Patch 1.1 file - Lords of the Realm III

LORDS OF THE REALM(R) III
Patch Version 1.00 - 1.01
Readme File

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About This Document:

Thank you for applying the LORDS OF THE REALM III 1.01 patch.
This document contains information about LORDS OF THE REALM III and other
information about the program not found in the Help Files. This README file
includes information that pertains to general problems and questions you may
have
concerning the game or your computer. Should you experience any problems with
LORDS OF THE REALM III, please refer to this
file for additional help on answering questions about the game and solving
technical difficulties.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. CHANGES TO LORDS OF THE REALM III IN 1.01 PATCH
II. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
III. MANUAL INSTALLATION
IV. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES
V. GENERAL GAME ISSUES
VI. LICENSE AGREEMENT
VII. SIERRA WARRANTY AND LEGAL INFORMATION
VIII. CONTACTING SIERRA / VU GAMES

I. CHANGES TO LORDS OF THE REALM III IN 1.01 PATCH
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Game crashes

a. Client can no longer place vassals while waiting for the host to finish
loading the multiplayer game causing crash.
b. Holy Scholar no longer crash the game when leaving your vassal pool after
being removed from the cursor.
c. When exiting a game with an agent or retainer still attached to your icon
and starting up another game will no longer crash the game.
d. A default noble portrait will now appear in the start location selection
screen in multiplayer, when the game is started through GameSpy arcade, when
there are no precreated noble profiles created.
e. Added a refresh button to the MP lobby interface.

Gameplay fixes

a. Replacing a knight on a parcel will no longer reduce the garrison to
starting levels.
b. AI now observes delay in vassal replacment when a parcel is raised.
c. House dispositions are saved with saved games instead of resetting to
neutral.
d. Mouse over text for political dispositions are no longer truncated.
e. Letters now capitalized in game chat.
f. AI units will now move out of burning castle walls.
g. Shields on historaical battle maps more accuretly represent the actual start
location of the troops.
h. Increased the movment speed of units between containers.
i. Pillaging and the use of Saboteurs now reduce the parcel level.
j. Special abilities marked as army splash are now affecting the other
companies in that army.
k. Units will no longer be left behind when entering a seige tower.
l. Quick save occurs when secondary information panel is open.
m. AI will now hire more mercenary units rather than focus mainly on agents and
retainers.
n. Boiling oil seige engineers now clearly target units climbing ladders.
o. Refresh button added to the MP lobby.

II. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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A. LORDS OF THE REALM III requires a PC running either Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, or Windows
Millennium Edition.

It must also meet the following minimum requirements:
OS: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
CPU: 800 MHz Intel Pentium(R) III or AMD Athlon(TM) Processor or better
RAM: 128MB RAM (256MB RAM for Windows 2000/XP)
Video: Lords of the Realm III requires at least a DirectX(TM) 8.1
compatible video card using the NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM), ATI(R) Radeon(TM), or
more recent chipsets (specifically, a video card that supports DXT1 and
DXT3 texture compression), with a minimum of 16MB video memory.
Audio: DirectX(R) 8.1 compatible sound card
Hard-Drive Space: 850 MB
CD/DVD Rom Speed: 24X CD-ROM or faster
Windows compatible keyboard and mouse.
Internet (for multiplayer):
56K dialup connection is only supported for 2-player Battle Maps
Cable, DSL or faster direct Internet connection supports multiplayer for up
to 8 players

B. For optimal performance, play LORDS OF THE REALM III on a PC that meets or
exceeds the following specifications:

OS: Win 2000/XP
CPU: Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or faster
RAM: 256MB RAM
Video: 32MB video card using the Nvidia GeForce 3, ATI Radeon 8500, or more
recent chipset
Hard-Drive Space: 850 MB
CD/DVD Rom Speed: 32X CD-ROM or faster
Internet (for multiplayer): Cable, DSL or faster direct Internet connection

C. Supported Video Cards
LORDS OF THE REALM III has been tested and optimized to run on the following
video cards.
1. ATI Technologies:
-Radeon 7500
-Radeon 8500
-Radeon 9000
-Radeon 9100
-Radeon 9200
-Radeon 9500
-Radeon 9600
-Radeon 9700
-Radeon 9800
2. NVIDIA:
-All GeForce class cards.
3. Matrox(R):
-Parhelia(TM)

*** Please ensure you have the latest drivers before running LORDS OF THE REALM
III, or you may encounter graphical problems.

D. Supported Video Cards
1. NVIDIA cards: www.NVIDIA.com
2. ATI cards: www.ati.com
3. Matrox: www.matrox.com

III. MANUAL INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
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Any of the below can be automatically installed by clicking the corresponding
link on the Lords of the Realm III auto-run
panel. Click the Autorun.exe icon in the Lords of the realm III root directory
to start the autorun.

A. INSTALLING LORDS OF THE REALM III MANUALLY
If for some reason you have a problem with the games auto-installation feature,
the game can be manually installed by running
the setup.exe found in the root directory of the game CD.

To install LORDS OF THE REALM III manually:
1. Double click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop.
2. Right click on the CD-ROM drive (possibly D:) and select the explore
option. This will open a new window.
3. Double click on the setup.exe.
4. Follow the installation wizard's prompts to install the game.

B. INSTALLING ADOBE ACROBAT(R) READER MANUALLY

The electronic game manual is located in the root directory of the game CD. The
manual is in .pdf format and requires the
program Adobe Acrobat Reader to open. If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat
Reader the installer will prompt you with the
option. If you opt to install the Acrobat Reader at a later time the program
has been included on the LORDS OF THE REALM III
CD.

To install Adobe Acrobat Reader manually:
1. Double click on the "My Computer" icon on your desktop.
2. Right click on the CD-ROM drive with the CD in it (possibly D:) and
select the explore option.
3. This will open a new window containing the contents of the CD. Open the
Adobe folder and double click on the Adobe
Acrobat installer (the ar505.exe icon).
4. Follow the prompts to install the program. Once installer is finished
you will be able to read the electronic game
manual.

C. INSTALLING DIRECTX 9.0 MANUALLY

If you need to install DirectX 9.0 manually, the DirectX 9.0 setup program is
located on your LORDS OF THE REALM III CD in
the folder DirectX.

To install DirectX 9.0 manually:
1. Double click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop.
2. Right click on the CD-ROM drive with the CD in it (possibly D:) and
select the explore option.
3. This will open a new window containing the contents of the CD. Open the
DirectX folder and double click on the
dxsetup.exe icon.
4. Follow the prompts provided by the DirectX setup program to install the
program.

D. CONFIGURING LORDS OF THE REALM III GRAPHICS SETTINGS
The game configuration tool will automatically run the first time you start up
the game. You can change any of the graphics
options by running the Configutation.exe located in the Lords of the Realm III
root directory.

To run the Configuration.exe:
1. A short cut to the Lords III graphics configuration tool is installed in
the Lords of the Realm III folder of the
'Start menu'.
Alternatively:
2. a. Double click the Configuration.exe found in the root folder of Lords
of the Realm III.
b. You can use the slider bar to generically set the graphics options.
c. To change specific graphics options, click the Advanced options
button.
d. Once you are finished changing the graphics click the Save button and
the executable will automatically close.

IV. GENERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES
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A. The first time you run the Lords of the Realm III, after setting or altering
the detail settings, the game could take
several minutes to optimize the game maps.

B. Only 2-player Battle Map are supported for users with the minimal 56K dialup
connection.

C. For better game performance, we highly recommend exiting all non-essential
background programs before running Lords of the Realm III. Lords of the Realm
III will also run better if your system has current hardware drivers and a
recently
defragmented hard drive.

D. Application switching is not supported. Using Alt-Tab, Alt-esc or even
hitting the Windows key to minimize the game is
known to cause instability issues in the game.

E. Lords of the Realm III will not start while Net Meeting(R) is running in the
background.

F. The screen saver is disabled while Lords of the Realm is running. If the
game crashes during play then your
screensaver may need to be reactivated.

G. Switching toanother executable while Lords of the Realm III is running may
cause some of the graphics resources to become
corrupted. If the graphics do become corrupted for any reason, closing the game
and restarting should clear up most issues.
If you must switch to another executable while playing Lords of the Realm III,
we recommend that you first save your current
game.

H. Certain applications, like some instant messaging and email software, can be
configured to open 'pop-up' windows when you
receive a message, that instantly jump in front of any other application.
Because Lords of the Realm III is a full-screen
application, it will be minimized if this happens, which interrupts gameplay
and can cause instability in some cases. For
this reason, we recommend that you exit other applications or disable all
pop-up windows when running Lords of the Realm III. Please see the
documentation for your particular messaging and email software for details
regarding how to disable pop-up windows.

I. When you start Lords of the Realm III if the screen turns black and returns
back to the desktop, your monitor may be
having refresh issues. Make sure you have the proper drivers for your monitor
installed. The default monitor information may
have a different refresh rate than your monitor.

1. Open the control panel located in the settings tab of your start button
menu.
2. Select the Display icon.
3. Choose the Settings tab.
4. Click the Advanced button.
5. Choose the Monitor tab.
6. The panel should have the manufacture name and model number listed.
7. If the default plug and play monitor is listed you will need to contact
your monitor vendor for instructions on how to
obtain and safely install the latest monitor drivers.

J. If lasso selection boxes do not appear on the battle level, make sure you
have the latest drivers for your video card and
turn off the shader option. To turn off the shader option run the
configuration.exe, select 'Advanced Options', at the bottom of the panel toggle
the 'Disable Shaders' button.

K. Installing Lords of the Realm III to your desktop is not supported. Lords of
the Realm III should run fine if you install
it into a folder on a desktop, but you do so at your own risk.

L. If for some reason Lords of the Realm III is terminated prematurely (ex:
through the task manager), and you cannot
re-start Lords of the Realm III, reboot your system and try again.

M. Some modems install software that disconnect internet access when a Game is
launched, contact you modem vendor to see if
Windows software can be used instead of the specific modem software.

N. There are known driver/video ram issues when playing in 1600x1200 on
GeForce2 boards -- users should stay in lower resolutions on those cards.

O. The ATI Radeon 9200 is a dual card with both TV and monitor output. If the
ATI driver has both outputs enabled, Lords of the Realm III
may run at a low frame rate. If this occurs, disable the TV driver and the
game should run fine with clear audio and no
performance issues.

P. In order to start an internet multiplayer game you must have an active
connection to the internet.

Q. AMD has identified an issue that could result in the corruption of video
data shared between AGP graphics adapters and AMD
Athlon(TM) or AMD Duron(TM) family processors, including the AMD Athlon MP,
mobile Athlon 4, and AMD Athlon XP processors,
when running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or
Windows 2000 Advanced Server. This issue is
independent of system chipset and has been observed when running Ziff-Davis 3D
Winbench(TM) 2000 and Mad Onion 3DMark(R) 2000
in benchmarking mode.
Please contact AMD directly for the patch that resolves this issue.

R. If you have multiple optical drives (cd-roms or DVD-roms) and you get the
insert disk message, try again using the other
optical drive.

S. If you are playing under Windows 98SE or ME with certain audio cards, you
may need to turn down you Sound Acceleration due
to driver instability. To do this open the Start menu and select 'Run'. Enter
'dxdiag' in the Open: field. This will open the
DirectX Diagnostic tool. It may take a moment for the tool to finish analyzing
your system. During this time the monitor may
flash on and off, this is normal and video will return momentarily. Once the
diagnostic is done running, click on the 'Sound'
tab. If you have a compatible sound card installed, the 'Hardware sound
acceleration level' meter will be active. Slide the
bar to the far left to deactivate sound acceleration.

T. The Castle Editor, included with Lords of the Realm III, can be used to make
custom castle for use with the game. It is
not a supported Sierra product. Impressions is providing this software "as is"
and does not guarantee that it will work on
your computer.

U. If you have problems launching Lords of the Realm III from Gamespy Arcade,
please try to either download a newer version
of Arcade, or try to connect to Gamespy from within Lords of the Realm III via
Multiplayer - Internet.

V. When playing a multiplayer game of Lords of the Realm III over the internet,
the hosting computer should always be the
more powerful computer with the fastest network connection. If you are playing
with a 56K connection, you should only play
with a maximum of 2 players and 2 AI. Playing on maps with more AI players may
cause excessive latency.

W. Players with a 56K connection should try to avoid servers with high ping
rates.

X. Users experiencing stability issues, on low end AMD systems running older
Geforce Cards, should contact Nvidia for driver updates that may address these
problems.

V. GENERAL GAME ISSUES
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A. Multiplayer Issues
Modem users may experience connectivity problems when playing LORDS OF THE
REALM III on Gamespy(R) while running a personal
firewall (such as ZoneAlarm(R) or Norton Personal Firewall(R)). Disabling the
firewall during play may solve those problems.
If you want to play a multiplayer game of LORDS OF THE REALM III and you are
behind a router, you may need to do one of the
following:
1) Disable your router so that your machine is connected directly to the
internet.
2) Unblock port 6073 and ports 2302 to 2400 (these are the default DirectPlay
ports used by the game).
3) Force LORDS OF THE REALM III to use a given port number by using "-port
####" at the command line, where #### is between
1 and 65535.

If you still encounter difficulty in connecting to GameSpy, please allow
traffic for at least the following TCP ports.
6667 (IRC)
80 (HTTP)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6500 (incoming, UDP, default roomquery port; can be customized with
roomqueryport= in svc.cfg)

B. Dual Monitor Setup
You will not be able to play LORDS OF THE REALM III on your secondary monitor
unless both are running from the same supported
video card. If you have two video cards, the primary card must be supported by
Lords of the Realm III or the game will not
run.

C. CD Keys
Please remember, no one from Sierra will ever ask you for your key. If someone
logs onto GameSpy(TM) using your CD key while
you are in a GameSpy lobby or game, you will be kicked out.
Remember, do not give out your CD key to anyone or you will not be able to play
multiplayer games!

D. Graphics Settings
Lords of the Realm III's default graphics quality settings are set to low. If
you want to experience the full visual
experience of Lords of the Realm III, you will need to set these values to
high.
Increasing the graphic quality or screen resolution will affect game
performance.
You can increase the game performance by lowering the graphic performance or
resolution.

E. Installation of DirectX9.0
Lords of the Realm III recommends DirectX9.0 or higher in order to run. You
will be prompted to install DirectX9 during the
installation process. If you have already installed or want to install DirectX9
later, please select no.
Note: If you select no during the installation process, you must install
DirectX9.0 manually before Lords of the Realm III
will run.

F. Gamespy Arcade
While Lords of the Realm III provides Gamespy Arcade(TM) as an optional part of
the installation process, Lords of the Realm
III is not supported by it. If you want to play a multiplayer game on Gamespy,
please select the GameSpy option provided in
the front end.

G. Manual Changes
1. Secondary Information Window (p.23)
2. When you right click on the portrait of a vassal or parcel in the Info
Panel, the Secondary Information Window opens in
the map window above the panel. This window contains tabs for detailed
information about the selected vassal, parcel, or
army. In addition, two other tables provide a quick summary of your ongoing
battles and state of your realm. Right-clicking
on the portrait again closes this window.
3. Empty Parcel Button (p. 23)
4. The left-most button of the Action Buttons is the Find Empty Parcel
button. When this button is highlighted, one or more
of your parcels does not have a vassal assigned to it. Clicking the button
takes you immediately to the empty parcel.
Repeated presses take you through any other empty parcels in sequence. When all
your parcels have vassals assigned, the
button grays out and cannot be selected.
5. Sea Travel (p. 29)
6. To move an army by sea you must first move it onto a port space as
indicated by the cursor change. Once the army is in
the port space, right-clicking on the adjacent ship orders the army to board.
From there the ship can be ordered to sail to
any port or landing.

VI. LICENSE AGREEMENT
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in any legal proceeding by one of the parties against the other shall be
commenced and maintained in any state or federal
court located in the State of California, County of Los Angeles, having subject
matter jurisdiction with respect to the
dispute between the parties. This License Agreement may be amended, altered or
modified only by an instrument in writing,
specifying such amendment, alteration or modification, executed by both
parties. In the event that any provision of this
License Agreement shall be held by a court or other tribunal of competent
jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provision
will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining portions
of this License Agreement shall remain in full
force and effect. This License Agreement constitutes and contains the entire
agreement between the parties with respect to
the subject matter hereof and supersedes any prior oral or written agreements.
I hereby acknowledge that I have read and understand the foregoing License
Agreement and agree that the action of installing
the Program is an acknowledgment of my agreement to be bound by the terms and
conditions of the License Agreement contained
herein. I also acknowledge and agree that this License Agreement is the
complete and exclusive statement of the agreement
between Sierra and me and that the License Agreement supersedes any prior or
contemporaneous agreement, either oral or
written, and any other communications between Sierra and me.

VII. SIERRA WARRANTY AND LEGAL INFORMATION
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You are entitled to use this product for your own use, but may not copy,
reproduce, translate, publicly perform, display, or
reduce to any electronic medium or machine- readable form, reproductions of the
software or manual to other parties in any
way, nor sell, rent or lease the product to others without prior written
permission of Sierra. You may use one copy of the
product on a single computer. YOU MAY NOT NETWORK THE PRODUCT OR OTHERWISE
INSTALL IT OR USE IT ON MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER AT
THE SAME TIME.
UNAUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIONS: SIERRA WARRANTS ONLY THAT THE PROGRAM WILL
PERFORM AS DESCRIBED IN THE USER DOCUMENTATION. NO
OTHER ADVERTISING, DESCRIPTION, OR REPRESENTATION, WHETHER MADE BY A SIERRA
DEALER, DISTRIBUTOR, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE, SHALL BE
BINDING UPON SIERRA OR SHALL CHANGE THE TERMS OF THIS WARRANTY.
IMPLIED WARRANTIES LIMITED: EXCEPT AS STATED ABOVE, SIERRA MAKES NO WARRANTY,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THIS PRODUCT.
SIERRA DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE IS FIT FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY
SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE NINETY (90) DAY DURATION OF THIS LIMITED EXPRESS
WARRANTY AND IS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY
DISCLAIMED. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED
WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU.
NO CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES: SIERRA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES, EVEN IF SIERRA
IS ADVISED OF OR AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS MEANS THAT
SIERRA SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR LOST
PROFITS OR REVENUES, OR FOR DAMAGES OR COSTS INCURRED AS A RESULT OF LOSS OF
TIME, DATA OR USE OF THE SOFTWARE, OR FROM ANY
OTHER CAUSE EXCEPT THE ACTUAL COST OF THE PRODUCT. IN NO EVENT SHALL SIERRA'S
LIABILITY EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE OF THIS
PRODUCT. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION
OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

VIII. CONTACTING SIERRA / VU GAMES
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CUSTOMER SERVICE, SUPPORT AND SALES

United States Sales
Phone: (800) 757-7707 or (310) 649-8008
Hours: Monday-Friday 8 AM to 4:30 P.M., Pacific Time
Fax: (310) 258-0744

International Sales
Phone: (310) 649-8008
Hours: Monday-Friday 8 AM to 4:30 P.M., Pacific Time
Fax: (310) 258-0744
Sierra.com

On-Line Sales
Internet USA: Sierra.com

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

North America

Sierra Entertainment offers a 24-hour automated technical support line with
recorded answers to the most frequently asked
technical questions. To access this service, call (310) 649-8033, and follow
the recorded instructions to find your specific
topic and resolve the issue. If this fails to solve your problem, you may still
write or fax us with your questions, or
contact us via our Web site: Support.vugames.com

Sierra Entertainment
Technical Support
4247 South Minnewawa Avenue
Fresno, CA 93725
Main: (310) 649-8033
Monday-Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 4:45 P.M., Pacific Time
Fax: (310) 258-0755
Support.vugames.com

Disk and/or Manual Replacement:
Product Returns*:
Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing International
Sierra Warranty Returns
4247 South Minnewawa Ave.
Fresno, CA 93725
* Returns to this address valid in North America only.

Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing International
Sierra CD/Doco Replacement
4247 South Minnewawa Ave.
Fresno, CA 93725

NOTE: To replace your CD(s) please send only the damaged CD and a copy of your
dated receipt, if less then 90 days. After 90
days please include a $10.00 handling fee ($15.00 handling fee for console
media returns) along with the CD(s). For
Documentation replacement, please include a $5.00 handling fee and a photocopy
ONLY of either your disk or CD. Please
include a letter explaining the problems you are experiencing in order for us
to determine how we may best resolve them.
Payment should be made at the time of your request. Sorry, no credit cards.

Copyright (c)2003 Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
(c)1998-2003 Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Sierra is a trademark of Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment's end-user license agreement, limited warranty and return
policy are set forth in the EULA.txt file
found on the game CD, and are also available during the install of the game.