Medal of Honor.

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Here is the official Medal of Honor readme file.

Medal of Honor™ Readme
v1.0


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Table Of Contents
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1. Minimum and Recommended PC Configurations
2. Installation
3. DirectX
4. Uninstall & Deauthentation
5. Default Graphics settings
6. Peripherals
7. Troubleshooting
8. Help
9. Legal
10. Special Thanks


Thank you for purchasing Medal of Honor. For the latest information on the game, please visit: http://www.medalofhonor.com


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1. Minimum and Recommended PC Configurations
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Medal of Honor requires at the following minimum configuration:
Operating System Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7
Processor Pentium D, 3.2GHz / Core 2 Duo, 2.0GHz / Athlon 64 X2
Memory 2GB RAM
Video Card Video card must be 256MB or more and contain these chipsets or better: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT ; ATI X1900. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.
HDD Space 9GB
Soundcard Soundcard with DirectX 9.0c compatibility
DirectX DirectX 9.0c
Disc Drive 8x or faster CD/DVD Drive

The following configuration is recommended to run Medal of Honor:
Operating System Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7
Processor QuadCore 2.0Ghz
Memory 2GB RAM+
Video Card A video card with 512MB of VRAM and one of the following chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce GTX260; ATI Raedeon 4870
HDD Space 9GB
Soundcard Soundcard with DirectX 10 compatibility
DirectX DirectX 10
Disc Drive 16X CD/DVD Drive


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2. Installation
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NOTE: Medal of Honor will only install and run on machines installed with Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7.

To install from the Medal of Honor DVD:
1. Start your machine and wait for the Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 operating system to load.

2. Place the Medal of Honor DVD in the DVD drive.

3. Windows will automatically detect the DVD and launch the autorun options, from which the user can select to begin the installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Medal of Honor. If needed, DirectX 9.0c will be installed or upgraded during the game installation.

4. The installer will prompt for the CD Key which is provided either in your confirmation email, your game manual/packaging, or game card.

5. It is optional to install Punkbuster. For online play we strongly recommend installing Punkbuster since it’s required in order to join Punkbuster enabled servers. Only Punkbuster enabled servers will report your stats, so in order to progress in ranks, receive unlocks and gain stats you will need to have Punkbuster running and play on Punkbuster enabled servers.

6. The installer will prompt how you want to authenticate your copy of Medal of Honor. Disc authentication requires the Medal of Honor disc in the drive to be able to play. Online authentication requires an internet connection but doesn’t require the Medal of Honor disc in the drive to be able to play.

Note: With online authentication you get an unlimited number of activations. Activation happens automatically the first time you run the game on a new machine. Once a machine has been activated you can play without an online connection. You are allowed to activate the game on up to 5 new machines in any given 60 day time period. When you go to activate on a new machine, you can do so on that machine as long as you have activated on less than 5 new machines in the last 60 days. Effectively, for every activation on a new machine, 60 days later your number of available activations will increase by 1. Previous activations are never lost. At any time, including if you have currently run up against your limit, you can deactivate a currently activated machine to reclaim that activation for use on a different machine.


7. For XP users, the installation program adds the program group Electronic Arts/Medal of Honor to your Start/Programs menu, and a shortcut to your desktop (optional). Click on this shortcut or alternatively click on the start button on your Windows task bar. Under Programs/Electronic Arts/Medal of Honor select "Medal of Honor" to play. For Vista/Win 7 users, the title will be added to the Games Explorer. From the Start menu, go to All Programs/Games and run Games Explorer.

Note: If the Auto insert notification feature has been disabled or the DVD is not recognized, run AutoRun.exe from the root directory of the DVD to begin the installation program.


For Medal of Honor Digital Download installation:
Please contact the digital retailer through whom you purchased this game for instructions on how to install the game or how to download and reinstall another copy of the game.

NOTE: It is optional to install Punkbuster. For online play we strongly recommend installing Punkbuster since it’s required in order to join Punkbuster enabled servers. Only Punkbuster enabled servers will report your stats, so in order to progress in ranks, receive unlocks and gain stats you will need to have Punkbuster running and play on Punkbuster enabled servers.

Note: If you’d like additional information about Medal of Honor as well as tips please visit http://www.medalofhonor.com, http://www.ea.com or http://www.eastore.com.


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3. DirectX
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For your convenience, we have included DirectX 9.0c in the Medal of Honor installation package.

a) Installing DirectX 9.0c manually
Medal of Honor comes with DirectX 9.0c and will install it during installation. If you would like to install it manually, browse to the Medal of Honor installation package folder, open the "\DirectX" folder and click the on DXSETUP.exe

b) DirectX 9.0c and supported hardware
It is highly recommended that you ensure that your computer's components are utilizing the most recent DirectX 9.0c compatible software drivers. Please consult your card manufacturer for their newest drivers.


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4. Uninstall & Deauthentation
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To uninstall Medal of Honor, click on the Start menu and select Settings\Control Panel (XP) or Control Panel (Vista/Win 7). Now select Add or Remove Programs (XP) or Programs and Features (Vista/Win 7). Scroll down the list until you see Medal of Honor, select it and click on Change/Remove (XP) or Uninstall (Vista/Win 7) to uninstall.

If you've chosen online authentication during the Medal of Honor installation the uninstall process will automatically deauthenticate the system and update your available licenses accordingly. This process requires an internet connection to be present.

To deauthenticate a machine's online authentication without un-installing: For XP Users, From the Start menu, go to All Programs/Electronic Arts/Medal of Honor and select "Medal of Honor(tm) - Deauthorize this machine". For Vista/Win 7 users, From the Start menu, go to All Programs/Games and run Games Explorer. Right click the Medal of Honor icon and select "Medal of Honor(tm) - Deauthorize this machine".


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5. Default Graphics settings
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The first time Medal of Honor is started, a system check is performed and default levels are set for the options on the Graphics menu. These default levels are set to provide the best game play experience possible depending on the hardware detected in your system.

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6. Peripherals
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The following peripherals are compatible with Medal of Honor:
Microsoft Windows compatible keyboard, mouse and joystick (Microsoft Windows compatible joystick works in Multiplayer only).

ATI Eyefinity


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7. Troubleshooting/Known Issues
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Computer hardware manufacturers are constantly updating their driver software so that their hardware can play the latest software programs with the best possible performance. If your system is not using the latest drivers please consider obtaining an updated driver. Doing this may also give you benefits such as increased performance, the elimination of a technical problem and new component features.

It is not recommended to use Alt+Tab or Alt+Enter commands in-game, as game functionality may be interrupted.

If the game audio sounds unbalanced, please ensure that any audio enhancements available to your sound card are disabled.

ATI Catalyst Control Center users who have deselected the Anti-Aliasing option "Use Application Settings" should disable Anti-Aliasing in the Medal of Honor Video settings.

It is highly recommended that you ensure that your computer's components are utilizing the most recent DirectX 9.0c compatible software drivers. Please consult your card manufacturer for their newest drivers.

You can change what DirectX version the game will use in the settings.ini. Default value is DxVersion=auto you can change it to either 9, 10 or 11 (DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 are only supported in the multiplayer portion of Medal of Honor) . The auto setting chooses the highest DX version possible on your system. The settings.ini file is located in your documents folder in a sub folder \EA Games\Medal of Honor\Multiplayer. You can access it by opening an Explorer window and clicking on My Documents (XP) or Documents (Vista/Win 7). Open the Medal of Honor\Multiplayer folder and edit the settings.ini file. Please note that the setting.ini file will be created the first time you run Medal of Honor.

Players using a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card and Windows Vista/7 who are playing in 5.1 surround sound may not experience sound from the center speaker.

Players using a Hercules Gamesurround Fortissmo II sound card and Windows XP who are playing in 5.1 surround sound may not experience sound from the center speaker.

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8. Help
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If the above does not resolve your problem then please use the EA Technical Support which in XP is situated in Start Menu/Programs/Electronic Arts/Medal of Honor/Technical Support, and for Vista/Win 7 users in Start Menu/All Programs/Games and running Games Explorer, then right click the Medal of Honor icon and selecting Technical Support from the drop-down menu.


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9. Legal
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© 2010 Electronic Arts Inc. EA, the EA logo, Medal of Honor and Danger Close are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. The DICE logo is a trademark of EA Digital Illusions CE AB. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Unreal® is a registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc.
Unreal® Engine, Copyright 1998-2010 Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved.

This product includes code licensed from Nvidia.

MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON multimedia.

Zlib 1.2.3 © 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

Uses Bink Video Technology Copyright © 1997-2010 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.

Uses Granny Animation. Copyright © 1999-2010 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.

Havok™; ©Copyright 1999-2010 Havok.com Inc. (and its Licensors). All Rights Reserved. See www.havok.com for details.

This product contains software technology licensed from On2 Technologies, Inc. On2 technology © 2003 On2 Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Portions of this software product uses Scaleform GFx © 2007 Scaleform Corporation. All rights reserved.

Kynapse AI Technology © 2003-2007 Kynapse. All rights reserved.

Portions of this software utilize SpeedTree technology. © 2002 Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. All rights reserved.

Speex Copyright 2002-2003, Jean-Marc Valin/Xiph.Org Foundation

Ogg Vorbis libs © 2010, Xiph. Org Foundation

Convex Decomposition Copyright © 2004 Open Dynamics Framework Group, www.physicstools.org. All rights reserved.

SDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer Copyright © 1997-2006 Sam Lantinga

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10. Special Thanks
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Danger Close Games: The team would like to thank their family and friends. Without their support, this game would not have been possible.

A special thank you to the friends and fans of DICE for your continued feedback and support of our titles.