To all the lucky people who already have WC4

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1 total messages Started by KrisE... Kris Erickson Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00

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Author: KrisE... Kris Erickson
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00

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If you could take a few minutes out of your WC4 playing time and answer a 
couple of questions I would be most grateful...  It looks like us Canadians 
have to wait a couple of extra days for the program to be shipped...

1)  Does the game use the same compression as in the demo?  I was looking at 
rec.arts.game.programmers a while ago and someone who worked for EA said that 
they had an in house compression program that was slightly better than the 
Origin scheme.  It is going to be used for The Darkening (another sort of Wing 
Commander game supposedly coming out in the near future), and I think was the 
compression they used in NHL 96 (which looked pretty good to me, but I couldn't 
tell whether it was 16 bit or not).  It seems strange that Origin wouldn't 
either improve the video routines or use the EA compression scheme.  The 
compression from the demo looks pretty good, but there are sections of sevre 
blockiness when there is an area of unified colour.  Also, the interlacing 
kinda bugs me...

2)  Does it support the throttle on the MS Sidewinder?

3)  Does it still have the frame limiter set to 20 fps in the gameplay mode?  
(I guess someone with a fast computer will have to answer that one.)

Thanks in advance,

	Kris

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