Welcome to Madden NFL 2004.
This README.txt file contains information on issues not covered by the manual and install guide.
- Supported 3D Accelerator Hardware
Madden NFL 2004 requires a 32mb 3D Direct3D chipset including:
Cards with these chipsets are officially supported
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- nVidia GeForce2 GTS, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX series, GeForce4 Ti series, GeForce FX series
Win98 driver ver: Detonator 44.30
WinME driver ver: Detonator 44.30
WinXP driver ver: Detonator 44.30
Win2k driver ver: Detonator 44.30 http://www.nvidia.com **NOTE**: Madden NFL 2004 does not officially support the GeForce 2 MX series.
- ATI Radeon 8500, Radeon 9200, Radeon 9600, Radeon 9700, and Radeon 9800
Win98 driver ver: Catalyst 3.5
WinME driver ver: Catalyst 3.5
WinXP driver ver: Catalyst 3.5
Win2k driver ver: Catalyst 3.5 http://www.ati.com - Matrox Parhelia
WinXP driver ver: 1.04.02.007
Win2k driver ver: 1.04.02.007 http://www.matrox.com **NOTE**: This game does not support workstation 3D cards or dual monitors.***
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Minimum System Requirements
CPU: PIII or AMD Athlon 700MHz
RAM: 128MB (256MB for Windows XP)
Video: 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 9.0 or higher compatible driver (DirectX 9.0a is recommended) - Go to the "Windows and DirectX" section of this Readme.
Recommended:
10 button dual analog gamepad
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Unreadable text with WindowsXP
If you are having trouble reading the text in game and you are using the WindowsXP operating system, then you will need to download a patch from Microsoft to correct this. The patch can be downloaded from here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Patch/Q306676/WXP/EN-US/Q306676_WXP_SP1_x86_ENU.exe
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Running in Windowed Mode
If you experience graphical issues while running in windowed mode at 640x480, turn the "Hardware Acceleration" setting for your video card to FULL.
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Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering
You may experience player model graphic corruption in the training and mini-camp drills with Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering set at 4 times or higher. Turn these settings OFF to resolve the issue.
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Windows and DirectX
Users with Windows (WinXP, Win2000, WinME, Win98 First or Second Edition) and a version of DirectX older than 9.0a may experience performance problems. These problems can be resolved by installing DirectX 9.0a BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE GAME, which is available on your Madden NFL 2004 game disc. Simply use windows explorer and go to X:DirectX (where X is your CD Rom drive). From there run the DXSetup.exe file. YOU MAY NEED TO UNINSTALL MADDEN NFL 2004, INSTALL DIRECTX 9.0a, AND THEN RE-INSTALL THE GAME.
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AOL and MSN - Minimizing Madden NFL 2004
If you are running AOL or MSN on Windows XP or 2000, sometimes pop-ups will minimize the game. To prevent this, press the START button in Windows then go to Settings - Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services.
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Gogol/ Nikhil develops two separate identities as he uses the name Nikhil to isolate himself from reminders of its uniqueness and reminisce of his Bengali culture as Gogol moves throughout his college life. For example, the text states, “...he goes home every other weekend..Somewhere along the two-and-a-half hour journey, Nikhil evaporates and Gogol claims him again,” (106) . This illustrates how Gogol/ Nikhil alternates as he comes in contact with either his family or friends, where it is a way for him to safely blend in depending on the various people. In addition, his girlfriend Ruth contributes to his identity as Nikhil because it pushes him further into playing off as this persona in which “Nikhil” dedicates himself to her.
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Gogol lived in dorms with roommates during his college years. Gogol liked to be out of the house and on his own, without his Bengali heritage following him everywhere. In college, Gogol was surrounded with Americans: he lived with Americans, studied with Americans, and made friends with Americans. For all of his growing up years, Gogol tried desperately to escape his Bengali heritage, and consequently, “it [was] his room at Yale where Gogol [felt] most comfortable,” (223). Especially now that he had changed his name to Nikhil, he felt like a different person in college than growing up. He felt like he could be accepted into the friend groups at Yale and live without others in suspicion of his strange name. Gogol felt free here, like a weary desert traveler that had finally been able to cast his heavy pack to the side and take a long drink out of the cool, clear
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The first dilemma in his search for identity is Gogol’s name. Seeing no meaning in his name, Gogol undergoes an arduous task in discovering his purpose. He hates that “his name
When Ashoke, Gogol's father, was a life, Gogol wasn’t like his name and he was continuing talk to his father to change the name an...
His confusion stems from the fact that his name is neither Bengali or American but Russian. Named after Nikhil Gogol a Russian author, he will soon find himself taking the first name of the author. The name Nikhil gave him a temporary sense of identity in which is used to start an American relationship. The relationship with Ruth was a relationship based on their vast difference of being a “Yankee” American in contracts to him being a first-generation Bengali-American. However, he does identify as being a Bengali but a typical “suburban” American. The love he has with Ruth was a taste of what an American relationship would look like. Her parents are divorces and are hippies who accepts Nikhil for who he is. Compared to his own family who questions his love with her. The falling of the relationships is when Ruth left for Oxford and when she comes back Gogol tries to rekindle the fire between them but realizes that there was nothing to rekindle. Their love was just a fling, and a way to express his love for American
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Before maturing into a man, Gogol entangles himself into a set of relationships, all of which are eventually damaged from disagreements and drifts. Nonetheless, in Moushumi, a Bengali family friend, he sees flawlessness and in a matter of months they are engaged. It is afterwards that he experiences disloyalty and discovers that a formal document cannot safeguard a relationship. This reality is better accepted by Gogol in the novel. For example, when Moushumi discloses to her friends that he “changed his name” (Lahiri, 243), he is “stunned” (Lahiri, 243) given the sensitivity of the issue, but chooses to ignore her. On the other hand, in the adaptation he confronts her angrily, stating, “What I told you about my name is . . . not just some joke!” (Nair). Later, after he realizes that she is having an affair, he is “strangely calm” (Lahiri, 282) in the novel, whereas in the adaptation, he aggressively grabs onto her in frustration. In this way, the novel stays true to Gogol’s character. He is one to internalize his feelings, and therefore never openly displays sadness in regards to his many break-ups and father’s death. As a result, the novel more realistically expresses Gogol’s response to his dissatisfying
One’s home often becomes an integral part of one’s identity. Since Gogol constantly struggles with his identity as a blend of both Bengali and American cultures, he also struggles to determine his home. It seems that he never truly feels at home, despite the great diversity among the places in which he lives. In The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri shows that one’s home and one’s identity are interconnected; consequently, Gogol’s struggles throughout the novel to determine his identity parallel his difficulty defining a home.
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‘Though the letter was sent a month ago, in July, it has yet to arrive’ (Ch.2, pg.25), and during the span of Gogol’s life, has still yet to arrive. The letter not arriving on time leads to Gogol being named by his parents. For some, a name might seem like an assortment of letters, used to give a human some sort of identity in the world, no matter our name, some people always felt rather neutral about their given name. Gogol on the other hand, feels like he is an outlier in the world, his unique name, derived from Nikolai Gogol, the Russian author who wrote ‘The Overcoat’, causes this feeling of hatred towards his name, despite the emotional story that comes from his dad choosing the name. During a class, he learns of the real Gogol and realizes that ‘not only does Gogol Ganguli have a pet name turned good name, but a last name turned first name. And so it occurs to him that no one he knows in the world, in Russia or India or America or anywhere, share his name. Not even the source of his namesake.’ This feeling alone drives Gogol’s dislike for his name. Despite the dislike of his name, Gogol learns that the reason he was given his name was because the book that saved his father was written by Gogol. In the novel, names show a connection to family and nostalgia, because Gogol’s name is a constant reminder to Ashok of the train accident he was in, and
She herself has undergone from the trauma of a strange name as her good name Nilanjana Swedeshna was rejected by her teacher because it was very difficult to pronounce again and again and preferred to call her Jhumpa Lahiri. In an interview with Arun Aguir, she admits that she never felt comfortable with her name she asserts, “When I entered the American world as a child, I endlessly had to explain to people how to say my name and how to spell it and what it means”(n.pag).The novel deals with the same distress and discomfort that lies there in a name. Ganguli parents, forced by authorities to name his newly born son, in the state of hurry and confusion, offer the “second” name, Gogol, never meant for use as the child’s public, or formal, name. ‘Gogol is a Russian name and seems irrelevant to the boy as it is neither American nor Indian. Like the novelist, Gogol also has hard time explaining to his friends and others as to why such a name was given to him in the first place. He fails to understand who actually is he- American or Indian or someone else? Throughout the novel, Gogol is haunted by his name; even when he changes it to Nikhil he realizes that he cannot get away from it. The oddness of his name strikes him time and again. The name of Nikhil Ganguli is problematized at length in the novel and suggests how