2.0 Installation

TOU is a self-extracting package. Click the packed exe and give the path you want to install the game.

2.1 System Requirements

The minimum system for playing TOU:

  • Pentium 166 MHz
  • 32 megabytes of memory

The recommended system for playing TOU:

  • Pentium 400 MHz (needed for WMA musics and if you want lots of computer pilots in the game)
  • 64 megabytes of memory

2.2 TOU doesn't run well on my machine. What to do?

Well, there are plenty of things to do:

  1. Go to options / audio and turn "allow MP3 / WMA music" to "off". Playing MP3 music needs maybe a 300 MHz processor. Optionally you could just delete the musics in "music"-directory.
  2. Go to options / details & video and turn Line-of-sight "off" from the Line-of-sight: style. Pressing F6 in game will switch between different line-of-sight styles. However, if you play single player on hard skill, you are forced to have line-of-sight turned on.
  3. Go to options / details & video and turn Running water to "slow" or "very slow" or "off".
  4. Go to options / details & video and change the game resolution from the top of the menu. 512 x 384 works fine even with older machines, if your display adapter supports it. 320 x 240 is only acceptable if you play alone, otherwise that resolution is way too small.
  5. Go to options / details & video and turn parallax background to "no" and turn waves to "no" also
  6. Restart your computer and check that there are no other applications running on the background that take much processor usage.
  7. Well, I'm out of tricks. How can you even run Windows on your machine?

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