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All Rights Reserved, Snuff-Designs, Copyright © 1998 - 2006 Tutorials By Clive Ellison Jack Nicklaus 6 Golden Bear Challenge Manual Tutorial The following is a summary of the advice contained at the Activision support website combined with information obtained from posts at the Course Depot forum plus some of my own input. I have incorporated some corrections where I felt the information was misleading. To locate the online manual for Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge - Go to My Computer and right click on the CD drive the disc is in. - Go to the Setup folder. - Go to the JNGBC folder. - Go to the data folder. - Go to the help folder. - Double click on the index.html file and it will bring up the manual. Problems when installing the game If when installing Golden Bear Challenge the CD spins up and nothing ever happens and you cannot access the CD from explorer or from my computer. 1) Check for a 32 bit file system. Right click on the "My computer" icon and select properties from the menu. Click on the performance panel. Look for the line that says "File System" and make sure it says 32 bit to the right of it. If it does not, this could be causing the problem. 2) Check for a possible bad CD. In a case where the CD is damaged, then return to the point of sale for another copy of the game If during the installation Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge freezes. Try the following: -Empty the Temp Folder. -Turn off all background programs except for Systray and Explorer. -Turn down the cache on the CDROM. Also try turning down the CD ROM speed. If the game will not install because the CD is shown as an audio CD then all background applications must be shutdown prior to running the game. Make sure you have 32 bit drivers for your CD-ROM drive. If after installing Golden Bear Challenge and selecting the option to view the readme.txt, the text doesn't appear then you can still access the readme from the Start Bar after the game is installed. Just go to Start>Program Files>Activision>JN6 Golden Bear Challenge>JN6 Golden Bear Challenge Read Me. If you are trying to install Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge to a custom directory and the game will not install then you will have to install the game to the default directory. Occasionally the game has a problem installing to a custom game directory. If when installing Jack Nicklaus 6 Golden Bear Challenge you get a "move data process" error. 1) Check for the minimum drive space needed to play the game. Golden Bear Challenge requires that you have at least 400 MB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files (Minimum Install), plus at least 50 MB, for the Windows swap file. 2) Empty the temp directory. Empty the temp directory by following these instructions. Restart your computer. Double click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and open the following folders in order: C drive-->Windows-->Temp. Delete all the files out of the temp folder. Sometimes there may be some files that cannot be deleted, don't worry about those and delete the rest. This folder is used by some installers for temporary storage of files needed to install an application and when it gets full it can cause other installers not to work properly. After that, while still in the Windows folder, look for a "Temporary Internet Files" folder and delete the files from that folder as well. Don't neglect to restart your computer before this step, if you do not restart you may risk corrupting a program that is using the temp folder. Restart the computer and then empty the temp folder. Empty the Recycle Bin at this time. 3) Copy all the contents of the CD to a folder on the desktop and install it from there. 4) Check for 32 bit CD-ROM drivers. Right click on the "My computer" icon and select properties from the menu. Click on the performance panel. Look for the line that says "File System" and make sure it says 32 bit to the right of it. If it does not, this could be causing the problem. 5) The CD may be damaged. Check it and you might want to consider taking it back the store for a replacement copy. If following installation the game will not run. 1) Check to see if Windows 98 Second Edition (or higher) is installed on the PC. If so check to see if the game has been loaded to the specified folder by using Windows Explorer to locate it. If it hasn't then reinstall the game but push no during the installation when it asks you to install Directx 6, push no when it asks you to put an icon on the desktop, and finally put a check in the box that says view readme.txt. Finish the installation and the game should work. These steps are needed to overcome a fault with the Golden Bear Challenge installation routine that occurs with the more recent versions of Windows. The installation appears to work but the game files are not loaded to the hard drive. People are regularly finding this problem and the steps defined above are essential to get a successful installation. 2) You may not have 32-bit CD Rom drivers. To check for 32-bit CD rom drivers, right click on "My Computer" and select properties. Then, click on the Performance tab. Next to File System, it should say 32- bit. If it does not, then you will need to contact your CD-ROM manufacturer for the latest drivers for your CD- Rom. 3) If the game indicates "could not find sounds.sts" error or "could not find home.sts" errors and the Windows 98 Second edition installation problem is not the reason then it is possible that you have chosen the medium or minimum install. You will need the CD in the drive, and these errors or similar ones may occur if the CD is not 4) If the game indicates that the file "ingame.sts" is missing and the Windows 98 installation problem is not the reason then copy the file "ingame.sts" from the CD located in the Setup\JNGBC\Data folder to C:\Program Files\Activision\JN6 - Golden Bear Challenge\Data directory on your hard drive. If this file is already there and it asks you to overwrite it say yes. Then try the game again and it should work. This same approach could also be used for other files if similar messages appear. 5) There are problems with running the game on Windows 2000. The game will appear to play but will frequently exit by crashing to the desktop. It has been suggested that saving regularly during play will avoid this problem which is caused by an incompatibilty with the Windows 2000 operating system for which the game was not designed. 6) If you get an error message stating "no valid combination of display settings found." Make sure that your desktop can be set to 800X600 and High Color 16. If it cannot, then the game will not work. Golden Bear Challenge needs to be played at 800X600 and High Color 16. If the monitor or display card cannot handle this, then the game will not work at all. Consult with your video card manufacturer or monitor manufacturer for further assistance. 7) If you installed a Minimum (or Medium) install and but after a few moments the game is interrupted by the splash screen then to fix this bypass the Auto-run feature. When you put the CD in the drive, hold down the Shift key until the blinking light on your CD-ROM stops, usually about 10-30 seconds. To turn Auto-run off (this means no splash screens will pop up on any game until re-enabled) go through this process. Double-click My Computer Double-click Control Panel Double-click on System Click on Device Manager Click on the + next to CD-ROM to view the drive Click on the CD-ROM and click on the Properties button Click on the Settings tab and uncheck the Auto-Insert box Apply and OK. Reboot to have the settings take affect If you insert the CD, Realplayer launches and starts recording the tracks from the CD. Disable the Realplayer StartCenter. All background applications must be shutdown prior to running the game. Patching and Uninstalling the game Uninstalling the game If for any reason you need to uninstall GBC your save games and any user made custom courses that were installed should remain in their folders and will not be deleted. Game patch If you can't patch the game make sure the game is not already patched. You can get the patch from here at Golden Bears Den GBC Patch and make sure you do not have any programs running when the patch is downloading, as they may corrupt the patch. Uninstall, delete the game folder and then reinstall the game and then the patch. To unistall the patch for Golden Bear Challenge you must uninstall the game itself and then install just the game. Problems with running the game If Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge locks up in Multiplayer when the host leaves then ensure all players have been updated to DirectX version 6.1 or higher. Direct play was fixed in the later versions. If the game is too dark then there are no in-game gamma controls.