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February 28th, 2006

Ice Age 2 The Meltdown Demo

This Manual Addendum file is laid out in the following order:

System Requirements
Installation
Hints
Known Issues


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 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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MINIMUM

* Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor or equivalent AMD(R) Athlon(TM) processor 
* Processor Speed: 1.4 GHz
* Windows(R) XP or 2000 (Windows x64 NOT supported)
* 256 MB RAM
* DirectX(R) 9.0c or higher
* NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R), ATI(R) Radeon(R), or equivalent, DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant,
  64 MB 3D video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting capability and pixel 
  shader support
* DirectX(R) 9.0c (included)
* DirectX(R) 9.0c-compatible sound card and speakers or headphones
* Minimum 310Mb uncompressed hard drive space
* 4x CD-ROM drive
* Microsoft compatible mouse and keyboard

RECOMMENDED

* Windows(R) XP 
* 512 MB RAM or more
* NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R), ATI(R) Radeon(R), or equivalent, DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant,
  128 MB 3D video card with Hardware Transform and Lighting capability and pixel
  shader support  
* 1.7 GHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 or equivalent AMD(R) Athlon(TM) or faster processor
* 24x or faster CD-ROM drive
* DirectX(R) 9.0c-compatible Gamepad controller

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 INSTALLATION
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CD Install
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Place the Ice Age 2 The Meltdown game Disk into your CD-ROM drive. If your computer 
is AutoPlay capable, the game installer menu will automatically appear on the screen.  
Select Install / Uninstall Game from the list to start the installation process.  Follow the 
on-screen instructions to complete installation of the game.

If your system is not AutoPlay capable, open the My Computer icon on your Desktop, 
then double-click the drive letter that represents your CD-ROM drive.  Double-click the 
setup.exe, and continue as set forth in the paragraph above.


Web Download
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Double-click the iceage2_demo_eur.exe.
Select the appropriate language from the Choose Setup Language Dialog Box.

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete installation of the game.

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 HINTS
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* When digging and/or climbing slippery walls, repeatedly tap the action button until the 
task is complete.

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 KNOWN ISSUES
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* Slow Performance - Always be sure to upgrade all hardware drivers before contacting
Technical Support. Check that your system meets minimum hardware requirements.

* Windows XP 64 Bit - Slow performance may be experienced on the Windows XP 64 bit OS
due to lack of support. If such performance issues are experienced a possible solution
is to use the older video card drivers.

* On-Board Video - Slow performance may be experienced while using On-Board video cards.

* Controller Configuration - Some controllers or gamepads may not display the correct
button assignments in-game. While the controller will function correctly (meaning the button
used will perform the action selected) the button number may read different in-game from what
is shown in controller configuration utility.

* Ice Age 2 not shown on Taskbar - In some instances Ice Age 2 will not be shown on taskbar
when it is running. This may occur when Alt-Tab is used to quickly minimize the game and
switch to another application running in the background, or when users try to execute both
Ice Age 2 and another application before Ice Age 2 loads. We recommend closing and not running
any other applications while running Ice Age 2.

* Ice Age 2 may stop functioning when Desktop Resolution is changed while the game is running.
It is recommended that the user does not minimize the game to make system adjustments. Please
Exit out of the application before making any adjustments to your system such as changing desktop
resolution, changing the system volume, etc.

* Widescreen - When running Ice Age 2 in widescreen setting, your image may look distorted.
Ice Age 2 does not support true widescreen modes and will only stretch the image slightly to fill
more screen space on a widescreen monitor. 

* Controllers with left and right analog shoulder buttons may not respond to shoulder button input 
when both buttons are pressed at the same time.  On controllers of this type, We recommend that the 
user avoid mapping both the first person camera and the shoot function to these two buttons.

* On the Xbox 360(TM) USB controller, buttons "LT" and "RT" do not function when pushed down at the
same time.  We recommend that the user avoid mapping the first person camera and the shoot function
to these two buttons.


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