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README CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Introduction Game Installation DirectX 9 Setup Hot Keys Joining/Creating Internet Game Debugging Firewall/Router System Requirements Graphic and Sound Card Compatibility Tests Hints and Tips Support Thanks Contact Copyright

================================================================================ ====== 1. INTRODUCTION Hi, Thank you for purchase of "Cossacks II - Battle for Europe". We hope you will have a great time playing "Cossacks II - Battle for Europe". GSC Game World & CDV Software Entertainment AG A GAME WORTH PLAYING IS A GAME WORTH BUYING! ================================================================================ ====== 2. GAME INSTALLATION 1. Insert the Cossacks II - Battle for Europe DVD disc into your optical drive (e.g. DVD-ROM). The Autoplay screen will open automatically this should bring up the menu from which you can either install the game or exit installation. Select Install Game .

2. If the Autoplay function is disabled on your computer, you ll do the followin

g to install the game: a. Open the My Computer folder or Windows Explorer. b. Select DVD-ROM from drive list (the drive the Cossacks II - Battle for E urope disc is inserted). c. Double click on the Autoplay icon to launch the Cossacks II - Battle for Europe installation menu then select the 3rd item. d. Double click on the setup icon to launch Cossacks II - Battle for Europe s etup directly then select the 3rd point. 3. Select Install game in the launcher to begin game installation on your comp uter. 4. You can select the folder on your hard disk drive where the game will be in stalled. 5. To complete game installation follow the instructions that appear. 6. Once the game is installed, the autoplay menu will appear and you will be o ffered the opportunity to start the game. ================================================================== 3. DIRECTX 9 1. In order for the game to function correctly you must have DirectX 9 inst alled on your computer. You can find DirectX 9 on the game disc if you need to ins tall it. 2. If for some reason the Setup program doesn t install DirectX, you can insta ll it manually using the DirectX setup files which can be found on the game dis c. You can download the latest version of DirectX from the Microsoft web site as well (www.microsoft.com/directx). 3. If you try to install a new version of DirectX on your computer when it a lready has DirectX installed it won t harm the existing version. In this case, the softw are will just be updated. 4. Manual DirectX 9 Installation from the Cossacks II - Battle for Europe You can manually install the software from the game disc: 1. Insert the game disc into your optical drive. When Cossacks II - Bat tle for Europe autoplay starts the Launcher appears, from which you can either install the game or exit. Select Exit to abort the installation and exit the Setup menu. 2. With the Cossacks II - Battle for Europe disc in the drive, open the M Disc

y Computer folder or Windows Explorer. 3. Click with the right mouse button on CD drive icon and choose Open. 4. Find the DirectX folder and open it by double clicking on it. Find the file named "dxsetup.exe". Double click on the file and follow the software installation instru ctions. 5. When DirectX 9 is installed, you ll see a query when the system restar ts. If such query doesn t appear, it means that old files didn t need to be rep laced. If you have already installed Cossacks II - Battle for Europe , you can ru n the game. 6. If you haven t yet installed Cossacks II - Battle for Europe instructions in the Game Installation section. =================================================================== 4. CONTROL KEYS Commands for unit production in buildings: P- Peasants T- Mounted standard-bearer Y,U,I,O - Light cavalry (the letter Y corresponds to the furthest left icon with the unit s image on it, O corresponds the furthes right icon) H,J,K,L - Heavy cavalry (the furthest left icon with the unit s image on it corres ponds to the letter H) B,N,M- Officer, drummer and standard-bearer (in barracks) Z,X,V- Infantry Commands to Lines: Main orders: R- Bayonet attack T- Order/cancel gun-fire A- Common attack (including cannon attack, if it is loaded with case shot; it c an attack a area of land if loaded with a cannon ball) Additional: W,S,X - 1, 2, 3 lines firing (only in line formation) E,D,C- Reposition (line, column, square) G- Use grenades F- Reinforce the squadron (but only if it keeps its position and there s no attack ) S- Load cannon with case-shot X- Load cannon with cannon ball Other: Z - Choose all units of one type that are on screen follow the

Ctrl+ Z - Select all units of same type Ctrl+ A - Select all units excluding peasants Ctrl+ B - Select all buildings Ctrl+ P - Select idle peasants Delete - Kill selected unit or destroy building F7 - Zoom mode F8 - Change Mini-map size F10 - Perspective Tab - The following selected building or the formation Ctrl + Tab - Previously selected building or formation Pause - Pause the game 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 (on the numeric keypad) - Turn the selected line in the appropri ate direction Backspace- Center screen on selected unit or group of units Prompt access to units: Ctrl + 1 - 0 - To appoint definite number to unit/group of units to provide prom pt access. The subsequent pressing of corresponding numbers will immediately select numbere d units. 1 - 0 (on the main keyboard) - to select a group, appointed to appropriate numbe r. Game information: F1 - Help F5 - Show impassable zones F6 - Turn the transparency mode on/off ALT - Shows the life of units and the radius of the selected units` attack. Market: Shift + the Resources quantity button (100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000) - Multiply a quantity by 100. The rest: F11 - Take a screenshot F12 - Menu Space Bar - Move to the latest Alert zone ENTER - Open chat window. Please Note: Pressing other keys may have unpredictable results! ;)

================================================================================ ======== 5. CREATING AN INTERNET GAME AND JOINING GAMES IN PROGRESS Once the game is loaded, select the Internet Here you ll see the Internet game shell with you ll have to enter your registration name. an account, choose "Enter" to join the game. section in the Main menu. the login window, in which If you ve already created If you need to change your account,

select Edit account; select your account in the window then click on Enter. You can also edit your data without creating new account - select Edit data and enter the new info. In order to create a new account select Edit data, then select "New account". Enter your information and click on Register. Note: If you haven t played an internet game with this game version, the Create New Account section will open automatically on selecting the Internet Game item.

You can also download your profile from the game server, if it has already been created there click on Edit account and then on Old Data Items. Enter your game name, password and game registration number and then click on "Enter". If the entered information is correct your data including details and scores will be downloaded from the server to your computer. IMPORTANT NOTE: Each time you change your personal data or create a new account, don t forget to enter your personal game registration number. Only 1 account is assigned to that number. Having clicked on the Enter button, you ll enter the Internet game shell s Game Settings menu. On the right side of the screen you ll see a menu with the list of players; below that is the chat window; in the center is the list of games available to join. Below the list of games, there are the "Refresh" an d "Create" buttons. When you click on the Refresh button, the entire list of games currently in progress on the server will be displayed (the list also refreshes automatically every 30 seconds). In order to join an existing game, click on its name in the list with the left mouse button. News and Events In this section you can get acquainted with the latest news about updates and events in the internet-game. To the left of the news window you can view the list of available sections for example, on choosing the Punishments item you ll see information on punished or banned players. There is a built-in forum in the internet game shell where you can post messages and read messages from the other players; here you can create new topics as well. List of Players In this section you will find the list of all players registered on the game ser ver. A player s data includes their name, country, current score and rank. In order to view that information, click on the player s name with the left mouse button. You can read other players letters here, as well as switching to the list of Clan s, where the information on all the clans, dates of their creation, on the number of a clan s members and its founder, the total average score of each clan is also listed. In order to receive more specific information on a clan, click on its na me. Game Settings In this section you ll find the list of created and available games. Just select the game you want to join and click on it you ll automatically move into the game room, where you can chat with those who have joined the game. Select the nation you like and prepare for battle. In order to create a new Internet game, select Create Item. In the menu that appears select the name of your game, the number o f players, game type and password (if necessary). Once you ve done that you ll automatically move to the newly created game room, where you can see the landsca pe, the number of peasants and resources, victory conditions, map size, time limit a nd can turn the Fog of War on and off. After all settings are selected, select a nation and wait until other players join your game. When everyone is ready, press Start. Score Count

In this section you can see the list of previous games, their participants as we ll as the score achieved by each player. In order to switch between pages of the li st, use the Next item. In the lower right part of internet game shell screen, you ll find seven button-functions which considerably widen your options in using the internet gam e shell. The first button allows you to send a message, displayed in the messages window (this can also be done by pressing the Enter button). The second button turns the mode which separates users according to the game ver sion they re using on and off. If this mode is on, you ll receive messages only from those players who are using the same Cossacks II - Battle for Europe version as yo u are. The third button turns the Private filter "on/off". If the filter is on, you ll receive only private messages, while common chat will be totally ignored by the system. The fourth button allows you to receive information on a selected player - perso nal data, general score and rank. The fifth button allows you to join a game created by the selected player (where he has already created a game room). The sixth button allows you to ignore messages which are delivered from a certai n user. To activate that option, select the user from the list, click on the button and you will no longer receive messages from that user. The seventh button allows you to create private messages to send to any player o n the list. Choose the recipient, click on this button, and all written messages w ill be sent only to that user. ================================================================================ ===== 6. DEBUGGING - The game crashes before I start to play! This probably can be caused due to problems with drivers, hardware or Direct X. The effects of such bugs can be fixed by installing updated drivers or changing some settings. - When I play for quite a long time, the game crashes. I don t have any trouble with Windows function, or with applications such as Internet Explorer or older games. This happens mainly due to graphic (display) driver problems. If you don t update drivers for several months, it can cause problems with the game. In order to resolve the problem, install the latest version of the driver. - Troubles with the Internet Game In order to play Cossacks II - Battle for Europe over the internet you computer

has to have access to the internet. - Display refresh rate usually exceeds permissible limits due to the screen resolution change. Try to set the maximum refresh rate manually. In order to do that set the rate value which is supported for a given resolution in VideoConfig.txt: RefreshRateBias = <rate value, Hz>. E.g.: RefreshRateBias = 75 - I notice graphical bugs during the game. Install an updated video driver and new DirectX version 9.0c. Do the same thing for audio problems install a new driver for your audio card. =================================================================== 7. FIREWALLS AND ROUTERS When a computer can access basic Internet services and can play the game, Internet play is not usually much of a problem unless the computer accesses the Internet through a router or firewall. Often, special appliances, sometimes called "Fireboxes", combine Firewall and Router functions into a single easy-to-configure device. Unfortunately, firewalls and routers are topics where the specifics quickly become quite incomprehensible to people who don't work with them. In general, most firewall/routers can be easily configured so that our game can be played through them by at least one computer. Also, the person who configures them can use the information supplied below to either make the needed changes or to tell you why such changes can't be done. Resolving problems between a Firewall and the Cossacks II - Battle for Europe ga me - Firewall problems are easy to define. They are problems where certain types of Internet services or data are BLOCKED. Cossacks II - Battle for Europ e requires that TCP and UDP ports 34000-34005 and TCP port 6667 be open for communication in both directions. - Not only must UDP packets be able to pass through the firewall in both directions, but computers on both sides of the firewall must be able to initiate the flow of data important for "stateful" packet filtering firewalls that generally permit packets to flow in both directions ONLY once the flow is initiated by a computer behind the firewall, but tend to block connection attempts by hosts on the outside of the firewall to hosts within. Resolving problems with Cossacks II - Battle for Europe and Internet Routers (ga teways) - Routing problems arise most frequently in situations where one or more computers use a gateway router or firewall/router to access the Internet. If the computers on an Internet-connected network have their own real routable IP address leased from an ISP- even dynamic ones assigned using DHCP, there should be no routing problems with the Cossacks II - Battle

for Europe game. - However, if a computer doesn't have a routable IP address, but instead depends on a router that uses Network Address Translation (NAT) so that the router's one real routable IP address can be used by all computers on the LAN for Internet access, there are likely to be problems with the Cossacks II - Battle for Europe game unless steps are taken to allow other computers on the Internet to initiate connections with that computer. This is because with only the router having a real routable IP address, there is no way for computers on the Internet to send information specifically to computers on a LAN served in this manner, because the only IP address they can send to is the real routable address of the router. One of three things must be done: 1. The cheapest and most straightforward solution is to have the router send all packets coming to it from the Internet on TCP and UDP ports 34000-34005 and TCP port 6667 to a specific computer. This means that only that one computer on the LAN can play Cossacks II - Battle for Euro pe on the Internet because only it is the only one that can receive connection r equests from other players outside the LAN. 2. The next simplest solution is to have a pool of real routable IP addresses for One-to-One Network Address translation. In One-to-One NAT masquerades, the router substitutes or "masquerades" the non-routable IP address of a LAN computer with a real routable IP addressed assigned to that computer from the pool. Computers and other hosts on the Internet can send data to the router using the Masquerade address and the router will know which LAN computer to send that data to because of the One-to-One NAT assignment. 3. An extreme case that should really work well but is more difficult and expensive is configuring a LAN computer to use a real routable IP address. That computer would either need two network interfaces (one for the LAN and one for the Internet) or it could not be connected to both the LAN and the Internet. Cossacks II - Battle for Europe and Routers That Use NAT: - Cossacks II - Battle for Europe does not guarantee full functionality for comp uters accessing the Internet via a router using NAT or even One-to-One NAT. Users with computers connected in this way are limited to joining games hosted by others since these users cannot create their own games. Actually they can create games, but other players can't see, much less, join them. Full function ality is possible but it depends on the network topology and the type of router used . =================================================================== 8. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP CPU: 1.5Ghz RAM: 512MB Video: 64MB, DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible DirectX: 9.0c or higher DVD-ROM: 2x DVD-ROM or faster Recommended: Operating System: Microsoft Win2000/XP CPU: 2.4GHz RAM: 1GB Video: 128MB, DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible DirectX: 9.0c or higher DVD-ROM: 2x DVD-ROM or faster Internet connection (56K bps or faster) required for multiplayer gameplay. For best multiplayer performance and gameplay experience, a broadband connection (DSL, Cable or Satellite) is recommended. =================================================================== 9. TESTS OF GRAPHIC AND SOUND CARD COMPATIBILITY List of supported graphic and sound cards: Videocards ATI Radeon X800 ATI Radeon 9800 XT ATI Radeon 9800 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9600 XT ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9500 ATI Radeon 9200Pro ATI Radeon 9000Pro ATI Radeon 8500 ATI Radeon 7500 GeForce FX 6800 GeForce FX 5950 GeForce FX 5900 GeForce FX 5800 GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce 4 Ti 4600 GeForce 4 Ti 4400 GeForce 4 Ti 4200 GeForce 4 MX GeForce 3 MB 256 256 128 128 128 128 128 128 128 64 64 256 256 256 128 128 128 128 128 128 128 128 64 Drivers

GeForce 2 Ultra GeForce 2 Ti Matrox Parhelia Sound Cards:

64 64 128

Creative SB Audigy II ZS Creative SB Audigy II Creative SB Audigy II USB Creative SB Audigy LS Creative SB Audigy Creatvie SB Extigy USB Creative SB Live 5.1 Creative SB Live Creative SB 512 Creative SB 128 M-Audi Revolution 7.1 Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Hercules Fortissimo III Hercules Fortissimo II Hercules Muse XL Hercules DigiFire Aopen Cobra AW-840 Aopen Cobra AW-850D Aopen AW-540 NForce 1 NForce 2 Realtek AC97 DRIVER DOWNLOAD SOURCES: 3Dlabs - www.3dlabs.com/ ATI - www.ati.com/de/index.html Canopus - www.canopusgmbh.de/Index_DE.asp/ Gateway 2000 - www.gw2k.com/ Guillemot/Hercules - www.guillemot.com/ I/O Magic - www.iomagic.com/ Jaton - www.jaton.com/ Leadtek - www.leadtek.com/ Matrox - www.matrox.com/ NVIDIA - www.nvidia.com/ S3 Incorporated - www.s3.com/ SiS - www.sis.com.tw/ VIA Technologies - www.viatech.com/ ================================================================================ ===== 10. HINTS AND TIPS - If you have a graphic card with less than 128MB and you experience problems with the game s performance, try to set the animation quality on low (and, optionall y, Shadows as well). The display performance should improve. - During a multiplayer game, don t use the Alt-Tab combination or you ll automatical

ly lose. - In order to play Internet games comfortably and control great masses of forces , you should have 1GB of system memory in your computer. - In order to increase Internet game speed, it s recommended to set your display s creen resolution to 1024 x 768. - In the event of crashes, problems with performance and game loading, check the swap-file settings (the virtual memory swapping file). You can adjust it as follows (Windows XP): Right-click on My Computer and click on the Properties item in the menu. In the Properties window, click on the Advanced tab. In the window that appears, click the Settings button in the Performance section . Click the Advanced tab in the Performance Options window that appears then click on the Change button in the Virtual memory section. In the Virtual Memory window th e system disk it s necessary to set either System managed size or choose Custom Size and enter 3200 and 4400 for the Initial and Maximum sizes. Click Set and restart your computer. Try setting the swap file size to System managed size first, but if this doesn t help use the abovementioned sizes. ================================================================================ ==== 11. SUPPORT Please use the support form at www.cossacks2.com ================================================================================ ===== 12. THANKS: Maruiz "Jarema" Gadek, Sonja Heidelauf, Wolfgang Gaebler, Daniel Grunder, Elmar Grunenberg, Family Heidelauf, Daniel Jnsch, Adrian Alonso, Silvija Svetec, Sebastian Merkel,. ... ================================================================================ ===== 13. CONTACT CDV Software Entertainment AGs Neureuter Str. 37b 76185 Karlsruhe Germany http://www.cdv.de

Tel.: 0049-721-97224-0 Fax: 0049-721-97224-24 Note: Please do not direct support requests to our company address or phone number as staff cannot answer any technical questions. ================================================================================ ===== 14. COPYRIGHT This product uses the unrar.dll library The unrar.dll library is freeware. This means: 1. All copyrights to RAR and the unrar.dll are exclusively owned by the author, Eugene Roshal. 2. The unrar.dll library may be used in any software to handle RAR archives without limitations free of charge. 3. THE RAR ARCHIVER AND THE UNRAR.DLL LIBRARY ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE.

c) COSSACKS-II 2006. All rights reserved. 2006 CDV. All rights reserved. The CDV name and logo are the registered trade marks of CDV Software Entertainme nt AG. All other trade marks are the property of their owners. The product is developed by GSC Game World. Cossacks II: Battle for Europe 2006 GSC World Publishing. The exclusive rights to publish and distribute this product in the CIS belong to GSC World Publishing. ================================================================================ =========