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GeneralWhat is the scheduled release date for Ahriman's Gift?Kohan: Ahriman's Gift was shipped to North American retail outlets in mid-November 2001. As of yet, no official release date has been set for the rest of the world.
What is the ESRB rating for Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?Kohan: Ahriman's Gift has been rated "E," for everyone,
What are the minimum specifications to play Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?
What are the recommended specifications to play Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?
Do I need to have the original Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns to play Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?No. Ahriman's Gift is an entirely new game and does not require the original Immortal Sovereigns to play.
How will the Ahriman's Gift storyline tie into the Kohan world?Ahriman's Gift is a prequel to Immortal Sovereigns and opens with the evil Ceyah forces slowly taking over the world of Khaldun. Roxanna Javidan has been chosen by the forces of the Shadow to be their champion and lead the Shadow into a new age of never-ending darkness.
What are the main differences between Kohan: Ahriman's Gift and Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns?One of the biggest changes is the improvement in the strategic artificial intelligence. We feel that the new artificial intelligence is some of the best real-time strategy artificial intelligence ever. More strategic options will be another noticeable difference. The addition of new units will open up new strategies for players to implement, plan for, and react to. Many of the new units have more specialized roles, designed to counter certain Immortal Sovereigns strategies or counter other Ahriman's Gift units. Some of the new units are also at the higher end of the power structure, to encourage longer games with more strategic building plans. Additionally, we added two new game types, our own take on the traditional King of the Hill game type, as well as an anti-rush game type called "Turtle."
Does TimeGate plan to do any type of expansion pack for Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?There are currently no plans for an expansion pack for Kohan: Ahriman's Gift.
Will there be a Kohan: Ahriman's Gift ladder?Currently there are no plans for a TimeGate supported ladder, however, a number of clans have discussed launching leagues and/or a ladder.
What languages are Kohan: Ahriman's Gift fully localized for?Kohan: Ahriman's Gift is currently offered only in English. As soon as other localizations are available, we will announce them on our website.
Can I submit a map I have built to be the Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns or Kohan: Ahriman's Gift website map of the week?Yes, simply follow the guidelines outlined here.
How can I make a campaign for Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?
How can I make a "mod" for Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?We currently do not have a tool available to make mods, however we are looking into it.
Gameplay MultiplayerHow many Campaigns are in Kohan: Ahriman's Gift?There are five complete campaigns in Kohan: Ahriman's Gift: The main campaign, Ahriman's Gift, and two mini-campaigns, The Quest for Darius and The Enemy Within. In Ahriman's Gift, the player plays as Roxanna, the traitorous wife of Darius, the hero of Immortal Sovereigns' Cycle of Destruction. In The Quest for Darius, players lead the journey deep into the Sea of Fire to recover Darius's amulet. Finally, in The Enemy Within, players get the chance to learn more about the Slaanri and are introduced to three new Slaanri heroes. In addition to these three campaigns, there are Basic and Advanced Tutorials.
How many players can be in a multiplayer game?You can play games with a maximum of 8 players.
How long will games usually last?Games can last anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours. It all depends on the game type, size of the map, and the strategies used.
Can allies trade technologies?While “Elite” technologies are never shared amongst allies, all other technologies are automatically shared with anyone allied to you.
Can allies trade heroes?No.
What ports have to be open on a firewall to allow me to play multiplayer games?You will likely experience difficulty in using Arcade or playing games if you are behind a firewall or a similarly restrictive proxy server. Arcade and the multiplayer modes of supported games can be used only if certain data is free to travel back and forth across your Internet connection. If your firewall is set to restrict access, Arcade cannot verify information in its database, send you the chat responses from other users, nor send you the game server lists. Arcade was certainly not designed to “work around” your firewall! 6667 (IRC)
See also: http://www.gamespyarcade.com/support/firewalls.shtml
Hardware SoftwareI am having problems installing/running Kohan: Ahriman's Gift under Windows 2000 and/or Windows XP. What can I do?Windows 2000/XP needs administrator rights to run a SecuROM protected application. SecuROM uses well documented low-level commands to access a CD/DVD-ROM drive. When Microsoft developed Windows 2000/XP they made security levels more restrictive and also disallowed low-level commands without having administrator rights. Starting a SecuROM protected application leads to a 'No disc inserted.' or 'Wrong disc inserted.' message when started on a PC running Windows 2000/XP without administrator rights. The access rights will need to be changed accordingly.
I have an AMD processor and Kohan: Ahriman's Gift keeps crashing. What can I do?If you have an AMD processor and have been experiencing crash problems since the 1.1.0 patch please update your BIOS. This has solved the problem for every AMD user so far.
I have Guard Dog on my computer. Will these cause any problems?Guard Dog, an Internet monitoring utility, prevents Kohan from running the copy protection check correctly and prevents the game from running.
I have Pretty Good Privacy installed on my machine. Will this create any problems?Kohan will not run if you have Pretty Good Privacy installed on your machine. This may change as we get updates for SafeDisk 2. For the moment you will have to uninstall PGP to be able to play Kohan, disabling isn't enough.
I'm running Windows 95 and I keep getting “A required .DLL file, WS2_32.DLL, was not found.” How can I fix this?You will need the Windows 95 Winsock update. The file and installation instructions can be found here (Microsoft website).
My mouse keeps freezing up. Is there anything I can do to fix the problem?So far this has only been reported as a problem with the Microsoft Intellimouse, but this may work for other makes as well: Go to your System Properties then go to the Performance Tab, click on the Graphics tab. Then just adjust the Hardware acceleration tab back to three quarters of the way.
Why do I keep getting a DirectDraw error that prevents me from playing Kohan?If you are getting the “C:\kohan\source\system\DirectDraw.ccp(1230) : (FATL) : Couldn't create buffer surface” error then Direct Draw does not gave enough memory to perform the operation.
The most likely problem is that your video card doesn't have at least 4MB of video RAM for 2D acceleration.
My system meets min specs but should it run this slow?Generally Kohan runs well even on a minimum spec machine. If you are experiencing severe slow downs in the game our first recommendation is to update your video drivers. Then upgrade to DirectX 8.0a found on the Kohan CD.
Kohan is having trouble running in my Kenwood 72X CD drive. What can I do?First try step 1. If that doesn't work move on to step 2. If those don't solve the problem, undo the changes you made in step 2.
Will my NVIDIA video card present any problems with Kohan?If you own an NVIDIA card please follow this link. There is important information for you to be aware of. The update specifically refers to Hercules cards, but it was addressed to all NVIDIA card owners. If you are having trouble with Kohan crashing to your desktop this may provide a solution. http://us.hercules.com/support/readtechnote.php3?id=49
I have a CD-RW drive. Will I experience any problems running Kohan?Terminate all programs running in the background especially those for CD burners and rewriters since these have been known to block the copy protection software's attempt to read the special data.
How can I reset the Kohan CD key? The easiest way to do this is to use the Run command from the Windows Start menu."C:Program Files/Kohan/Kohan.exe" resetcdkey Click OK
Why do I keep getting an error when trying to watch game films?Game films must be viewed by the version of Kohan that recorded the film. For example you won't be able to watch a film recorded in version 1.0.7 if you have patched up to version 1.0.9 and vice versa.
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