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Of course, WCIII is sometimes slow near very big cap ships (like starbase).
but if there are only small fighters, I can have 20 frames per sec. I find
the game really fun. You may have to play it a little bit longer. It can
take some time to handle correctly your fighter. But once you learned some
combat tactics, you will like the game a lot!

						Snoopy


: In article <nhouck.7...@ucla.edu>, nho...@ucla.edu (Noel) wrote:

: > I just bought WCIII for the Mac and I must say that I am not impressed
: buy the 
: > graphics.  First it only has 256 color graphics which makes the video scenes 
: > look much worse then they would with 16 bit.  Why is the background when 
: > flying a blue shade and not black, it makes everyhting look muddy.  I
: think it 
: > looks ugly, X-Wing is much crisper and nicer to look at (at least on the Mac 
: > in hi res) and is 100 times more fluid.  I can't imagine that the texture 
: > mapping makes WCIII that much slower vs X-Wing, cause there is usually only 1 
: > fighter on the screen at a time anyway.  Besides, where is the support for 
: > QuickDraw 3D, I didn't buy a Mac for nothing?  Even in High Res mode, which 
: > should be 1:1 pixel mapping, the stars/nebulea and such are not in high res, 
: > and to top it off the game is jerky on an 80Mhz PPC.  On an 030 I can 
: > understand that, but a PPC?  All the other flight sims I have are smooth as 
: > glass!  The sound is not very good either, but this one area that X-Wing 
: > doesn't have an edge up on WCIII.  I just got the game and only played it for 
: > about 15 minutes at it's highest graphics settings, but I would expect more 
: > from a 4 CD game.  It looks like they didn't put much effort into porting it 
: > to the Mac as far as improving the graphics and sound, the port of X-Wing has 
: > much improved graphics over the PC version, I would expect the same
: here.  The 
: > only saving grace is that the animation is smooth (although low res and in 
: > crappy 256 color) in the video scenes and the Costuming/Makeup is good.
: > 
: > BTW, I have the demo for X-Wing that I uploaded to AMUG/incoming and 
: > a.b.mac.games.  If anyone wants me to repost it, let me know, but all the 
: > parts did get there ok, at least on my server.
: > 
: > later-
: > Noel
: > nho...@ucla.edu
: > http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~noel

: That's odd...it runs very smoothy on my 7100/66 with only 8 megs of RAM. 
: What version are you using, and what extensions do you have on?  I have
: both X-Wing and WC III, and I find WC III to be far superior in all
: respects, especially the cutscenes.  One last thing:the blue screen means
: that you are flying a flight simulator-the background is black in the real
: missions.  

:       Evan.

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