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Phil Paradias <ppar...@mail.bcs.ca> wrote:

>Wing commander 4 will feture 16bit color in the movie sequences 
>that makes it look like a movie in picture quality. The sound 
>is MUCH better than wing 3 and eany other game for that 
>matter.I know wing 3 also had 16 bit sound but the sound and 
>music quality is so much better now. On a sound blaster 16 at 
>least. The game supports all known popular sound cards.

That's because the sound is totally digitized in WC4, instead of MIDI
for music.  This means the sound will sound a lot richer than WC3,
esp. on cards without ROM sound.  

> One 
>very crutial improvement is the mission load times. No, at 
>least in the demo version a mission loads within 10 seconds! 
>Not the 30 second or more wait in wing 3, plus no pauses in 
>combat. Don't play this game with less than 16mb of ram. It's 
>difficult. origin now lists a Dx4 100 as the minimum 
>reccomended system, andthats for vga. For svga a pentium is 
>highly reccomended. Something like a 90 or 100!

One of the main reasons for the decrease in load time is the decrease
of the swap file size.  It's now only 10 megs, instead of 20.