Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo Includes one map from the upcoming 3D vehicle-shooter set on Wake Island. Take control of multiple Classes and Vehicles such as tanks, dive-bombers, submarines and aircraft carriers as you fight in World War II against other players online.

	Author:	EA GAMES
	Date Added:	16 Aug 2002, 3:23 p.m.
	Downloads:	138689
	File Size:	130.19 MB (136512494 bytes)
	Download Time:	Approx. 1 hour at 256 kbit/s

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Minimum:
500 MHz CPU
128 Megabytes of RAM
3D accelerated 32 MB video card or equivalent with HW-T&L
(Hardware Transform & Lightning) and 24-bit z-buffer
160 MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games
(additional space required for Windows swap-file and
DirectX 8.1 installation)
16X Speed CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
DirectX 8 Compatible Sound Card
MS compatible mouse
Keyboard

Recommended:
800 MHz CPU
256 Megabytes of RAM
3D accelerated 32 MB video card or equivalent with HW-T&L
(Hardware Transform & Lightning) and 24-bit z-buffer
160 MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games
(additional space required for Windows swap-file and
DirectX 8.1 installation)
16X Speed CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
DirectX 8 Compatible Sound Card
MS compatible mouse
Keyboard

Required Operating Systems:
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP or Windows 2000
Note that Windows 95 is not supported.

32 MB video cards with HW-T&L will be supported and should work.
If you do have such a card and experience problems please
report type of card and drivers used.

These are known to have issues:

Hercules Prophet FDX 8500 LE AGP 64MB ATI Radeon 8500

Nvidia GeForce2 Integrated GPU AGP 32MB Nvidia nForce
(nForce)

ATI Radeons
- Some cards in the Radeon family may have graphical issues such
as texture flicker and some drop-out. By the time you read this
the latest drivers form ATI should be available to address these
issues.

SETTING 16-bit
- Setting the color depth to 16 bits will give you more flickering
(z-buffer errors).

- When playing the game with 16-bit you might experience
flickering on the buildings if LIGHTMAPS under video options
is turned on.

- VIDEO SETTINGS
Read the section Improving Gameplay Performance below to help
minimize some of the above video card issues.

Cards that are not HW-T&L compatible will not be supported!

Known soundcard issues:

AOpen AW320 PCI Audio PCI Windows 2000
All sounds (vehicle, gun, etc.) cut in and out while in a game.
The computer will also randomly briefly flash a blue screen error
message right before the computer re-boots while in a game.

Aureal Vortex PCI Windows XP
Aureal Vortex 2 PCI Windows XP
Aztech A3D PCI Windows XP
Diamond Monster Sound II MX300 PCI Windows XP
Turtle Beach Montego A3D Xstream PCI Windows XP
Turtle Beach Montego II PCI Windows XP
Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla PCI Windows XP

The seven cards above all experience the following:
Vehicle sounds are distorted. This includes tanks, jeeps, AA-
guns, etc. Voices play too fast.

Yamaha Xwave-192 PCI
Sounds cut in and out intermittently during gameplay. Engines will
go quiet off and on.

Avance AC97 PCI
Voices and soundfx will be sped up.
This is known as the 'chipmunk effect'.

Hard Drive Space

160 MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games
(additional space required for DirectX 8.1 installation)

In addition to the installed game, Windows will require additional
free hard drive space for its operating system (virtual memory).

If you encounter the following message in an error dialog:

"Ran out of virtual memory"

Free up some more hard drive space.

Installing DirectX 8.1

DirectX 8.1

Make sure that you have DirectX 8.1 installed on your system.
Latest version of DirectX can be downloaded from:
www.microsoft.com\directx
Previous versions of DirectX are not fully supported.

Installation Instructions

To install the Battlefield 1942 demo:
1) Double mouse-click "Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo" executable.
2) Follow the instructions that appear to install the demo.

Uninstalling Battlefield 1942 Demo

Windows 98, and ME
To uninstall the Battlefield 1942 demo:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Settings".
3) Choose "Control Panel".
4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs"
5) Highlight "Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo" and click the
"Add/Remove..." button in the lower right.
6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo.

Windows 2000
To uninstall the Battlefield 1942 demo:
1) Bring up your Start Menu.
2) Choose "Settings".
3) Choose "Control Panel".
4) Choose "Add/Remove Programs"
5) Highlight "Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo" and click the
"Change/Remove" button below its name.
6) Follow the instructions that appear, to uninstall the demo.