README DOCUMENT


THE SETTLERS – Rise of an Empire Demo

Thank you for playing the demo version of THE SETTLERS – Rise of an Empire. In
this document you will find information on how to install and play the game.




CONTENT

1. Getting Started

2. Hardware Requirements

3. Known Issues

4. Important Websites

5. Copyright





1. GETTING STARTED


Installation

If you have received this version on a DVD, please insert the DVD into the DVD
drive of your computer and follow the instructions of the Autorun screen. If
the Autorun does not start automatically, double click on “setup.exe” in the
drive’s directory.

Then follow the instructions of the installer.


Starting the game

If you are starting the game from Windows XP, double click on the symbol on
your desktop saying “THE SETTLERS – Rise of an Empire Demo”.
If you have are starting the game from VISTA, open the Gameexplorer, click on
“THE SETTLERS – Rise of an Empire” with the right mouse button and then select
play or double click on the SETTLERS icon.



Main Menu

Singleplayer: In the demo of “THE SETTLERS – Rise of an Empire” you can play
two single player maps. Select “Single Player” in the main menu to get direct
access to these maps. The first map is a tutorial that will explain the basic
functionality of the game. The second map, Arroyo, is a single player map in
the “free settle” mode: You can build a settlement at your own pace in this
lovely South European setting.

Profile: You can edit your profile in this menu.

Options: Here, you can change the video, audio and interface settings and check
the keyboard shortcuts of the game.


Additional Content

With this demo version, you get a document that will help you play the game. It
will include
- a “Demo Guide” with tips on how to succeed
- two sample economy cycles explaining you how to gather and process resources



2. HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

MINIMUM:
• Windows XP, Windows XP (64-bit), Windows Vista, Windows Vista (64-bit)
• DirectX 9.0c (June 2007 release)
• Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, Athlon XP 2000+ processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card with vertex shader 1.1 and pixel
shader 1.3 support:
o NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
o ATI RADEON 9500
• DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card
• 2 GB free hard drive space
• DVD ROM drive

RECOMMENDED:
• Windows XP, Windows XP (64-bit), Windows Vista, Windows Vista (64-bit)
• DirectX 9.0c (June 2007 release)
• Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, Athlon 64 3400+ processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card with shader 2.0 support:
o NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
o ATI RADEON X1650 XT
• DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card
• 2 GB free hard drive space
• DVD ROM drive



3. KNOWN ISSUES

Technical Issues
- Slowdown when the player scrolls for the first time to a big city (camera may
freeze for a few seconds)
- Slowdown when placing a wall near a cliff
- Alt+Tab during loading can crash the game
- Pressing a button in a menu twice may activate the button located in the same
position in the previous or following menu
- The highest graphic settings need a lot of RAM
- The re-spawn bar of the knight is sometimes not shown at the castle
- Minor graphical issues with highlight button and disabling buttons (buttons
pop up for one frame, then disappear if disabled
- For shader 1.3 hardware, some effects are missing or not final (Fog of War,
some water effects, …)
- Subtitles are sometimes not displayed in the right way
- There are some collision problems with Settlers
- Sometimes Settlers make strange turns, especially when they have carts
- When the player activates full-screen anti alising he is not able to make
screenshots
- Voices sometimes overlap each other.

General Gameplay Issues
- When the player has 150 Settlers in his town, settlers can get sick. This can
lead to a lockdown of the game if the player has no medicine available and is
not a baron yet, as no promotion of the knight is possible anymore to unlock
the medicine need.
- When attacking targets out of their range, catapults sometimes do not move
closer to attack but stay where they are


4. IMPORTANT WEBSITES

Get all the latest information on “THE SETTLERS – Rise of an Empire” here:
http://thesettlers.uk.ubi.com/

Get the latest driver updates on these sites:

ATI http://www.ati.com

NVIDIA http://www.nvidia.com

Matrox http://www.matrox.com

Creative Labs http://www.creative.com

Hercules http://www.hercules.com


5. COPYRIGHT

© 2007 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. The Settlers, Blue Byte and
the Blue Byte logo are trademarks of Red Storm Entertainment in the U.S. and/or
other countries. Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of
Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Red Storm
Entertainment Inc. is a Ubisoft Entertainment company. Developed by Blue Byte
Software.