Docking Station PC System Requirements

PC CD-ROM
Windows 95/98/ME/NT and Win 2000 with administrator privileges
Pentium II processor or higher
32Mb RAM or higher
64Mb and higher if Docked with Creatures 3
200Mb hard drive space
DirectX compatible Sound Card
DirectX compatible Video Card
Internet connection

Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater (for improved Windows network functionality, use of the browser itself not required)
Please Note: Internet Explorer 4.0 (or greater) installs vital Windows Internet components that are required for the networking capabilities of Docking Station. No other browser does this. However, once these Windows Internet components are installed you are free to use whatever browser you prefer to access the Creature Data on the Docking Station Central site.

K6-2 processors: Some players may find that Docking Station runs very slowly on K6-2 equipped systems. This is due to the many floating point calculations needed to simulate Norn biochemistry and neural net. We're aware of this issue and have discussed it with AMD, unfortunately there is little that we can do to make the game run any faster. The recommended solution to this issue is a processor upgrade.

XP Compatibility: Docking Station was not made to work on the Windows XP operating system. Though similiar, this operating system is different from Windows 95/98/ME and thus it may be unstable or refuse to work at all. However, some users success installing and running Docking Station on XP as long as:

- The game is installed by a user with complete administrator privileges.
- The game is run only by a user with complete administrator privileges.

You must install (or reinstall if already installed) under a Windows XP user that has complete administrator privileges and the game can only run by a user with complete administrator privileges.

(Thanks to TreeSprite and the Creatures community for these XP installation instructions)