"Project IGI2: Covert Strike"

23/01/03
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INSTALLING THE GAME

RUNNING THE GAME
STARTING AND JOINING A MULTIPLAYER GAME
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
PERFORMANCE TWEAKS
KNOWN ISSUES

I.
INSTALLING THE GAME:
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NOTE: Avoid minimising the installer during install.
Insert Disc 1 into your CD/DVD drive. If you have Autorun enabled the game shoul
d start installing immediately. If Autorun is disabled, browse to the CD and dou
ble-click on 'setup.exe'.
You will be prompted for your choice of language for the installer program - sel
ect it from the drop-down list.
You will then be asked to enter the directory you wish to install the game to.
After a few minutes you will then be asked to insert Disc 2 to continue the inst
all. Swap Disc 1 for Disc 2 and select 'OK'.

II.
RUNNING THE GAME:
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After you install "Project IGI2: Covert Strike" there will be an "IGI 2" shortcu
t on your desktop. Double-click this to start the game.
Alternatively you can start the game by going to: Start Menu -> Programs -> Code
masters -> IGI 2 -> Play IGI 2.

III.
STARTING AND JOINING A MULTIPLAYER GAME:
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1. Joining a Multiplayer game:
------------------------------ Start the game and select 'Multiplayer'.
- Then choose 'Join Game' and click on 'SEARCH LAN' to find all available games
on a LAN or 'SEARCH INTERNET' to find all available servers online. For the latt
er option you need to be already connected to the internet.
- On this screen you can enter a name for yourself and an IP address of a server
if you know one.
- Choose the game you wish to join, using the option at the top of the list to s
ort by number of players, ping and name, and then click 'JOIN'.
- The game will then load to the 'Select Team' screen.
2. Starting a Multiplayer game:
------------------------------- Start the game and select 'Multiplayer'. Then choose 'Start Server'.

- Enter your name and the server name at the top of the screen.
- Click on 'Map List' to choose the map(s) you wish to play, selecting 'OK' when
you're finished.
- You can also set the maximum number of players you wish to allow on the server
, the number of spectators, the port number, whether weapons dropped by enemies
will remain to be picked up, whether healthpacks are allowed, or whether you wis
h to start this game as a dedicated server. NOTE: if you choose this final optio
n you will not be able to play the game on this PC. See below for information on
Dedicated Servers.
- Click 'OK' to start the game.
- The game will then load to the 'Select Team' screen.
3. Setting up a dedicated server for a Multiplayer game:
-------------------------------------------------------- Create a shortcut to 'igi2.exe', right-click on it and select 'Properties' and
add 'window quiet serverdedicated port26001 level02' after '...igi2.exe' in the
'Target:' box. Use this shortcut to run a dedicated server. It will display as
a black window which means the server is running. The list of multiplayer maps i
s:
level01
level02
level03
level04
level05

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Redstone
Forestraid
Sandstorm
Timberland
Chinese Temple

The available port numbers are port26001 -> port26014

IV.
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:
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(i) Minimum Requirements
(ii) Recommended Requirements
(iii) Supported Graphics Cards
(i) Minimum Requirements
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
DirectX 8.1
Pentium III or Athlon at 700Mhz
128Mb RAM
Supported 32Mb Graphics Card
DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card
8x CD-ROM
1.9Gb Hard Disk Space
(1.4Gb for game, 500Mb free after installation)
(ii) Recommended Requirements
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
DirectX 8.1
Pentium 3/4 or Athlon at 1.2Ghz
512Mb RAM
Supported 64Mb Graphics Card
DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

32x CD-ROM
1.9Gb Hard Disk Space
(1.4Gb for game, 500Mb free after installation)
(iii) Supported Graphics Cards
3dfx Voodoo 4/5
ATI Radeon, Radeon 7xxx/8xxx/9xxx
Matrox G400, G450, G550, Parhelia
Nvidia Riva TNT 2, GeForce 256/2/3/4
SiS Xabre

V.
PERFORMANCE TWEAKS:
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If you are having problems getting IGI2 to run well on your machine, please read
on.
In the graphics settings window, there are quite a few options. The list below i
s split into three sections, processor, GFX card and RAM. Whichever area of your
system is the lowest / oldest out of these, try the options below for that part
of your hardware. Don't do them all at once, tune them one at a time.
Note that resolution changes make very little difference at all for IGI2 unless
you have a really old graphics card.
---------------------------------Processor - if your processor is 1GHz or below, make some changes to these setti
ngs:
1. Terain detail slider - this is very expensive. Note dropping the terrain slid
er will cause the terrain to morph (also, note that you can increase this to max
to cure terrain warping if you have a very good machine (2GHz or above)).
2. All these are equally important - Lens Flares, Bullet Decals, Wind on Trees.
Turn them off 1 by 1, keeping the one you prefer the most till last.
3. Water detail - only change this if your GFX card doesn't support hardware ver
tex shaders. Anything GF3 or higher that is NOT an MX card, and anything Radeon
8500 above will support this.
4. High quality forests - this will have a very big impact on improving your pro
cessor speed, but I list it as no. 4 as it also makes the game look a lot worse.
If you don't mind the look of the low quality forests, this should help process
or usage quite a bit.
5. Model detail - careful with this one, again can make the game look bad if dro
pped.
--------------------------------------GFX card
1. Texture filtering - make sure this is not set to Anisotropic, very few cards

can handle this. Bilinear is the lowest resource hit, but there's not too much d
ifference between bilinear and trilinear unless you have a really old card.
2. Full screen antialiasing may also produce a big performance hit. Make sure to
turn it off if you don't have one of latest DirectX8 video cards with at least
64Mb of video RAM.
3. Disable Texture Compression - set this to 'No' to improve performance (this i
s very, very important if you have a 32MB GFX card).
4. Texture detail
5. Stencil shadows
6. High quality forests (this may have a bigger effect on performance than chang
ing stencil shadows, but the hit on visuals is worse, so it is listed lower).
7. Water detail
8. Lens flares
-------------------------------------RAM
1. Texture compression
2. Texture detail
--------------------------------------If these changes don't help your performance of IGI2 or you are having other pro
blems please visit the 'Problem Solving' forum at http://community.codemasters.c
om/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=4

VI.
KNOWN ISSUES:
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1. Terrain morphs as the player moves around/distant players and AI seem to be w
alking in the air
DESCRIPTION:
As the player walks around they see the landscape stretching and
growing in the distance.
SOLUTION:
Increase the terrain detail level by using Terrain Detail slider
in the Graphics Configuration menu. (Available only when Graphics Detail is in
Custom position)
2. ATi Radeon texture flickering issues
DESCRIPTION:
Game displays graphical distortion with Force Software Vertex Pr
ocessing set to YES. There may also be graphical issues with Radeon 7200/7500/85
00/9000 cards.
SOLUTION:

Graphical options must have Force Software Vertex Processing to

YES in order to run the game with this card with the latest drivers. Unfortunate
ly this causes graphical errors. This is a driver issue to be fixed by ATi. For
owners of Radeon 8500, 9000 it is recommended to roll back to Catalyst 02.3 driv
ers (see p.7) and set Force Software Vertex Processing set to NO.
3. GeForce3/4, Radeon 9700 plain ground texture if Force Software Vertex Process
ing 'ON'
DESCRIPTION:
If Force Software Vertex Processing is set to ON with the above
cards, all ground textures disappear
SOLUTION:

Set this option to OFF

4. Matrox Parhelia graphics problems if Force Software Vertex Processing 'ON'

DESCRIPTION:
There are black jagged texture corruptions if Force Software Ver
tex Processing is set to ON with the above card.
SOLUTION:

Set the option to OFF.

5. GeForce4 Ti 4600 0x0x0 resolution

DESCRIPTION:
is card

A resolution of 0x0x0 may appear in the graphics settings for th

SOLUTION:

Do not use this resolution.

6. Uninstaller doesn't remove entire game

DECRIPTION:
When the game uninstalled, there are some files left behind in t
he IGI2 directory
SOLUTION:

Delete the files manually, they are no longer needed.

7. Game locks up/reboots PC on loading a level with Radeon cards

DESCRIPTION:
Game locks up or reboots machine immediately after a level is lo
aded when using ATI Radeon 8500, 9000.
SOLUTION:
Roll back to 2.3 Catalyst drivers (6.13.10.6166). Those can be f
ound at http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/radeonwinxppreviousdrivers.html f
or Windows XP/2000 and at http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/radeonwinmeprev
iousdrivers.html for Windows ME.
If it is not possible, enable "Force Software Vertex Processing" in the Graphics
Configuration menu.
8. Terrain and water have wrong colours or texture flickering
DESCRIPTION:
Terrain or water have incorrect colours or texture flicking on n
Vidia GForce3 or GForce4 Ti.
SOLUTION:
Make sure that "Force Software Vertex Processing" option in the
advanced options menu is unchecked.

9. Slow framerate on Voodoo 5

DESCRIPTION:
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Choppy framerate, big slowdowns when running the game on Voodoo5

SOLUTION:
Set "Disable texture compression" option in the advanced options
to "No". Pull "Texture detail" slider menu to the left in order to decrease tex
ture resolution.
10. Terrain texture flickering, may appear when using different video cards.
DESCRIPTION:
There are black jagged texture corruptions looking like differen
t layers of terrain textures seep through each other.
SOLUTION:
Add 'zbias' or 'zbias2' to the command line option for IGI2 e.g.
- Create a shortcut to 'igi2.exe', right-click on it and select 'Properties' an
d add "zbias" or "zbias2" (without the inverted commas) after '...igi2.exe' in t
he 'Target:' box. Now run the game using this shortcut.
11. Can't add more than 16 player profiles
DESCRIPTION:
When you try to add another player profile there is a beep, but
nothing happens.
SOLUTION:
You already have 16 profiles. This is the maximum you can have.
To create new ones you must delete some of the others first.
12. Can't add a player profile when there are less than 16 profiles created
DESCRIPTION:
If you try to add another player profile when there are less tha
n 16 already created there is a beep, but nothing happens.
SOLUTION:
You are trying to create a profile with a player name that is al
ready used. All player profile names must be unique.
(c) 2003 Innerloop Studios and The Codemasters Software Company Limited ("Codema
sters"). All rights reserved. "Codemasters"(r) is a registered trademark owned b
y Codemasters. "Covert Strike"(TM) and "GENIUS AT PLAY"(TM) are trademarks of C
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