User Guide

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I am having trouble using my joystick.
• Your joystick may be set to “auto fire.” If this is the case, the buttons may not function
as you expect. To correct the problem, turn auto fire off. If your joystick doesn’t allow
you to turn auto fire off, unplug it and play with a mouse or use the keyboard controls.
•
In the event that you experience any joystick calibration problems, be sure that you don’t
have more than one active gameport on your system at any time, as they will conflict with
Strike Commander’s calibration routine and will affect game performance. This includes
gameports present on sound cards, gamecards or I/O cards. You may need to consult the
documentation for your system, sound card and game card to resolve any problems.
• If you are using a multi-speed gamecard, be sure that you have performed the software
or speed dials tests for your particular gamecard. If you continue to have problems, try
adjusting the speed-dial or numeric software settings a little higher or lower than normal.
On cards like the Gravis Eliminator game card, we found settings between 4.0 and 5.5 to
be well suited for Strike Commander. For other cards, please check your game card
documentation to configure the card for different speed settings. If the problem persists,
you may have a defective joystick or gameport.
Why does my computer lock up or give me “run time” errors?
On some machines, the CD-ROM drive may be daisy-chained with several other drives
on a cable from the SCSI controller card. Because this game needs to have simultaneous
access to both the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive, it cannot run on a CD drive that is
daisy-chained with other drives. We strongly recommend that Strike be installed to a
drive that is not on the same cable as your CD-ROM drive.
I’ve got 16 (or more) megs of RAM and a digitized sound card, so I shouldn’t be
having any problems, but speech in the game is full of static.
Because direct memory access (DMA) will not work with memory addresses above 16
megabytes, the digitized speech of Strike Commander may not work correctly on
machines with large amounts of memory. If you hear static in the game when speech
would be more appropriate, then this problem could be occurring.
The best solution is to remove your memory manager and let the game supply the high
memory using its own memory manager.
See Optimizing Your System (pp. 6-9) for more details on memory configuration.
I’ve got a digital sound card, and I’ve turned on
DIGITAL FX, but I still sometimes get
undigitized sound effects.
With
DIGITAL FX turned on, you may run into instances where you will get non-digitized
sound effects. This will happen if a digital effect is supposed to be played at the same
time as another digital effect. The chip used by most sound cards to produce digitized
sound and effects can only play one digitized effect at a time.
When I try to start a new game, it crashes to DOS and gives me Error Code
#1910
or #1941.
This is caused by a bad installation or a corrupted file on the original installation. To
determine which is the case, boot from a clean configuration that does not load other
conflicting device drivers such as a disk cache. See Optimizing Your System
(pp. 6-9) for more information on the proper configuration. Next, delete all files from the
Strike Commander directory (default: C:\SC). Finally, re-install Strike Commander and
Tactical Operations (while booted from the clean configuration).