DOCUMENT:Q126878 11-DEC-1999 [homemm] TITLE :Baseball 1995: BS95READ.TXT Contents (Part 2 of 3) PRODUCT :Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles PROD/VER:WINDOWS: OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS: ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Complete Baseball Guide for Windows, 1995 edition ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= The following is part 2 of the BS95READ.TXT included with Microsoft Complete Baseball for Windows, 1995 edition. FONT DISPLAY PROBLEMS --------------------- Complete Baseball uses two TrueType fonts for its display. If you receive a message stating that one of the fonts is unavailable, make sure that TrueType fonts are enabled on your computer. 1. From the Windows Control Panel, select Fonts and then click the TrueType button. 2. In the True Type dialog, make sure the Enable True Type Fonts check box is selected (an X appears in the check box when it's selected). 3. If the Enable True Type Fonts check box is selected, in the Fonts dialog, click Help for more information on adding fonts. The fonts you need are installed with Windows and can be found in the Windows system directory. Make sure to add all the Arial and Times New Roman fonts to your computer. ------------------ LARGE FONT DRIVERS ------------------ If you are using a Large Font driver, some statistical columns in the Team Rosters section may appear clipped and some statistics in Baseball Daily may appear clipped or overlapped. Switching to the Small Font version of the driver will fix this problem. For more information on installing or changing video drivers, consult your Windows documentation. ------------------ ATI/MACH32 DRIVERS ------------------ If you are using an ATI video card and video driver, and you're having display problems, make sure you reset the RLEFIX setting in Complete Baseball's MSSPORTS.INI file as described above. Also, for Complete Baseball to run on the ATI driver, the "256 color palette" control in the "Advanced features" of the "ATI Control Panel" needs to be set to ON. See your video card documentation for more information. If you are using a mach32 video card and driver, image quality will be lost if Crystal fonts are enabled. Make sure that Crystal fonts are disabled. 1. Open the mach32 Utilities program group. 2. Open the Mach FlexDesk Control Panel. 3. Click on the Crystal button to get to FlexDesk Crystal Tune. 4. Choose "off" under the "Crystal" options and click on Ok to save this setting. Image quality will also be lost if you are using a Super VGA video driver with a mach32 video card. Run Windows Setup (described above) to check your video driver and switch to the mach32 driver for better image quality. If you continue to have problems, try contacting ATI Technologies to see if they have a newer version of the driver you're using. For information about ATI video cards, contact ATI Technical Support at (416) 756-0711. The ATI cards and driver products referenced here are manufactured by ATI Technologies, Inc., a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability. -------------------- CIRRUS LOGIC DRIVERS -------------------- The 64k-color Cirrus Logic video driver, v1.32, that shipped with the Compaq ProLinea and Presario (and presumably other systems having these drivers) is incompatible with the VfW 1.1 drivers shipped with Complete Baseball, 1994. As a result, during Complete Baseball Setup, your system may crash when profiling your video display. This problem does not occur with the latest versions of the 64K-color Cirrus Logic video driver, v1.41 and v1.43. To upgrade your Cirrus Logic video drivers, contact Cirrus Logic product support at: Cirrus Logic 3100 W. Warren Ave. Freemont, CA 94538 (510) 623-8300 The Cirrus Logic driver products referenced here are manufactured by Cirrus Logic, a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability. --------------- TOSHIBA DRIVERS --------------- If you are using the Toshiba t44v480c.DRV video driver, Complete Baseball video may appear pink. To fix this problem, go into your WIN.INI [drawdib] section and change 1,0,0,0 to 5,0,0,0. The [drawdib] section should appear similarly to the example shown below: [drawdib] t44v480c.drv 640x480x8(5)=5,0,0,0 Save your WIN.INI file and then try playing video in Complete Baseball again. -------------------- 64,000 COLOR DRIVERS -------------------- If your machine has a 16 bit video card, and you are using a 64,000 color driver, some images in Complete Baseball may not display. To fix this problem, switch to a 256 color driver. For more information on installing video drivers, consult your Windows manual. ================================================================= 5. AUDIO PROBLEMS ================================================================= Although you can install and run Complete Baseball without a sound card, to hear the sounds that come with the product, a sound card is required. If you're sure you have a sound card, read through the troubleshooting information listed below, or consult the user manual that came with your sound card for more information. -------------------- GENERAL SOUND ISSUES -------------------- Audio problems can have many causes. Other applications that play sounds may interrupt sounds in Complete Baseball because your computer cannot play two sounds simultaneously. This is generally a temporary clash that will resolve itself. However, a few applications that play sounds, such as some screen savers, may remove audio capability from all other Windows applications. If you suspect you have such an application, turn it off or do not run it while running Complete Baseball. ------------------------- SOUNDS PLAY, BUT NOT WELL ------------------------- Sound distortion is often caused by sending a higher volume or amplitude of sound than the speakers are able to handle. Also, if the volume control on your audio card is set too high it may cause distortion from the amplifier on the audio card. Sometimes speakers that are not of high quality will distort at a lower volume than better speakers. It is also possible that the software settings on your sound board are causing distortion. For example, if the sound card volume or "WAVE file input" is set to near its maximum, it will produce amplification distortion, just as it would on a stereo system. To find out how to change your sound board settings, check the documentation that came with your sound board. This is normally done with either a volume dial on the back of your audio card (in the rear of your computer where the speakers plug in) or with a program that is often called a "mixer," which is usually installed in the Windows Control Panel of the Main program group. Some audio cards use both types of controls, and they must both be adjusted. Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Cards ------------------------------------- Audio clips may sound "scratchy" (that is, distorted) when played from the Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum card. To correct this problem, change the Media Vision driver DMA setting to 7. To change the driver setting: 1. Choose the Drivers icon in the Windows Control Panel. 2. Select the Media Vision Wave/MIDI/Aux driver, and then choose Setup. 3. Under the DMA setting, set the selection to 7. 4. Choose OK, and then choose Restart Now. Audio clips should now play correctly. The Pro Audio Spectrum sound card and driver products referenced here are manufactured by Media Vision, Inc., a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability. For more information, call Media Vision, Inc. Technical Support at (800) 638-2807 or (510) 770-9905. On CompuServe, Media Vision can be reached by typing GO MEDIAVISION at any prompt. 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