Information on wing4s tecnical achevements!

Thread View: alt.games.wing-commander

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by Phil Paradias Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00

#333

Author: Phil Paradias
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00

13 lines
1181 bytes

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. 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!

Re: Information on wing4s tecnical achevements!

#334

Author: skre... Andrew Paul
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:00

24 lines
1589 bytes

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.

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads