**********SEASON 2004 FOR EA SPORTS'/ISI'S F1 Challenge 99-02  (RH04)***********
                                     EMACF1.com

- All textures and icons        Ralph Hummerich
- All 3D vehicle modelling      Ivo Franic (except McLaren by Daniel
                                Segginger & Ivo Franic, Minardi by
                                CJChris & Ivo Franic)
- All Bspec cars		Koen Calleyl & Ivo Franic (except Jordan
				& Minardi by CJChris & Ivo Franic)
- 3D helmet modelling           Björn Plutka & Matthias Marquardt
- AI, AIW lines, AI driver      daHas
  performance, physics, new
  default setups, damage
  system and additional audio           
- Menues & engine.ini files     Godzila
- Menu graphics                 Godzila & Ralph Hummerich
- Tracks			Barrybumhead, Tantra (2003), Watcher & nea
- Starting grid AIW and         DB. & Matthias Marquardt
  starting grid mark update
- All promotion render images,  F1Racer
  wallpapers and ingame menu
  renders
- final tweaking, additional    Matthias Marquardt
  UV mapping, packaging,
  finalizing and game
  implementation
                                   EXPANSION PACK VERSION 1.05 
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THIS IS NOT AN EA PRODUCT. IT IS NEITHER SUPPORTED NOR INITIATED BY EA OR ISI
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL UPDATE
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This package provides all chassis and livery versions of the F1 Season 2004 as
seen during the complete Season 2004
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***********************************PLEASE NOTE**********************************
Because it is not possible to create dynamic driver switches during a running
season, we had to make some compromises. So each team still has the drivers who
made the most races for it; this means Ralf Schumacher is driving each race for
Williams, as well as DaMatta for Toyota and Pantano for Jordan.

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Developer notes:
One of the main priorities while creating this package was, to keep playabilty
as good as possible on most of computer systems, low spec and high end
(especially regarding 3rd party track graphics updates). So there were some
compromises neccessary regarding polycount . Of course it would have been
possible to create smoother models with more polygons and sharper, more detailed
textures with bigger filesizes, but we decided to do it the way we did to ensure
that this package will run within quite similar specifications as the original
game. We also didn't use the bmp->jpg trick to achieve high res textures with
small file sizes, because there was an unacceptable loss in quality, especially
on clean colors.
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System requirements:
Same as F1 Challenge 99-02 plus additional 2.6 GB free disk space on the drive
where the game is installed. [You really need one point six gigabytes !]

What it does content:
- all cars (liveries and shapes) of the Formula 1 season 2004
- all driver helmets (liveries and shapes) of season 2004
  (except Sparco model)
- the pitcrews of season 2004
- the driversuits of season 2004

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THIS PACKAGE WILL ONLY WORK WITH A CLEAN INSTALLATION OF F1 Challenge 99-02
(with or without) RH03 installed. RH SEASON 2004 BASIC SET MUST BE INSTALLED.
RH SEASON 2004 TRACKPACK RECOMMENDED
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IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TRIED TO PUT CARS OR TRACKS OF ANY 2004-SEASON-PACK INTO
YOUR F1 Challenge 99-02 GAME, THIS PACKAGE MIGHT NOT WORK !!!!!!
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          This package will NOT work with F1 2001 and F1 2002
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Installation
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just start the '2004rh_4_f1c99-02_expansion.exe' (make sure that all the 
'2004rh_4_f1c99-02_expansion.c*' are located in the same directory.) Select your
F1C99-02 installation directory (if it is not automatically selected already)
and press the 'Next' button. After the Installer have copied all files to your
HD a batch will be executed that will take care of copying the apropriate files
to the different directories (that can take a while since 2.6 GB have to be
written).

Running
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After all files have been copied by the Installer you simply can start your F1
Challenge '99-'02 game. When going to the season & car selection a new Season
2004 Icon will be available. By selecting this icon you can choose any Season
2004 car.

VERY IMPORTANT: SET THE NUMBERS OF AI PLAYERS to 19 BEFORE you start a Season
2004 RACE! You can do that via the game options in the rules section. Or you
simply set the AI number in the new menues bottom line in the track selection
screen! DON'T FORGET: For the Season 99-02 21 AI Players are required. 

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ADVANCED USER SECTION [HighPerfPC GEN File]
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In our RH04 season update we have provided you with the option of using our
specially adjusted GEN file for improved visuals in the game. This section is
only for those who understand what they are doing and realise the performance
hit this will make.

By default our update will use the file named 'Generic_F1_2004RH.gen' for
generating the Level of Detail (LOD) shapes. This default file is identical to
the standard F1 Challenge 99-02 file in terms of LOD bias settings so that the
performance of the RH03 update should be almost identical to that of the
standard game. If you are satisfied with the performance and visual quality at
these standard settings you can freely leave it and not bother with this extra
tweak. For those who would prefer to have the car LOD shapes switch further from
the viewer and thereby improving the overall look of the cars please read on.

In our additional GEN file named 'Generic_F1_2004RH_HighPerfPC.gen' we have
adjusted the distances at which the LOD bias shapes are drawn. We have done this
only for the MAX opponent level of detail setting, so in order for this
additional GEN file to work as described you MUST have the Opponent level of
detail set to FULL in the game options menu. The player level of detail should
also be set to FULL.

The benefit of this additional GEN file is that the opponent cars will switch
from A (max detail) to B (high detail) and to C (medium detail) LOD shapes
further from the players view, and therefore decrease or completely eliminate
the annoying 'jumping' effect as the shapes switch.

The price you will pay for this improved visual quality will be lower frame
rates during races, and especially at the starts. Your game will in effect be
drawing more detailed 3D objects for longer periods. If no opponent cars are
visible on screen there should be no difference in performance between the extra
GEN file and the game default. This will mean that racing with one or two cars
directly ahead of the player should have a very minimal frame rate hit, but
during race starts where a lot of cars are very close together the performance
hit will be more noticeable. You have been warned!

The exact frame rate hit that you can expect is impossible to judge as more
powerful PCs will handle it more easily than slower ones. On a relatively
powerful PC (AMD 3000+ with ATi Radeon 9700 at 1280x960 4xFSAA 8xAniso) with all
details in the game on the highest settings except shadows which are on Medium
(the shadows are a huge frame rate killer on the highest setting) the
performance drop is from 47fps to 40fps at the back of a full grid. It is a
bigger drop from 70fps to 42fps if no FSAA or Anisotropic filtering is used as
then the graphics card is not the bottleneck. Your results will of course vary
greatly, and that is why we suggest you try it for yourselves.

To use this extra GEN file all you have to do is rename it to
Generic_F1_2004RH.gen. Please make a back up of the original
Generic_F1_2004RH.gen file before you do this so that you can go back to it if
you find the performance hit too great.

We also STRONGLY suggest that you don't change the LODMultiplier values in the
Default.cfg file (located in your \Save folder). The default.cfg file can also
be used to change the LOD distances for specific cameras, simply by changing the
LODMultiplier value. This updated HighPerfPC GEN file was made with the
LODMultiplier set to 1 and we suggest you leave the default value of 1 for all
cameras. Increasing this number will only make the LOD switching take place even
further from the player and cause an even greater performance hit without
bringing any noticeable visual improvement.

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Problems & Fixes:
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Known problems:
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- IF you have no tracks which are selectable (or the game hangs up after you
  have selected a track) then the BATCH file which should be automatically
  executed after the installation was not successful. This might happen, if you
  DID NOT install the season 2004 addon into your main 'F1 Challenge 99-02'
  directory.

- Because some steering wheels /dashboards have been updated, Sauber, Minardi,
  McLaren and BAR will have WHITE Indicator LED's [Speed, Gear etc...]. We also
  do not like this very much - but we haven't found a way to get different
  FONTREAD.BMP files loaded for the different teams. So if you drive frequently
  one of the mentioned teams above and you would like to have red colored
  indicator LED's, then you can copy the file 'FONTREAD.BMP'  [located in the
  2004 BAR, McLaren, Minardi and Sauber folders] into the '\SeasonData\Vehicles'
  directory (go into your 'F1 Challenge 99-02' directory first!). When you want
  to drive another team, then the indicator LED's will not be colored right as
  long as you will have not delete the FONTREAD.BMP from the
  '\SeasonData\Vehicles' directory again.

- Pit garages: The garages work well on all tracks with the garages right
  handed. If the garages are lefthanded (E.g. Magny Cours) the details positions
  are a bit dearranged. This is because of the mapping of the garages. If you
  don't like this at all, you can restore the default garages by copying the
  file "logomap.MAS" from your game CD and overwrite the "Logomap.MAS" of your
  game installation on your HD. This file is located in the
  \Season Data\Circuits\Common folder.

- If the AI-Drivers get disqualified during Qualifying: make sure that the
  'No AI Control' option in your plr file is set to '0' [No AI Control="0"] To
  check this do the following: 1) Go to your 'F1 Challenge 99-02' Game directory
  2) Open the folder called 'Save' 3) Search for a folder that have the name of
  your Driver and open this folder [normally there is only one folder with your
  player name] 4) in the 'YourPlayerName' directory you will find a file called
  'YourPlayerName'.PLR 5) open this file with your windows Notepad or another
  text editor 6) search for: 'No AI Control' 7) check that it look like this
  No AI Control="0"

- IF You can not enable the Mirrors (they are BLACK) & Of course, the Mirrors =
  'On' in the graphic options AND you have a Nvidea video card - make sure to
  update your drivers to: Nvidia Det. drivers. 44.85 - that should solve your
  problem. [Thanks to F1Racer]

Known bugs:
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None, it has been tested over and over again. Please make sure that you followed
the installation guide exactly - Thanks in Advance

Support:
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If you need any help with this Package or having trouble with the installation
or running this Package, then please visit our forum where we can ensure, that
your question will be answered. Please use the SEARCH function of the Forum to
look if your problem might be already reported or even solved. The Forum can be
reached via http://www.emacf1.com/forum/index.html

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Final Words
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Credits:
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- JLS, Watcher, Barrybumhead, Uitko, BeAsT, DB., Dr.Evil (our beta testing crew)
- Alex and Doug from www.SimHQ.com
- Prozac (for the permission to use this tires as base in 2003)
- Goly52 (for the Season 2003 driver announcment files from DaMatta)
- Tijl Deutekom
- Honda F1 Press Office

Special Thanks to:
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- Marc Aarts: Nothing of this would have been possible without his extraordinary
  work
- F1Racer for his awesome renders of the cars that showed us some errors on the
  cars

and to all the people who have support us during the last year

We hope you will enjoy this package
Have fun

Happy racing
Ralph Hummerich,
Matthias Marquardt, 01.04.2005

This is not an EA Sports/ISI-product.

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License
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1) USAGE
The use of this package is FREE for everybody with one exception: People who
have already created (or will create in the future) any tool, MOD or any other
kind of useful ADDON for the SimRacing community and have (or will) demand a fee
for using this software, this package is also NOT FREE.
We expect that you as a creator (or member of a creator team) agree to swap our
work with each other. With other words we will get your work also for FREE. We
think this is just a fair deal. If you can not agree to this contact us via the
following email address: gamers4gamers[at]emacf1[dot]com or please delete this
Season 2004 Package from your hardware.

2) ENVIROMENT of USE
It's not allowed to use this Package [or parts from it (e.g. any Shapes)] in any
'commercial' Environment. A commercial Environment is e.g. a racing league that
demands an amount of money from the participants of the league or a place where
certain hardware is installed and the access to this hardware is not for free.

The use of the Package on Systems for that the users (players) have to pay any
amount of money is prohibited.

If you are still interested to use this Season 2004 Set (or parts from it) in
what we call a 'commercial' environment please contact us via email
[mailto:license[at]emacf1[dot]com] in order to arrange the appropriate conditions.

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author will not be held responsible for any losses incurred, either directly or
indirectly by the use of this program.


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Contact-Info
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web:
Ralph Hummerich:
http://www.emacf1.com/rh
rhummerich[at]debitel[dot]net

Ivo Franic:
http://www.emacf1.com/ivo
ivo[at]emacf1[dot]com

forum/support:
http://www.emacf1.com/forum

email:
feedback[at]emacf1[dot]com