Hints & Tips

Speed up t4c by tweaking the registry (actually, it speeds up your filesystem...idk if it works with all versions of windows, but it should. i'm using 2k pro.) Anyway, you'd edit this key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management] change the key "IoPageLockLimit" to a decimal value of 32768. This will change the default 8k io to 32meg, speeding up your filesystem quite a bit. (note: restart required.)

Also, in an NT based system (2k, and xp...i dont think we have anyone using nt4 cause of the sound issue) you can hit ctrl-shift-esc and hit the processes tab. from there, choose t4c.exe and right click. Change the priority level from high to realtime, and that will increase framerate, but it might make your computer a little unstable.

This is for people who play T4c on more than one PC and want to keep their macros and inventory items synchronized.
The easiest way to do this is with a floppy disk but you can use any removable media.
To do this first run the registry editor on the PC you've just finished playing on, Click START RUN and type regedit in the command line.
The registry editor will start, Now you must find the Vircom folder, The path should be HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Vircom (Or use ctrl+f to find the folder) Click on this folder and now click Registry Export Registry File as shown in the picture below.



A dialog box will open asking where to Export the file to, choose your floppy drive "A:" or whatever media you want to save the file to. Name the file what you want, as you can see I have named my file T4c in the picture below.



Now the first part is done, You have on your disk all the settings the game saves in the registry. All we need to do is Import them on the 2nd PC you play on.
Here is how we do that, Run regedit on the 2nd PC click Registry > Import Registry file, as you can see in the picture below.



A dialog box will open asking where to import the file from, choose the device you are using (make sure your media is inserted) after the device reads the media click on the registry file you saved and click open, as seen in the picture below.



Well if all went well you should get a notice like in the picture below and that's it, You can do this every time you switch PC's.. Please see the notes below for a couple more tips.



Note: You can save the file with a (.txt) extension so you can view and edit it if necessary

Tip : If you change your name you will lose all macro and inventory as well as CC settings to avoid this simply find the folder with the old char's name and rename it.

Tip : You can also use E-Mail to swap this file :o)

This tip will allow you to use any font in the chat interface in the game. Just to be clear, the chat interface is the ctrl+L screen etc, not the text you see in the regular game view. I hope you can have fun with this and make your T4C game a bit more personalized.

Click your Start Button and go to run. Type "regedit" (without the quotes) and hit enter. Your registry editor will now pop up on your screen. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_User Software Vircom T4C. Right click somewhere in the right side of the window and click new String Value. A new value will appear and flash because you need to give it a name. Name it "SmallFont" (without quotes). Now double-click it and for the value, type in the EXACT name of the font you wish to see in your chat windows (font must be installed on your computer .. duh). Now, we must specify the size of the font. Right click again to make a new value. Chose new DWORD. Again, a new value will appear and flash because it needs a name. Name this one "SmallFontSize" (without quotes). Double click it and type in the size you want your font to be in game (16 for example).

That's it! If you have done it properly, you will see your new font when you open the chat interface in the game. You can edit these values anytime to change the font, the size, or both. To go back to using the default game font, simply right click the values and delete them.

This tip is useful if you find yourself turning the volume of the music or sounds in the ctrl+O screen down, especially when you are on a slower computer and turn the sounds off to speed up the game. Doing this also skips the music decompression part of running safemode.exe or reinstalling the game (the music decompression takes forever on slow machines!)

Click your Start Button and go to run. Type "regedit" (without the quotes) and hit enter. Your registry editor will now pop up on your screen. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_User Software Vircom T4C. Right click somewhere in the right side of the window and click new DWORD. A new value will appear and flash because you need to give it a name. Name it "NoMusic" (without quotes). Now double-click it and set the value to 1 (does not matter if it is decimal or hexadecimal values).

That's it, you are done! To re-enable the sound in the game, simply change the value to 0 or right click and delete.

This is a useful tip for those that find the sound the game makes when you send/receive pages is annoying.

Click your Start Button and go to run. Type "regedit" (without the quotes) and hit enter. Your registry editor will now pop up on your screen. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_User Software Vircom T4C. Notice the DWORD value on the right side of the window called "PageSound". Double Click it and change the value to 0.

That's it, you're done! To re-enable the sound, simply change the value back to 1.

Go to your start menu and click run, type in regedit and hit enter. Your registry editor will pop up on screen. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Vircom T4C .. on the right side you will see a String value called "Language" .. when you double click that you can change the client from french to english or vise-versa by changing the value to either "French" or "English".