Paladin 1.0b1 readme
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Does Paladin kick you with no reason?
Read "Troubleshooting" section below.


* What is Paladin?
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Paladin Anticheat is a Client/Server system, created to check player's machines for running cheats, and eventually notifying the server that will kick or ban them from the Half-life server. 
Paladin is new in it's detection algorithms, auto updates securely from the web, and aims at being an effective cheating deterrent under Half-life, all mods.


* Installation Instructions
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Installing Paladin Client is fairly easy. Just uncompress the Paladin archive to your Half-life folder, and use Paladin.exe to launch Half-life, instead of HL.exe. Using Gamespy, you can set, in FILE menu, under GAMES AND FILTERS entry, the command line for Half-life to Paladin.exe instead of HL.exe, any command line options will work as before. A similar procedure can be used to configure ASE to use it.
This way it will be launched every time you enter a server, using this method or the manual launching of paladin.exe is up to you. 
Once you launched it, just connect to your favourite server, Paladin will work transparently in the background, notifying you of connection and problems on the Half-life console. Using Paladin on servers which are not monitored by Paladin client has no problem at all. Just remember, anyway, that Paladin IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH OTHER ANTICHEATS SOLUTIONS, you must NOT run Paladin while running other anti cheat clients.

* Network Issues
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First of all, network traffic generated by Paladin Client is very light, so it won't affect your ping at all. For users behind a firewall, you should open it to allow Client  generated traffic on TCP port 27060, or ask your network administrator to do it. Paladin has no problem working behind a NAT, while we have not tested all NAT solutions around, so let us know if you encounter any problem. 


* Troubleshooting 
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All custom OpenGL drivers doesn't work with Paladin.
The supported drivers are currently:
* Default
* WickedGL 2.31        (download: http://www.reactor.ru/download.shtml)
* 3dfx MINI Driver

All other custom OpenGL drivers will raise a cheat violation.

Paladin does not have HalfIrc support. So this cause a cheat violation.

This version of Paladin is NOT compatible with NT 4.0

If you run Paladin and PunkBuster at the same time, on a PunkBuster required server. You
will be kicked by PunkBuster for Cheat Violation #104



There are no other known issues at the time, we encourage you to give us all the feedback you can.

To report problems to the Paladin staff, email to support@paladin-anticheat.com
You can find quicker help in it's installation on IRC, Quakenet Network (quakenet.eu.org), on channel #paladin-anticheat
