          Installation Notes for the Flight Unlimited 3D Blaster Patch  

This special version of the Flight Unlimited patch was created specifically to allow Flight
to run on Creative Labs 3D Blaster (VLB) based computer systems that have the Intel 
Configuration Manager installed.

This patch contains following bug fixes and enhancements:

1.  Updated Sound Blaster drivers that allow Flight Unlimited to 
    recognize a wider range of Sound Blaster compatible sound cards.

2.  New code which eliminates graphical trails caused by mouse movement on
    the screen.

3.  FBO travel bug fixed.  On some machines, if you didn't fly a plane while
    in a terrain area you couldn't travel back to your previous FBO.

4.  New code for joystick hat calibration which should fix the spinning
    cockpit and views caused by improper hat calibration with Thrustmaster
    & Logitech Wingman joysticks.

5.  New code for joystick calibration which should fix joystick non-detection
    and also joystick miscalibration. 

6.  Throttle calibration bug.  On several combinations of game card, machine
    and joystick, the joystick throttle calibration only gave you from 50% to
    max.  This should be fixed.

7.  New code which traps and avoids the divide overflow error caused by old
    mouse drivers.  Use MS Mouse driver 8.20a or higher.

8.  There are two fixes to the video code.  The first caused Flight to not
    recognize certain video cards as being  VESA 2.0 compliant.  The second
    kept the palette from being initialized correctly on certain video cards.
    Please note that the univbe driver supplied with Flight Unlimited will
    *not* work with the Matrox Millennium video card.  If you chose to install
    univbe then you will need to either re-install and answer no when asked
    if you would like to install univbe, or start Flight by typing  "flight
    +nounivbe" (minus the quotes, of course), then press enter.

9.  Starting Flight by typing "flight +nothrottle" (minus the quotes) at
    the command line or putting "nothrottle" on a blank line in you
    flite.cfg file kills the joystick throttle.  If you don't want joystick
    throttle or if you're using 2 joysticks, one as main control, one as
    rudder, you won't get throttle changes.

10. People having headset detection problems particularly of the virtual i/o
    eyeglasses should NOT run from windows 95.  Also, if the system has
    problems detecting the virtual i/o you should add +vio at the command
    line or add "vio" to your flite.cfg.  This prevents flight from trying to
    autodetect any other kind of headset which appears to cause problems on
    some machines.

	INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Make sure patch diskette is in the A: drive of your computer
2.  At a dos prompt, switch to the flight directory on your hard drive.
    The dos command for this would be: cd\flight <press enter>
3.  Copy the file fupat3D.exe into the flight directory.  The dos command for
    this would be: copy a:\fupat3D.exe <press enter>
4.  Type "fupat3D.exe" (minus the quotes) <press enter>
5.  Type "patch" (minus the quotes) <press enter>
6.  Type "go" (minus the quotes) <press enter>

The patch is now installed and you can start Flight as you normally would.

                               OPERATION NOTES	

It is a good idea after installing the patch to recalibrate the joystick.
An easy way to do this is to press alt-j from the FBO.  This will take you
into the joystick calibration routine.  If you still have problems
calibrating your joystick please hold it in place for 1 second after you push
it's button in each of the positions you are asked to move it to during the
calibration procedure.
If you have a Wingman Extreme select Thrustmaster in the joystick calibration
box.  You will be asked to move your joystick hat to all 4 corners.  Please
move the hat slowly and make sure to move it all the way to the corners.
CH joysticks use a different method of sending hat data and will calibrate
automatically.

You should make sure that the throttle is not pushed all the way away from
you when you start Flight.  That can result in the throttle not being
detected at all.  Pull it all the way towards you, or center it before
running Flight.

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