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    Welcome to the Unofficial Shattered Steel FAQ! This is my first attempt at writing a FAQ so bear with me. 
    This FAQ is copyright(C) by Tristan Fillmore, except where noted otherwise. Permission is hereby granted to all employees of BioWare and Interplay Productions to redistribute and utilize it at will. All others may redistribute it provided it is not modified in any way. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. 
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1. What is Shattered Steel? -Basic information about the hot game that's climbing the charts. 
    1.1 Supported Operating Systems 
    1.2 System requirements 
    1.3 Background story 
    1.4 Technology features
2. Sources of Information -Where to learn more about the Best Action Game of the Year. 
    2.1 Web Pages 
    2.2 Usenet newsgroup 
    2.3 Mailing list 
    2.4 FTP Site (Where to get the demo and patch) 
    2.5 Web BBS
3. Tech Support -Some commonly experienced technical problems and their solutions. 
    3.1 Squashed screen 
    3.2 Jerky movies 
    3.3 Sound card doesn't autodetect 
    3.4 Problems setting up MIDI music 
    3.5 Problems with Installation 
    3.6 "Read Failure on Drive D" error 
    3.7 crackling noises 
    3.8 crackling noises only during movies 
    3.9 Sound only plays on one side 
    3.10 Problems with Microsoft SideWinder joysticks 
    3.11 The "I get to the starbase but I can't do anything" problem
4. Advanced Shattered Steel -Getting the most possible fun out of that CD. 
    4.1 The ssteel.ini file and command line options 
    4.2 Mission editing 
    4.3 Undocumented features
5. Multiplayer -Covers Kali, LANs, and other issues. 
    5.1 Connecting Shareware and Retail versions 
    5.2 Multiple players off one CD 
    5.3 Shattered Steel on Kali 
    5.4 The voting system 
    5.5 Shattered Steel on onling gaming services 
    5.6 Shattered Steel ladder
6. Shattered Steel Console -What it is, how to use it, and what you can do with it. 
    6.1 The Console 
    6.2 Console Commands
7. The future of Shattered Steel -What lies ahead. 
    7.1 Mission editors 
    7.2 Expansion packs 
    7.3 The sequel 
    7.4 Ensuring the future