You’re Ben, beaten, framed for a murder, and left to rot on the roadside. Time to strap on your leathers, kickstart your Mac, and embark on LucasArts most action-packed, animated heavy metal adventure to date.
This demonstration version of Full Throttle challenges you to solve two of the game’s many puzzles, and gives you a taste of what it takes to fight hand-to-hand against rival gang members on the old Mine Road. If you've enjoyed playing the demonstration version of Full Throttle and would like to order the full game, please check with your local software retailer or call 1-800-98-LUCAS.
Topics
Controls
Solutions to Common Problems
Technical Support
Controls
Controlling Ben in the game is very straightforward. To walk Ben around, simply click the mouse where you want to go. To interact with objects, move the cursor until the crosshairs get red borders on them, and then press and hold the mouse button. As you hold down the mouse button, an interface will appear, telling you the name of the object you have selected. To interact with that object, simply move the cursor over the appopriate portion of the interface and release the mouse button.
For example, to talk to the bartender, press and hold the mouse button while the cursor is over him; then move the cursor over the skull’s mouth on the interface until the tongue pops out. Release the mouse button and the action will be initiated.
Controls on the old Mine Road are a little different. To swerve your bike left and right, slide the mouse in the appropriate direction. To attack with the currently selected weapon, click the mouse button. To switch weapons, press the TAB key repeatedly until the weapon you want is displayed in the box at the lower-left corner of the screen.
Solutions to Common Problems
I’m sometimes seeing a strange graphic corruption during the mine road.
In certain cases, if you are using a video mode that is too slow for your system, you may see a sort of blocky corruption on the video. This is most likely to happen during the more demanding portions of the game, in particular the mine road action sequences. To alleviate the problem, choose a faster video mode from the Video menu; the problem should then disappear with the next scene.
Full Throttle loads, but claims it doesn’t have enough space left to play sounds.
Full Throttle is probably using up almost every last scrap of memory, and there is no room left over in your system to initialize the Sound Manager. To fix this, you should make sure you have quit out of any other applications that may be taking up valuable memory. You might also need to disable some control panels and/or extensions, or lower Full Throttle’s Preferred memory partition (if you have it raised up).
Try as I might, I can’t seem to find enough free memory to run Full Throttle.
It is possible that with certain system configurations, there may not be a way to free up enough RAM to run Full Throttle on an 8MB machine. In this case, we recommend that you play with virtual memory turned ON. Go into the Memory control panel and click the “On” button next to the virtual memory section. Then use the arrow control to adjust the amount of virtual memory you wish to use. For best performance, we recommend setting your virtual memory to the lowest possible value. Once you have virtual memory turned on, you will get a warning when you launch Full Throttle; simply press on in spite of the warning and you will be able to play, with some performance degradation.
The sound breaks up and stutters during play.
You probably either have virtual memory turned on in the Memory control panel or you are running with a third-party RAM extender utility installed. In either case, the solution is to disable the offender. To disable virtual memory, select the Memory control panel and click the “Off” button in the virtual memory section. To disable your RAM extender utility, use the Extensions Manager control panel to turn it off before playing. In either case, you will need to restart your Mac for the changes to take effect.
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