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Testing FAZ Beta

This entry is intended to help you get the latest allegiance R5 build running so you can help test FAZ beta. To simplify the instructions, the entry assumes you don't even have the release build (regular) Allegiance installed on your computer.

Getting Started

Downloads

This section lists all the downloads you may need to run the latest allegiance build for FAZ beta.

Visual C++ libraries

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a5c84275-3b97-4ab7-a40d-3802b2af5fc2

DirectX libraries

DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3

Video card drivers

Use the most recent versions with FAZ Beta.

ATI

 http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pages/psearch.aspx?type=2.4.1&contentType=GPU%20Download%20Detail

Nvidia

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

Intel

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/

Choose Graphics->Products->Desktop graphics controllers or Laptop graphics controllers

Allegiance client

http://fazdev.alleg.net/FAZ/Allegiance_R5beta_090724.zip

Setup

This section provides instructions to configure your computer to run the latest allegiance build for FAZ beta.

Files & Folders

Extract the client and artwork downloads into a new empty folder.

When you extract the artwork zip file it will create the artwork sub directory and dev sub directory for you.

Do not create an artwork folder, do not create a dev folder.

Simply extract both the client zip and the artwork zip to the same folder, it can be wherever you want.

Windows registry

Open regedit, in Registry Editor:

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.

From the menu bar choose Edit->New->Key. Type Microsoft Games then press enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games.

From the menu bar choose Edit->New->Key. Type Allegiance then press enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Allegiance.

From the menu bar choose Edit->New->Key. Type 1.1 then press enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Allegiance\1.1.

From the menu bar choose Edit->New->String Value. Type ArtPath then press enter.

Double left click your new ArtPath entry (in the right-hand side pane), type the full path to your artwork folder that was created when you extracted the zip file. i.e. C:\test\artwork (note: no trailing slash) then press enter.

From the menu bar choose Edit->New->String Value. Type CfgFile then press enter.

Double left click your new CfgFile entry (in the right-hand side pane), type http://fazdev.alleg.net/FAZ/FAZR5.cfg then press enter.

Close regedit.

Troubleshooting

This section provides tips for common errors when following these instructions.

ASGS

It is not necessary to use ASGS when testing FAZ Beta nor is it recommended.

Artwork

It is highly recommended that you have "clean" artwork. Clean artwork being a fresh artwork folder found in the downloads section above. Teating FAZ Beta with custom mods, chat packs, etc. can have unexpected results and may prevent you from launching the game, connecting to the lobby, joining a server and piloting/commanding.

Playing the game

This section gives you background on what's changed and provides instructions for testing specific issues.

Change log

The list of changes can be found here:

http://freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/R5#Changelog

Testing tips

Use multiple clients

Create a shortcut to launch Allegiance with the -multi and -windowed command-line switches. After creating a shortcut, right click on it then left click properties. Append (add to the end) of the target -windowed -multi after the quotes (if any).