System requirements

The following minimal requirements for Rushing Bender were determined. Written in brackets is the recommended hardware.

• Operating System: Windows 2000 or Windows XP, Linux
• CPU: Comparable to Pentium 1 GHz (2 GHz)
• Graphic card: ATI Radeon 7500 or Nvidia Geforce 2 (Geforce 4)
• RAM: 256 MB (512MB)
• Network bandwidth used for multiplayer mode
• Client Upstream: ~2.5KB/s
• Client Downstream: ~2.5KB/s per opponent in game
• Server Up/Down-Stream: ~2.5KB/s per player in game
  

Install

Windows

Unzip the downloaded archive to a location on your harddisc
e.g. c:\games\rushing_bender\

Linux

Unpack the downloaded archive to a location on your harddisc

mkdir rushing_bender
mv rushing_bender_1.01.zip /path/rushing_bender/
cd /path/rushing_bender/
unzip rushing_bender_1.01.zip
chmod +x /path/rushing_bender/rushing_bender*

Start the game with the following command

/path/rushing_bender/rushing_bender.sh

Uninstall

Windows

No registry entries are set and no files are saved outside the root direcotry of rushing bender. So you only have to delete the root directory of rushing bender to uninstall the game from your PC.

Keys

left	steer left
right	steer right
up	accelerate
down	brake
space	boost

F9	change camera view
F7	enable/disable Shadow Volumes
F8	enable/disable Toon Shading
F6/F7	debug views
F2	save screenshot to the rushing bender directory
ESC	exit to the main menu

Configuration

Configuration Menu

The menu "Config" allows to change the most important settings. Click on a box to enable/disable an option. Green means enabled, red means disabled. Orange means enabled, but the changes will be not be applied before a restart of the game.

"Back" returns to the Main menu.

Game config 'app.cfg'

The important configuration options are acessable in the GUI. But there are some additional options, which are only available in the configuration file "app.cfg" in the root directory of the game. This configuration file can be modified with a common text editor.
All options are saved in the format 'key=value'.

To restore the default configuration delete the configuration file. After the next start of the game, a new file with default values will be created.

Graphic settings

Key	Description	Default value
FULLSCREEN	Enable(1)/Disable(0) fullscreen mode	1
XRES	Horizontal resolution of the game window	800
YRES	Vertical resolution of the game window	600
SETLOD	Enable(1)/Disable(0), Level of Detail settings for texture mapping	1 (on ATI cards always 0, regardless of the configured value)
USEARB	Enable(1)/Disable(0) use of ARB extensions	1 (on ATI cards always 0, regardless of the configured value)
FPS_LIMIT	Limits the frames per seconds to the given value	0 (means no limitation)
ANIMATION	Enable(1)/Disable(0) animation of level objects	1
SHADOWVOL	Enable(1)/Disable(0) shadow volumes	0
TOON	Enable(1)/Disable(0) Toon Shading	0

Game settings

PLAYER_NAME

The name of the player. Max. 18 characters, if there are more the string will be truncated.

noname

Audio settings

SOUND	Enable(1)/Disable(0) sound (music)	1
SOUND_FX	Enable(1)/Disable(0) sound effects	1
SOUND_VOLUME	Sound volume, between 0 and 255	255
FX_VOLUME	Volume of the sound effects, between 0 and 255	100
SOUNDOUTPUT	Select the sound output mode. 'DEFAULT' let the sound system decide and 'NOSOUND' disables the sound system. Additional Linux only options: 'ALSA', 'OSS' and 'ESD'

Network settings

SERVER_DOMAIN	Domain name of the game server	<none></none>
SERVER_PORT	Port of the last network connection	60000
SEND_TIME	Enable(1)/Disable(0) reporting of best laptime to online scorelist