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After you run the game and it initializes you'll see its main window on the
screen. If everything goes right you will see there a platform with texture.
The game is already started for you with the traditional layout. Hold the
second mouse button and turn the platform to make sure that animations in the
game are fast and smooth enough. If not, go to "Options"->"Options..."
and try to adjust settings so that the game will work faster. Remember that you
can turn the platform with the tiles to change the view during the game. Push
the toolbar button "New" to start a new game. The same action can be
done by pressing Control+N or selecting "New game..." in the File menu.
Rules of Lines
The purpose is to remove as many balls as possible. You must form horizontal,
vertical or diagonal lines of 5 balls or more. Each turn will add three new
balls to the board. You are then allowed to move a ball to another place,
provided that it can slide freely on the board to its new position. There are
no hints or undo in Lines game. You can always see three balls on the side of a
board. Those three will be added to the board after your move.
Performance notes
A 3D graphics accelerator is highly recommended to play 2004 Lines. You'll
need a very fast processor to get satisfying performance on a computer without
3D video card. The game works fine with any video card with at least 4Mb RAM,
but some of the options like reflections and shadows require a stencil buffer,
which may be not supported by some old cards. Therefore the first thing to do
to make the game faster is to disable these options. They are marked in the "Visual
options" as the performance critical.
The following steps may also increase the speed of a game:
Try to switch Windows desktop to 16bpp color mode. This is especially
significant if Your 3D video card does not support 32bpp 3D rendering.
Try to make the game's window smaller or decrease desktop resolution. The game
will work faster in software and hardware modes both because there are less
pixels to render.
Using the smaller textures for tiles, background and platform may increase the
speed. You can set any BMP file for the texture in the "Options"->"Textures..."
Make sure you have the latest version of video drivers and all the video
settings in Windows and computer BIOS set to optimal.
Disabling the music can increase the speed on some systems.
Please note that the game supposed to work smoothly and quickly, but the frame
rate in a game is limited. So if your system is fast, it won't be loaded on
100% just to produce a higher frame rate.
If you've tried all of those steps and the game is still slow, freezes, causes
the graphics-related error messages, or shows the blank screen, please send me
an email including the information about your computer configuration, operating
system and the problem you got.
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