Sanity: Aiken's Artifact from Fox Interactive and Monolith Productions
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1.0/US

Thank you for purchasing Sanity: Aiken's Artifact.  This file contains
last-minute instructions, troubleshooting tips, and contact information.
If you have any questions, please check to see if they are addressed
here before contacting Fox Interactive.


MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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Windows® 95 / 98 / 2000 with DirectX 7.0a

 - Pentium® II 300MHz processor, or 100% compatible (450MHz recommended)
 - 64Mb RAM (96Mb recommended)
 - 4x speed CD-ROM (8x recommended)
 - 400Mb free hard drive space
 - DirectSound compatible 16-bit sound card
 - Windows® 95 / 98 / 2000 compatible two-button mouse
 - DirectX 7 compatible 3D card with hardware acceleration and 8Mb RAM (16Mb recommended)
 - Mouse and U.S. keyboard


INSTALLATION TIPS:
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- Make sure you have sufficient free hard drive space for the installation.
  Microsoft recommends that you have at least 23 Mb free hard drive space
  to allow for the correct operation of Windows Virtual Memory.

- Restart the system before installing Sanity. It is always a good idea to
  restart your system before installing any software. This can refresh the
  system memory and eliminate unnecessary problems that may appear during
  the installation.

- The game requires DirectX 7.0a (or later) to be installed - you will be
  asked to install or upgrade DirectX during game installation. The latest
  release of DirectX may be downloaded from:

  http://www.microsoft.com/directx


CONTROLS SUMMARY:
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See the Sanity manual for complete information on the controls.

MOUSE:

  Right mouse button = move
  Left mouse button = select/action

MENU KEYS:

  Esc: Return to previous menu
  Up and Down Arrows: Change selection
  Enter: Make selection

HOTKEYS:

  ESC = menu
  PAUSE = pause game
  F1 = Help screen
  F2 = Save Game
  F3 = Load Game
  F5 = Quick save
  F8 = Quick load
  F12 = screenshot
  1-0 = select Talent in slot 1-10
  ALT + 1-0 = select Talent group 1-10
  CTRL + 1-0 = fire Talent in slot 1-10
  SHIFT + move keys = walk
  ENTER = chat
  TAB = multiplayer scores ("frag table")

MAPPABLE HOTKEY DEFAULTS:

  Left Arrow = move left
  Right Arrow = move right
  Up Arrow = move up
  Down Arrow = move down
  W = zoom out
  S = zoom in
  A = rotate camera right
  D = rotate camera left
  B = badge
  P = phone
  G = gun
  E = restore camera defaults
  Z = mouse swivel camera
  T = talk
  M = master deck
  Q = move camera behind player
  C = toggle camera mode
  Spacebar = advance dialogue


NETWORK PLAY:
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Go into the "Multiplayer" menu to host or join a network game.
Sanity supports both LAN and Internet play with the standard TCP/IP
protocol.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

 If you are not connected to the Internet, you MUST choose
 "Private TCP/IP Game" when hosting a multiplayer game.  Otherwise
 you will experience long delays as your computer tries to access the
 Internet.

Internet Play:

 Make sure that you have an active TCP/IP Internet connection. Some
 firewalls may block access to Sanity multiplayer games--if you can
 connect to web pages but not to Sanity's multiplayer service, check with
 your service provider.

 You can choose your multiplayer "Update Rate" by clicking the Multiplayer
 button on the Sanity launcher or by selecting Multiplayer from the game's
 Main Menu. It is very important that you choose the update rate that best
 matches your Internet connection speed. Dialup modem users should choose
 the "28.8 kbps" or "56 kbps" settings, depending on your modem speed.
 ISDN and low-bandwidth DSL users will be  best served with the "ISDN"
 setting. High-bandwidth DSL, cable and users  on a direct T1 or faster
 Internet connection should experience best  performance with the "T1 or
 faster" setting.

 *Advanced tip: you can set a "custom" Update Rate setting by editing the
 "UpdateRate" value in the autoexec.cfg file found in the game's "Lithtech"
 folder. For reference, "28.8 kbps" uses updaterate 3, "T1 or faster"
 uses updaterate 20. Higher values require more bandwidth. You can also
 change the Update Rate during game play by toggling down the game console
 with the ~ key and entering "updaterate x" where X is the number of your
 desired setting. Only advanced users should attempt these modifications
 as they can potentially corrupt your installation of the game.

 You may come across players or servers on the Internet that have new
 Talents. See the web site at www.sanitygame.com for more information on
 finding and using these Talents.

Local Area Network (LAN) Play

 LAN play is identical to Internet play in most respects. However, if you
 wish to host on a LAN that does not have an active Internet connection
 you must select the "Private TCP/IP game" radio button in the server setup
 interface. Join the game by using the "Join Specific TCP/IP Address"
 option on the Multiplayer menu--in most cases you can just leave the field
 blank without having to enter the IP address of the host and Sanity will
 automatically find the game.

Dedicated Server

 You can run a dedicated server on the Internet, or on your local LAN.
 Ideally, the hosting system will meet the minimum system spec for processor
 speed and RAM: P2 300 w/ 64MB. Players will experience smoother gameplay on
 your server if it has more of both of these things. A high-bandwidth Internet
 connection (ISDN or faster) is also highly desirable.

 Run the dedicated server either by clicking the Stand-Alone server icon in
 your start menu, or by double-clicking the sanityserv.exe in your
 Sanity\lithtech folder. You will go through the normal multiplayer setup
 windows. When you get to the last window and hit the Finish button there
 will be a pause for loading and then the dedicated server window will appear.
 This window has several useful controls:

 Server time display
   The upper left section of the server interface shows how long the server
   has been running, how long the current map has been running and how soon
   it will switch to the next map, if you specified a time limit.

 Map list and switching functions
   The maps you chose to run are listed in order in the upper right hand
   corner, listed in order they will be run from top to bottom. The currently
   hosted map has a black disc next to it. To switch to the next map in the
   list without having to wait for the specified time or frag limit to be met,
   click the Next Level button. To switch to any other map in the list, click
   the map name and then click the Select Level button.

 Client list and boot function
   The list of currently connected players (clients) appears in the lower left
   corner. The player's score appears to the right of their name. To force a
   client to leave the server immediately, click on their name and then click
   the "Boot" button below.

 Console display window and command line interface
   A scrolling display of the server's internal commands and status appears in
   the lower right corner. Chat messages from players will also appear here. To
   send players messages from the command line interface at the bottom, precede
   the message with "say" and enclose the message in quotes. For instance if you
   entered

   say "hello everyone!"

   all clients would see the message "hello everyone!" from "Host". Advanced users
   can enter Lithtech console commands in this command line. To clear the display
   entirely, click the Clear button.

 To shut the server down click the X button in the upper right corner of the
 window. You will be prompted for confirmation.

Custom Maps

 You may find custom multiplayer maps that did not ship with Sanity. To play with
 these levels, which will have a ".dat" extension on the filename, you must place
 them in a "sanity\worlds\multi" folder in your Sanity game directory. So if, for
 instance, you have Sanity installed to the default directory
   C:\Program Files\Fox\Sanity
 you will need to place the .dat files in
   C:\Program Files\Fox\Sanity\sanity\worlds\multi
 Once the maps are placed correctly you will be able to host and join games with
 them as you would with the standard retail maps.

* SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT HOSTING A MULTIPLAYER GAME OF SANITY:
Please note, when you host a Multiplayer server (Stand-alone or otherwise) and
players join your server with "new Talents" that your server does not know about,
all clients on your server will experience some "minor lag" while the "new
Talents" are being processed by your server.  Once your server has processed the
"new Talents," nobody will experience this lag again until the server is shut down
or another client joins with more "new Talents" that your server doesn't have.
Because of this, it is highly recommended that server operaters obtain and acquire
the latest Talents. If you don't have all the latest Talents but want to prevent
the lag from new Talents, checking "Use Talent Restrictions" and "Don't allow
unknown Talents" boxes in the server setup will prevent players from bringing in
Talents you do not have.


COMPATIBILITY NOTES:
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Sanity is designed to function with Windows 95/98/2000 compatible
graphics cards and sound cards. The drivers for these various devices
are provided by Windows itself, or the respective manufacturers, and
may occasionally contain bugs or otherwise cause incompatibilities
beyond our control.

If you experience any problems, it is always recommended that you obtain
up-to-date drivers, which will often remedy the problem. Almost every
vendor makes their drivers available on their web site. If you are unsure
of a web site URL for a particular hardware vendor, you can try accessing
one of the popular Windows software update sites such as:

http://www.windrivers.com


OPERATING SYSTEMS:

Non-English versions of Windows:
  Users with certain non-U.S. versions of Windows will have to remap their
  controls before playing Sanity. You will get a dialogue box explaining
  this when you run the game for the first time. Go to the Options menu,
  select Controls, and configure the controls to the desired keyboard and
  mouse functions.

Windows 2000:
  A bug in Microsoft's DirectInput may cause mouse button input to
  "stick" when multiple buttons are pressed, so the character may
  continue running even after user releases the run button. Microsoft
  has announced they will address this bug in DirectX 8. See their
  official DirectX site www.microsoft.com/directx for more information.

Windows 95:
  The mouse wheel does not scroll through Talents in Windows 95.


GRAPHICS:

- Sanity detects multiple graphics cards and the resolution settings they are
  capable of displaying. Although the user can select the highest resolution
  setting possible, the game may not be able to run due to memory limitations
  on the graphics card. To fix this, simply select the next resolution down
  until you find one which will work.

- If you have a version of DirectX later than 7.0 installed on your PC,
  ensure that the drivers are certified by the graphics card manufacturer
  as compatible with the installed version of DirectX.

- Users of graphics cards with G400 chipsets may experience erratic display
  of the game's fog effect although this does not prevent playing the game.
  Future releases of drivers may resolve this issue. Fog also does not render
  on a TNT2 under Windows 2000 with nVidia's 5.22 reference drivers. Check
  the appropriate web sites listed below for updates.

- If you experience any graphical problems, please ensure that you have the
  latest available drivers for your 3D graphics card. These can be found at
  the card manufacturer's web site.  The most common sites are:

    ATI	(Rage)			http://www.atitech.com
    Matrox (G200, G400)		http://www.matrox.com
    Nvidia (Riva, GeForce)  	http://www.nvidia.com
    S3 (Savage)			http://www.s3.com
    3Dfx (Voodoo)		http://www.3dfx.com
    Creative Labs		http://www.creative.com
    Diamond Multimedia (Viper)	http://www.diamondmm.com
    STB				http://www.stb.com/products
    Guillemot			http://www.guillemot.com

- If you find your graphics running slowly, select a lower video
  resolution and/or detail setting. This can be done in the Graphics
  options screen, to get there from the Main Menu select Options and
  then Graphics.

- Sanity takes place at night.  Some areas are quite dark - if you are having
  trouble seeing things generally, you may find a Gamma Correction slider
  included in your graphics card's display software.  Please refer to the
  graphics card manual for further instructions.

- Users with 3dfx video cards may find that Sanity's fog effect is too dark.
  You can disable fog with a setting in the Display Options menu.


MOUSE:

- In the Mouse options screen accessed by selecting Options from the Main
  Menu, you can enable the hardware mouse cursor for faster mouse performance
  on some systems. Please note, not all video cards support hardware cursors.


KEYBOARD:

- Users with foreign (non-U.S.) keyboards may experience difficulty using and
  configuring keyboard commands in Sanity. This is due to the way in which
  DirectInput reads keyboard input. Localized versions of Sanity will enable
  non-U.S. keyboards to work correctly for specific languages.


ADVISORIES:
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- When pressing ALT+TAB, CTRL+ESC and/or the Windows Key on keyboards, Sanity
  will minimize or switch tasks. Problems may occur when minimizing games in
  mid-level so this is not recommended. If you absolutely must task-switch
  during gameplay we advise that you first go into the main menu screen.


TROUBLESHOOTING:
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MEMORY TIPS:

- In the System Control Panel, let Windows manage the Virtual Memory
  settings, or choose the recommended settings.

- Close any other applications that may be running, including anti-virus
  software, screen savers, and other startup programs. The more free RAM.
  the better.

- Closing other running applications will help prevent Windows from
  accessing the hard drive Virtual Memory swap file, and avoid possible
  conflicts from other programs which can affect the speed of Sanity.

- Even if you close all running applications, there may be a number of other
  tasks running in the background. Some of these are displayed as icons in
  the System Tray on the Windows Taskbar, and others are not immediately
  obvious.

- If, after trying the above suggestions you are still experiencing
  performance problems, you can experiment with closing these tasks.
  However, it is possible that closing some of them could cause your
  computer to crash, and require restarting.

  You can usually close most System Tray tasks by right clicking or left
  clicking on their Tray icon, and then selecting Close, Exit, Quit or
  Suspend (depending upon the task).

  After this, to see what 'hidden' tasks are still running, from the
  Windows desktop, carefully press the CTRL, ALT and DEL keys together
  ONCE.  This will display a list of active tasks.  You can free up system
  resources by closing these one at a time by clicking on a task and then
  selecting the 'End Task' button.  On most systems, you will be able to
  close almost all tasks except 'Explorer' (which you should leave running).

BACKGROUND APPLICATIONS:

- We recommend that you shut down any other applications that may be running
  before you start Sanity. Be aware that some background applications,
  especially schedulers, appointment books and e-mail programs can produce
  system notifications that may interfere with the gameplay. System
  notifications may cause the game to minimize itself, and the Windows
  desktop to be displayed.

CD-ROM:

- Sanity constantly accesses the CD-ROM drive during play.  The faster your
  CD-ROM drive, the better performance may be.  You can often increase
  performance by increasing the CD cache size.  However, increasing the
  cache size more than 1 or 2Mb may actually slow performance, so be careful.

  In the Windows 95/98 System Control Panel - Performance tab, select the File
  System Properties button, and then the CD-ROM tab.  Set the CD-ROM
  supplemental cache size anywhere between the medium and large
  recommendations.

- To reduce CD-ROM access time, choose the "complete" installation option
  when installing Sanity. This will reduce the amount of time your computer
  has to spend reading from the CD-ROM though it will require more free hard
  disk space to install.

- If your system has errors reading from the CD-ROM drive, please perform
  the following checks:

	1) Make sure the disc surface is clean.

	2) Examine the surface of the disc for any visible scratches.

	3) Check the documentation that came with your CD-ROM drive or
	   contact the company that supplied the drive in order to determine
	   if your CD-ROM drive is functioning properly.


TECHNICAL SUPPORT:
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Please do not contact Fox Interactive regarding any hardware or software
driver related issues - these should be directed to the respective
manufacturer or vendor.

If you are having a technical problem with the game that neither the manual
nor these release notes helps you solve, you may contact Fox Interactive
for technical support only at the technical support number or e-mail
address printed in the user manual.

Check the Fox Interactive web site at http://www.foxinteractive.com for
Frequently Asked Questions, game patches and other information, or call
(410) 568-3630 from 5am-9pm Pacific Standard Time.

MORE INFORMATION:
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- Be sure to check out the Sanity: Aiken's Artifact Website at:

	http://www.sanitygame.com/

- Check out other Monolith titles at:

	http://www.lith.com/

- Check out other FOX Interactive titles at:

	http://www.foxinteractive.com/