Sniper Elite (TM) [September 2005] ================= This document provides complementary or late-brea ing information to supplement the

Sniper Elite (TM) manual. Copyright (C) 2005 Rebellion. All rights reserved. *********************************************************************** Contents -------1. 2. 3. 4. Minimum and Recommended System requirements Installation Troubleshooting and Known Issues Technical support

*********************************************************************** 1. Minimum and Recommended System requirements: ---------------------------------------------------DirectX 9.0c required (included on the dis ) Minimum System Requirements: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP 1 GHz Pentium CPU or equivalent GeForce 2 32Mb 256 Mb RAM DirectX 8 compatible sound card 4 Gb free hard dis space DVD-ROM drive Recommended System Requirements: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP 1.4 GHz Pentium CPU or equivalent GeForce 4 Ti or better 512 Mb RAM DirectX 8 compatible sound card 4 Gb free hard dis space DVD-ROM drive *********************************************************************** 2. Installation: --------------------Begin by inserting the Sniper Elite DVD into your DVD-ROM drive and wait a few moments until the Sniper Elite title screen appears. If the title screen does not appear, open My Computer from your Windows

Des top or Start Menu and double-clic on the DVD-ROM drive showing the Sniper Elite icon. Double-clic on the Setup program icon to start installing the program. Once the setup program has started, a series of on-screen instructions will guide you through the rest of the installation procedure. *********************************************************************** 3. Troubleshooting: -----------------------In case of audio problems, try reducing the hardware acceleration on your sound card. This can be done by opening the Control Panel from the Start Menu. Double-clic on "Sounds And Audio Devices" (this may be listed as "Sounds and Multimedia" under earlier versions of Windows). Select Audio and clic on the Advanced button in the Sound Playbac section. Clic on performance. Drag the slider called Hardware Acceleration towards the left. Clic on O . Try reducing the acceleration a step at a time until the audio problem disappears. Known Issues: ------------1) Issue: On some systems with Windows XP and a Creative SoundBlaster Live! sound card, there may be occasional sound corruption. The user will hear continuous white noise. Wor around: Set the sound card Hardware Acceleration to "None", as described above. 2) Issue: Connecting to an online game often fails with a Networ Connection Error. Internet gameplay is choppy despite a good internet connection, and the player is occasionally dropped from the game. Sniper Elite uses UDPLite (Protocol 17) on ports 21540 and 54468. These ports may be bloc ed by home routers with a security firewall.

3) Issue: The game crashes or freezes with certain combinations of hardware. Systems that have particular motherboards, with the VIA KT266 chipset and an AMD processor, may crash or freeze when used with certain graphics card s. Wor around: There is currently no complete solution to this problem. However, in some cases changing the graphics settings in the game may resolve the issue.

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around: e sure that these ports are open on any software firewall running your computer, and also ensure that any hardware routers are set allow traffic through these ports.

*********************************************************************** 4. Technical support: -------------------------United Kingdom: www.ubi.com/UK Other territories: Sav@mc2france.com MC2 France - 1 bis, rue du Petit Clamart - 78140 Velizy-Villacoublay, France +33 (0)1 46 01 54 21 www.mc2-europe.com <http://www.mc2-europe.com> ***********************************************************************