Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events(TM) README Last Updated: 2004-28-07 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INSTALLATION & SET UP 1. Minimum System Requirements 2. Autoplay 3. DirectX(R) Detection & Installation VIDEO ISSUES 1. ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9000 Water Texture Corruption WINDOWS(R) SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEM ISSUES 1. Alt-Tab in Windows(R) 98/SE 2. Alt-Enter in Windows(R) 98/SE 3. Uninstall problems in Windows(R) XP 4. Save Game Space in Windows(R) 98/SE 5. Windows(R) XP RAM Usage GENERAL ISSUES 1. Transferring Save Games 2.  Skipping Cutscenes INTRODUCTION Refer to this document if you encounter difficulties with one or more aspects of installation or running the Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Many of the most commonly encountered issues are covered here. IMPORTANT NOTE: Use of the in-game console is not supported by Activision(R). Please do not contact Activision Customer Support with issues that arise from using console commands in-game. INSTALLATION & SET UP 1. Minimum System Requirements - 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX(R) 9.0b-compliant 32 MB video card and drivers* - English version of Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP - Pentium(R) III 600 MHz or Athlon(tm) 800 MHz or higher processor - 128 MB of RAM - 738 MB of uncompressed hard disk space (plus 200 MB for the Windows(R) swap file and 60 MB free for saved games) - A 100% Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP-compatible computer system including: - DirectX(R) 9.0b (Included) - 100% DirectX(R) 9.0b-compliant true 16-bit sound card and drivers - 100% Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP- compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers - 100% Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP- compatible quad speed CD-ROM drive (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers *Supported Chipsets for Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP All nVidia GeForce(tm) chipsets nVidia TnT2(tm) All ATI Radeon(R) chipsets Matrox Parhelia(tm) *Important Note: Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipsets listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX(R) 9.0b compatibility. 2. Autoplay If the Windows Autoplay feature is enabled on your computer, the Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Launch screen will automatically appear when you insert the game CD into your CD-ROM drive. Simply click on Install and follow the on-screen instructions to continue the installation. If the Autoplay feature is disabled, you can begin the installation by doing the following: a) Go to the Start Menu and select Run. b) Type D:\AUTORUN.EXE (assuming D is your CD-ROM drive letter) and press Enter. -or- a) Double-click on My Computer b) Double-Click your CD-ROM drive icon. c) Double-click on AUTORUN.EXE. Windows 98 may not be setup to AutoPlay CDs. To check, perform the following steps: a. Open the Windows 98/ME Control Panel folder and double-click on the System icon. b. Click on the Device Manager tab. Click on the plus sign next to CD-ROM, select your CD-ROM and choose Properties. c. Click on the Settings tab. Insert a check mark in the box to the left of Auto Insert Notification and select OK. 3. DirectX(R) Detection & Installation During the Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events setup, the install process will prompt you to install Microsoft DirectX on your computer. If you choose "Yes," the Microsoft DirectX setup program will install the appropriate files on your computer. DirectX 9.0b is a set of sound, video, input and network functions developed by Microsoft. DirectX 9.0b is necessary to run Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. If you already have other Windows 98/98SE/2000/ME/XP games on your computer, chances are you already have a version of DirectX installed. In this case, the Microsoft installer will detect and overwrite any previous versions with DirectX 9.0b. At that point, you will need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. If, however, you already have DirectX 9.0b installed on your computer, the Microsoft DirectX 9.0b installer will detect it and not overwrite any files. You will not need to restart your computer after installation in order to run Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. If you choose not to install DirectX 9.0b when you install the game, you can manually install it later. To do so, use the following instructions: 1. Place your Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events disk in the CD-ROM drive. The Launch screen should appear. (See the AutoPlay section above if it does not appear.) 2. Click on the "Extras" button. 3. Click on "DirectX" and follow the installation process. When DirectX installation finishes, you will need to restart your computer for the new drivers to work. VIDEO ISSUES 1. ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9000 Water Texture Corruption Users playing Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events on an ATI Radeon 9000 video card may see some texture flickering. These errors are specific to the Radeon 9000 card. WINDOWS(R) SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEM ISSUES 1. Alt-Tab in Windows(R) 98/98Se If you are running Windows 98/98Se, using Alt-Tab to exit Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and switch to another application is not recommended. While you may be able to Alt-Tab to exit Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the game will remain running in the task bar, you may not be able to recover the game by Alt-Tabbing back to it. At this point you may have to use the Windows Task Manager to close the game. Hold down the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys to bring up the Task Manager. Then select Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events from the list of programs currently running and hit the End Task button. 2. Alt-Enter in Windows(R) 98/98Se Using Alt-Enter to minimize the game window is not recommended for users running Windows 98/98Se. This will crash the game on some systems. 3. Uninstall problems in Windows(R) XP If you receive the following error while attempting to uninstall Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Internal Failure Error number: 0x80040707 You are attempting to uninstall on a Power User account when the game was installed on an Administrator account. You’ll have to uninstall Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events on the account you were logged into when you installed it. Log out of Windows(R) and login to the Administrator account on your system. Then you will be able to uninstall Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events normally. 4. Save Game Space in Windows(R) 98/SE If you are running Windows 98/98Se, please make sure you have at least 60MB of disk space on the hard drive that Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events has been installed to. 5. Windows(R) XP RAM Usage 256 MB of RAM is recommended for users running Windows XP. Although the game will run on XP systems with 128 MB of RAM, you may experience performance glitches due to Windows XP's higher RAM usage. GENERAL ISSUES   1. Transferring Save Games   Save files should not be transferred from one machine to another. Save games will only work on the system they are created on. 2.  Skipping Cutscenes You can skip movies in the game with the Enter key. At any point during a movie, hit Enter, and the movie will end immediately. However, several of the movies cannot be skipped. Archived by OldGamesDownload.com on 6th October, 2019