User Guide

Of course, each man must also be highly proficient in skills such as close com-

bat, weapons, demolition, map-reading and navigation, and emergency field

medicine; most are also fluent in at least one foreign language (formerly Arabic

and Malay were most common, but now Russian and other northern European

languages are receiving more emphasis). Typically, there’s enough cross-training

and combined skills in any four-man group to enable it to carry out almost any

SAS mission, even of one or more men are incapacitated.

A typical tour in the SAS is three years, after which men return to their “par-

ent” units; this not only keeps the SAS fresh, but spreads its unique esprit and skills

throughout the Royal Army. Exceptional officers and men may be invited to either

extend their tours or return to the Regiment after an interval with their parent unit.

This, then, is the SAS. In playing Hidden and Dangerous, you’ll join SAS

units for campaigns during World War II, when the Regiment was first formed—

but the techniques you’ll learn are every bit as useful today, and they’re still being

used every day on both overt and secret SAS missions all over the world. Good

luck...and good hunting.

Installing the Game

Place the HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS CD-ROM in your drive and be sure all

other Windows applications are closed. If the installation program does not start

automatically, click on “My Computer,” then on the icon for your CD drive, and

finally on the icon for “Setup.” Follow screen prompts during the installation

process.

For optimal performance, we recommend the “full installation” option. This

places more data on your (faster) hard disk and reduces the number of times the

(slower) CD drive must be accessed during gameplay.

If you need to uninstall HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS, select the HIDDEN AND

DANGEROUS group from your “Start” menu, then click on UNINSTALL.

Starting the Game

Click on the HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS icon. The first time you run the game,

you’ll be asked a few simple hardware configuration questions. It’s best to just

accept the program’s suggestions; if you have any problems, you can change

settings later by clicking on the Hardware Configuration icon in the HIDDEN

AND DANGEROUS program group. Once hardware has been configured and

you have selected the HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS icon again, you’ll be taken

to the HIDDEN AND DANGEROUS opening screen.

If you want to set parameters manually, consider the following tips.

• Triple buffering will speed operation on cars with 8MB or more memory,

but not on 3DFX cards.

• If your graphics card has 6MB or less memory, select the Low detail tex-

tures to ensure smooth graphics and gameplay.

• If you decide to use a higher screen resolution (i.e. 1024x768), your

graphics card must have at least 8MB of memeory.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SAS