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CHARIOTS
CHRISTMAS DEMO DOWNLOAD
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Thank you for your participation and interest!
You may Download our 2007 Christmas Demo for FREE right here!
Download the CHARIOTS Christmas Demo
NEW INSTALL FILE AVAILABLE as of 12-31-07 - the desktop bug has been fixed.
Chariots Christmas Demo - CLICK HERE 138.87 MB compressed.
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ChariotsChristmasDemoSetup.exe
(Note: this Alternate Download link will take you off the Visions website to the FileFront hosting site.)
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First you want to be sure you have downloaded the game. Chariots Christmas Demo
Click on the link. Select SAVE. Remember the directory where you saved it at. If you UNcheck the little box that says "Close this window when complete" then it will give you and option to OPEN the file after it is done downloading.
Once you have finished downloading the file, you will want to run it. If you did not use the OPEN option from the download window you will need to go to the folder on your computer where you saved the file to open it. This will install the game to your hard drive.
It is a self-extracting installation file. Just follow the instructions, and it will install the program to your START PROGRAMS menu for you.
To play the game just go to START and PROGRAMS and select the CHARIOTS Christmas Demo from the menu.
SPOILER WARNING!
SPOILER WARNING!
This video shows the whole game.
If you would like to experience the thrill of discovering the ending for yourself the first time, Download the game first! This video is for those viewers who are unable to play the game due to technical difficulties or unmet system requirements.
The Chariots Christmas Demo is a single player racing game. There is an NPC that will spawn at the starting line to race against. If you se "Position 1/2" then you are in first place. if you see "Position 2/2" then you are in last place. It is a maze race, meant to be challenging! (If we wanted to make it easy we could have just left it as a simple oval, but the unanimous consensus of our preliminary testers was that it was too easy. So we made it more challenging.) The goal is to find your way through all the distractions, to discover the true gift of Christmas! There is one loop that takes you back to the beginning (not the end!) so beware! I hope you have fun. Merry Christmas!
The default movement keys are:
W- forward
S- backward
A-strafe left
D-strafe right
but you can press CTRL-O at any time to change the default keybindings.
SPACE - jump
TAB - change to 3rd person view
RIGHT-Mouse-Button CLICK & HOLD - to look around.
If you mount a horse, you press the forward key to move forward at full speed.
Use the Mouse to roll forward or backward to control your speed.
M- to dismount.
ESC - If you need to exit before you finish the race. The game does exit automatically when you finish.
A Windows operating system is required, XP reccomended.
Pentium 1 GHz minimum - 2 GHz reccomended
512 MB RAM minimum- 2 GB reccomended
DirectX 9c, April 2007 or newer required
A video card that supports per-pixel shader graphics is required.
344 MB free space minimum on your hard drive (for both the installation file and the game after it is installed).
We do not endorse any one card or manufacturer over another, but the following cards are reccomended by wikipedia as supporting per-pixel shader graphics under DX 9.0c drivers. Please use this list as a guide, not an absolute. No gurantee is either written or implied, this is just meant as a helpful suggestion.
- * nVidia GeForce 6 Series
- * nVidia GeForce 7 Series
- * ATI Radeon X1K series
- * Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 (Intel® GMA 3000)
To make sure your computer is up to date try these things:
To play the demo you will need to make sure you have a version of DirectX 9c from at least April 2007, or later.
Error message: failed to open main.cs
Solution A: Make sure your shortcut is pointing to the right location. It should be pointing to the folder on your hard drive where the game is installed.
To find out where your icon is looking for the game, RIGHT CLICK on the desktop icon. Select PROPERTIES. If you used the default installation location it will look like this:
TARGET: "C:\Program Files\Chariots Christmas Demo\Chariots.exe"
START IN: "C:\Program Files\Chariots Christmas Demo"
If your Target: or Start In: boxes are blank, you should type in the correct location as indicated.
Solution B: Install the latest DirectX drivers for your operating system. You can get the newest version (November 2007) from Microsoft.
If you have updated your DirectX drivers and it still gives you a driver error, you can download the drivers we used in making the game here:
DirectXApril2007.rar This is in RAR compression format.
You can download WinRar for free from the WinRar website
You will also need to be sure that you have updated your video drivers for your video card to the newest possible drivers. This is just a simple download and install from your graphics chipset vendor. Popular graphics cards are listed below. If you don't know what kind of graphics card you have you can click on START then RUN and in the little box type DXDIAG and it will run a diagnostic tool which tells you everything about your computer setup.
For an Nvidia graphics card you can download the latest drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
For an ATI graphics card you can download the latest drivers here: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
For Intel GMA drivers you can search the Intel website here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx?lang=eng
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