: Space
Crouch: Left Ctrl
Turn Left: Move mouse left
Turn Right: Move mouse right
Look Up: Move mouse up
Look Down: Move mouse down
Run/Walk: Left Shift
Next Weapon: Mouse Wheel Up
Previous Weapon: Mouse Wheel Down
Holster Weapon: q
Pistol (Colt 45): 1
Rifle (Springfield): 2
SMG (Thompson): 3
MG (BAR): 4
Grenade: 5
Heavy (Panzerschreck): 6
Binoculars: 7

Important Notes:

-Health Packs
Make sure to either walk into or center your view on and
activate the "use" key on these items when in need of
health. Health packs are rectangles with a red cross and
restore a large amount of health. They appear next to
dead bodies in multiplayer.
-Mounted Machine Gun
There is a mounted machine gun that you can walk up to
and activate with the "use" key. To stop using this
mounted gun, type the "use" key again.
-Secondary Attack
Most weapons use the secondary attack. Sniper Rifle zooms
and grenades are thrown a much shorter distance with
secondary attack. Other weapons bash as a secondary attack.

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System Requirements
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MINIMUM CONFIGURATION

Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, or Windows 95
(Windows NT is not supported)
733 MHz Intel Pentium III or 700 MHz AMD Athlon processor
128 MB RAM
8x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
300 MB free hard disk space
16 MB OpenGL capable video card using an NVIDIA GeForce, ATI Radeon, NVIDIA Riva TNT2, ATI Rage 128 or PowerVR3 Kyro II chipset
with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver
DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
Keyboard
Mouse

RECOMMENDED

1 GHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
32 MB or greater supported OpenGL capable video card with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver

The following 16MB or greater 3D accelerators are not fully
supported and do not work properly with the game:

-3Dfx Voodoo 4 and 5
No intro movies play. Various textures are corrupted.
Breakable windows are opaque until broken. Once
broken they have a corrupted texture.
-3Dfx Voodoo 3
Various textures are corrupted. Breakable windows are
opaque until broken. Once broken they have a corrupted
texture. Transparent red bomb placements are invisible.
-3Dfx Voodoo Banshee cards
-Matrox G400 and G450
Frame rate is often below 10 frames per second even at
the lowest video settings. Level load times are longer
than normal.
-Nvidia Vanta
These older cards yield a frame rate that is often
below 10 frames per second even at the lowest video
settings.
-PowerVR NEON 250 cards:
Video Logic PowerVR Neon 250
-S3 Savage 2000 cards:
Diamond Viper II
-S3 Savage 4 cards:
Diamond Stealth III S540
Diamond Stealth III S540 Extreme
-SiS 300 cards

The following sound card isn't supported:
-Ensoniq SoundScape PNP

The following sound cards have known problems:
-Diamond Monster Sound MX 400
Requires turning off "DirectSound Acceleration" in the
driver. See the detailed explanation under
"Troubleshooting."
-Creative Labs Audigy
Currently hardware acceleration for this card does not
work correctly.

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Hard Drive Space
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210 MB of free hard drive space is required to install the demo.

Additionally, Windows will require its own free hard drive space
for its operating system (virtual memory). The amount of space
required varies from 100 MB to 250 MB. If you have less than
250 MB free space you may encounter the following message in an
error dialog:

"Ran out of virtual memory"

If you encounter this message, free up some hard drive space.

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Running Demo with GameSpy Arcade
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How to Play Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo in
GameSpy Arcade:

You can play Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo online
through GameSpy Arcade, which comes conveniently bundled with the
demo. Once you have installed GameSpy Arcade do the following:

Launch GameSpy Arcade and go to the Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo Room: Click on the GameSpy Arcade link in your
Start Menu. When the software starts, you’ll see a list of games
and more along the left-hand side. Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough
Multiplayer Demo Room will appear on the left under the “Demos”
heading. There’s plenty to do, but there’s time for that later:
Click on the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo button
on the left to enter the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough
Multiplayer Demo room. It will appear under the DEMOS listings.

Find and Join a Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo
Server: Once you’re in the Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough
Multiplayer Demo room you can meet or greet other players and find
servers. The top half of the application will list all of the
available servers, including the number of people playing and your
connection speed (measured by something called “ping.” The lower
your ping, the better.) Double-click on a server of your choice to
join. Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo will launch
and automatically connect you to the server you selected. Let the
fun begin!

Problems?
If you have problems using Arcade, whether installing the program,
registering it, or using it in conjunction with Medal of Honor
Allied Assault Breakthrough Multiplayer Demo, consult our help pages,
located at http://www.gamespyarcade.com/help/ or e-mail us by using the
form located at http://www.gamespyarcade.com/support/contact.asp.

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MineSweepers & Land Mines
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The mine detector (and the German Minensuchgerat) can be used to
plant land mines in appropriate terrain. When the player is
standing still over sand, dirt, gravel, snow and grass using the
primary fire button will cause a land mine to be placed. Within
three seconds the land mine will be buried and undetectable by
enemy forces.

Players with the mine detector equipped will be able to
detect buried enemy land mines. These land mines will
become un-buried so that allies can see them and avoid
stepping on them. A player with an equipped mine detector
will be able to remove it (and add a land mine to their
own ammo count) by being close enough to the land mine
and pressing the secondary fire button while aimed at
the land mine.

Players who step on an enemy land mine will reveal
(un-bury) the land mine. Only when the player steps off
the land mine will it explode. Any player (whether they
have the mine detector equipped or not) will defuse a
landmine after standing still on it for 15 seconds.

In a Free-For-All mode game, placed land mines are
hostile to every player besides the one to placed the
land mine. In all other modes of gameplay the land mines
are only hostile to the opposing team.

Buried land mines are vulnerable to being set-off by
the explosions of grenades, bazookas and other land
mines. Players can use these weaspons to make sure a
passage-way is clear of landmines.

A player can only have eight(8) landmines at most
placed on a map. An attempt to place any more landmines
will remove the oldest landmine still active on a map. If
a mine detector using player switches weapon classes or
teams (in a non-FFA game mode) then all the mines that
they've placed in a map will vanish.

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Improving Gameplay Performance
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Some machines will benefit from experimenting with your
video/sound options:

- From the Main Menu choose the "Options" menu signified
by some electronic equipment towards the left side on
the table. Then select the "Video" menu, select "Texture
Detail" and choose "LOW".

- Also from the "Video" menu uncheck the "WALL DECALS"
check box. This will prevent the game from creating
bullet marks on walls and should improve performance.

- Try reducing your video resolution to 640x480 or even
512x384 in your "Video" menu. The lower the resolution,
the easier it is for your computer to run the game.

- From the "Video" menu you can try lowering your color
depth from 32 to 16 bit.

- Video cards with less than 64MB Video memory cannot set
texture detail to high and texture color depth to 32 bit simultaneously.
These cards can get very poor performance at times, so lower your
texture detail and/or lower your texture depth to 16 bit.

- From the "Advanced" menu under the "Options" menu try
turning the "SHADOWS" down to "simple" or "none". Note that on
some machines setting to Complex will cause your frame rate to
drop by up to one half.

- In Advanced Video Options you can change your View
Model. This allows one to choose how much of their own
player model is shown.
NONE means player's arm and weapon will not appear.
GUN ONLY means the gun and not the arms of Sgt Baker will appear.
FULL means that you will see both Sgt Baker' hands and the weapon
he is holding during gameplay. The less of Sgt Baker that is showing,
the faster the game should run.

- If you are using the Nvidia GeForce chipsets, it is recommended that
you set your Digital Vibrance setting to low or medium dependent on
preference. By doing so, there is much more of a contrast to the colors
which, in turn, adds a lot to the ambience. Results: the lighting really pops
out and adds increased production value.
You can set your Digital Vibrance by doing the following:
-Right click on your desktop
-Choose Properties
-Choose Settings
-Choose Advanced
-Choose Color Correction
-Digital Vibrance is located at the top of the Color Correction box
The best results were viewed by setting this on low.

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Troubleshooting
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Windows XP

-If you are using Windows XP, you must have administrator rights
to install and run Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Demo.
If you have administrator rights, and wish to give a "limited user"
administrator rights, you can do this in "User Accounts" section of the
Windows XP Control Panel.

Video Card Drivers

-Some video card drivers do not support OpenGL correctly. Typical
problems that may occur with these drivers include:

- Crashing on starting up
- Crashing when changing video resolutions
- Corrupted textures
- Garbage artifacts on screen
- Unexpected bright flashing on screen
- Unusually slow performance.

The solution is to go to your video card manufacturer's website
and download updated drivers for your card. It is highly
recommended that, given an option, you download and install
Microsoft-certified (WHQL) drivers.

-Video Resolution of 1600x1200
A resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels is not fully supported and has
been found to have problems with various video cards. If the game
crashes you can run in safe mode and adjust your resolution back
to a stable and desirable setting.

-Video Resolution of 1152x864
A resolution of 1152 x 864 pixels has been found to have problems
with various video cards. In this resolution the program may appear
to be running in a windowed application. If this is unacceptable
please adjust your resolution back to a stable and desirable setting.

-Dual Monitors
Dual monitors are not supported. Disabling the secondary video
card will allow the game to run with dual monitors.

Sound Card Drivers

-Diamond Monster Sound MX 400
How to fix the MX 400 for use by Medal of Honor Allied Assault:
1) Exit from Medal of Honor Allied Assault if you are
running the game.
2) Open up the "Diamond Monster Sound" utility from
the toolbar; this is a small red and white icon
near the clock.
3) Make sure the "Enable DirectSound Acceleration"
checkbox is off.
4) Click on the "Apply And Exit" button. You should
be able to run Medal of Honor Allied Assault
without a problem.

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Other Issues
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Multiplayer:

-The IPX Protocol is not supported, only TCP/IP is.

-Players can, on rare occasion, turn invisible in multiplayer.
You may see another player's model appear over a spawn point
stuck in mid-stride. That player will be able to move around and
will appear invisible to you although he may be visible to other
players. Simply disconnect and re-connect to the server to fix
this.

Keyboard Controls:

-Some PC keyboards cannot recognize certain combinations of 3 or
more simultaneously pressed keys. This is an inherent problem
unrelated to Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough Demo.

Advanced Console Commands from the Advanced Options menu:

-By default the advanced console will not be available
unless the option is checked in the "Options" menu. From this
console you will be able to make advanced console commands. The
normal console is active by default and allows you to post
messages to everyone else in multiplayer.

Listen Servers (non-dedicated servers) in Multiplayer

-There is a known issue where the player on the server may
become invisible. This occurs most frequently on a Free For All
type game.

GeForce FX Driver Version 4523

-Fog does not appear correctly with driver version 4523.
Installing a newer or older driver will fix this problem.

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Useful Web Sites
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http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Keep your Windows installation up to date.

http://www.cmohs.org
The official site of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

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