Playboy: The Mansion (TM) README 01/11/05 Version 1.

00 ****************************************************************** WELCOME TO PLAYBOY: THE MANSION Thank you for purchasing Playboy: The Mansion. For more information on the Playboy: The Mansion(TM) game, visit the official website at http://www.playhef.com For more information on the publishers or developers of Playboy: The Mansion(TM) visit: ARUSH Publishing Corp. at http://www.arushgames.com Groove Media, Inc. at http://www.groovegames.com Cyberlore Studios, Inc. at http://www.cyberlore.com For more information on Playboy Enterprises International, Inc., visit Playboy at http://www.playboy.com ****************************************************************** CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Minimum System Requirements Installation Starting Playboy: The Mansion Technical Support Manual Information Custom Content Troubleshooting

1 **************************************************************** MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Windows(r) 98SE/ME/2000/XP Pentium(r) III 800 or 100% compatible 256MB RAM 1.5 Gb HD Space (allows for swap file) 32 MB DirectX(r)/Direct3D and T&L compatible video accelerator card (ATI Radeon 7500 or greater; Nvidia Geforce 2 or greater) DirectX 9 or later DirectX compatible sound card Mouse CD-Rom drive Windows Media 9 Player or later

If you are running Windows(r) 2000 or Windows(r) XP, you must have Administrator rights to properly install and play the game. Playboy: The Mansion is best displayed in these resolutions: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1152 x 864

- 1280 x 1024 - 1600 x 1200 Your device may support additional resolutions. Playboy: The Mansion requires Windows(r) Media 9 Player or later to properly display the in game movies. If the game is having difficulty displaying any movies, please visit the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx for an update. 2 **************************************************************** INSTALLATION Please close all open applications, including virus protection applications. You may turn the virus applications back on after installation is complete. Insert the Playboy: The Mansion disk 1 into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. The Autorun program will appear. Follow the directions shown on your display. If the Autorun program does not appear automatically, click on START from the Windows Taskbar and select RUN. Then type in D:\Autorun into the Run dialog, and click OK or press ENTER. (If your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive is something other than "D:", please insert the correct drive letter.) INSTALLING DirectX If you do not have DirectX 9 or higher, the Playboy: The Mansion installer will ask if you want to install DirectX 9 along with the game. If you choose not to install DirectX 9, you may experience problems with the game. Most users will already have DirectX 9 installed. Alternately, to install, insert disk 1 into your CD or DVD drive. Click the INSTALL DIRECTX 9c button from the launcher menu. Follow the On-screen directions. If autorun is disabled, click START then RUN, and in the box enter: D:\dx9credist\dxsetup and press Enter or click OPEN. If your CD or DVD drive is something other than "D" replace the "D" with the correct drive letter.) UNINSTALLING Playboy: The Mansion You can uninstall the game from the shortcut in the Playboy: The Mansion program group, or you can go to START / CONTROL PANEL / ADD-REMOVE PROGRAMS and select Playboy: The Mansion from the list. 3 **************************************************************** STARTING Playboy: The Mansion

Insert the Playboy: The Mansion disc 1 in your drive. If Autorun is enabled, click on the Play Playboy: The Mansion button. If Autorun is disabled, double click on the Playboy - The Mansion shortcut on your desktop, or: Click START, then All Programs (or Programs) / Playboy - The Mansion / Playboy - The Mansion. 4 **************************************************************** TECHNICAL SUPPORT: For the latest information on Playboy: The Mansion (TM), please visit: http://www.playhef.com You can obtain the latest support information and technical assistance from the Support section of the http://www.playhef.com website. You can contact Technical Support via email from the Technical Support website, or you can email directly to support@playhef.com Please see the Trouble Shooting section below for some specific support and trouble shooting information. 5 **************************************************************** MANUAL Please refer to the printed manual that came with your game. It provides important information that will help you enjoy building and running your mansion. It will walk you through each User Interface menu, and it will also give details on how to throw the best parties and have the best time possible. 6 **************************************************************** CUSTOM CONTENT CUSTOM TEXTURES You can add your own custom textures to Playboy: The Mansion(TM). Please visit http://www.playhef.com to learn more and to download a tutorial on how to make the content yourself. If you have installed the North American version of Playboy: The Mansion(TM), then the tutorial can be found in the Playboy_Texture_Tutorial folder in your Playboy: The Mansion directory. Open "Start.html" to begin. CUSTOM MUSIC Adding your own custom music to the game: - Make a new folder in Playboy: The Mansion s music directory (/data/PC/music). - The name of your folder will be the name of your station in game.

- Copy your MP3s or shortcuts to your MP3s into that directory. - MP3s, or shortcuts, should only be in the root level of this folder. The game will not read into subdirectories. - Note: The more MP3s, the slower your start up time will be. 7 **************************************************************** TROUBLE SHOOTING INSTALLATION If you are using Windows XP and have autorun enabled, you may experience an autorun issue during installation. When you are prompted to insert disc 2, Windows Explorer may auto-detect a new CD and open a window over the Installation window. Simply close the Explorer window and proceed with the installation of Playboy: The Mansion.

WINDOWS 2000 / nForce 2 chipset USERS: There is a known incompatibility with our copy protection method and motherboards with the nForce 2 chipset under Windows 2000. To fix this, please visit www.nvidia.com website and download an updated nForce 2 chipset driver for W2K or XP. Playboy: The Mansion(TM) should now work properly. VIDEO RESOLUTION ISSUES IMPORTANT NOTE: You should not adjust your in-game screen resolution to a setting beyond what your monitor can support. You should consult your monitor's documentation in order to learn about supported resolutions. DIRECTX ISSUES Authenticated Drivers If your drivers are authenticated by Microsoft, then DX9 may try to verify if they have expired by connecting to the following URL crl.Microsoft.com. This is a Microsoft Certification check for expiration of Certificate site. This could be triggered when the game is run, as it interfaces with the video and sound drivers installed in Windows. This feature of Windows can be turned off in the following way: Start Internet explorer and click... Tools | Internet Options Click the ADVANCED TAB, then scroll down to Security: UNCHECK the boxes that say "CHECK FOR PUBLISHERS CERTIFICATE REVOCATION" and "CHECK FOR SERVERS CERTIFICATE REVOCATION(requires restart)". This stops Windows from trying the verify if a certificated drivers certificate has expired or not.

This does not affect how the game works and Firewall users can halt the connection and the game will load as normal.

VIDEO & SOUND ERRORS The most common errors are related to video & sound card drivers. This game requires DirectX 9 or later. If your drivers are not DirectX certified, please download or obtain the latest drivers from your card manufacturer. This is the number one problem people have with DirectX games. Please check for recent DirectX updates. This will most likely solve your problem. After you have updated your drivers, you should reinstall DirectX (from whatever folder you downloaded it to) or from the Playboy: The Mansion CD disk 1) and restart Windows. If you are having sound or video problems, you should try reinstalling DirectX. MOVIE ERRORS Playboy: The Mansion requires Windows(r) Media 9 Player or later to properly display the in game movies. If the game is having difficulty displaying any movies, please visit the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx for an update. QUESTION & ANSWER Q: How do I get DirectX? A: DirectX is most likely already installed on your computer, but there may be a more up to date version available. Version 9 is available on this disk. DirectX is a free download from Microsoft. We recommend getting the most up to date version, as it will most likely make all your games perform better. You can get the latest version from their website at: www.microsoft.com/directx/ Q: How do I determine if my video card is DirectX compatible? A: For DirectX diagnosing tools, open Windows Explorer and go to the C:\Program Files\DirectX\Setup\ directory. Run the program named Dxdiag.exe. This will give you detailed information for all your drivers and other DirectX components. This will also help tech support if you should need to call them. Q: How do I update my video drivers? A: If you already know what card you have, go to that manufacturer's web site and follow their instructions for downloading and updating your driver. If you do not know what video card you re using, look at the documentation that came with your computer / video card purchase or you can find out by looking at your computer's System Properties. If you do not know what card you have, follow the instructions below. Your System Properties can be viewed by right clicking on the My Computer

icon on your desktop, selecting Properties, then selecting the Device Manager tab. For Windows XP, click Start/ Control Panel/ System Properties/ then the Hardware Tab, and then Device Manager. You will see a monitor icon with the text Display Adapters next to it. Left click on the + and you should see what driver you are currently using. Click on it and then click the Properties button. That should tell you the manufacturer. You must now go to the manufacturer web site to obtain the free driver upgrade. The drivers are usually located in the Support section of their site. Other areas to look are Downloads, Drivers, Files, Upgrades, Technical Support or User Support. Q: The game is running choppy or slow. A: Make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements. You should be running the latest version of DirectX and have updated drivers for your video card. You may also want to turn down the settings, or decrease the Resolution in the Options Menu. Q: I am not seeing any textures on objects. I am seeing white or blue textures, or the textures don t look right. A: This is a common problem people encounter when they are using old video drivers. Please update your video drivers as mentioned above. Q: I am not hearing any sound or the sounds are broken up. A: Be sure you have updated the drivers on your sound card and have the latest version of DirectX installed. Q: A message keeps telling me to insert the correct CD and retry. What is wrong? A: You may have CloneCD or another similar type of CD image application running. Close down all other applications, especially any that try to mimic a CD-ROM or CR-ROM drive. Q: Where are the game preferences, such as the screen resolution stored? I want to reset the preferences back to the defaults. A: Open an Explorer window, and find the installation directory for Playboy: The Mansion. The file is named usrprefs.xml. You can delete this file and the game will revert to its default values. Optimizing your hard drive: Run SCANDISK and then DEFRAG your hard drive. There is a good potential for making games run faster and better if your system is optimized. ****************************************************************** Playboy: The Mansion 2005 Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. Game and Software 2005 ARUSH Publishing Corporation and Groove Media Inc. Portions of this software are included under license. 2004

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