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pfle...@scu.edu.au (Nightfox) writes:
>: gameplay is THAT bad from a CD that you have to install to a HD, then that
>: clearly spells false advertising.  This is not limited to Origin, either.

>What Origin game that has been advertised as being playable from cd hasn't
>been? I've played WC2, Strike Commander, Privateer, Ultima Underworlds 1 +2,
>and they've all been perfectly playable on a single speed CD rom drive.

	Strike Commander running perfectly from a SINGLE speed drive?
	Did you run it with the barest minimum HD installation?
	Privateer I can believe coz there is no external scenery to move.  And
UW1 & 2 WOULD run perfectly, because the people responcible for programming
that are not IN-HOUSE Origin programmers... though I do not know the answer to this, I am willing to bet that "System Shock" will run acceptably from a CD-ROM
in minimum HD installation with the highest set graphic resolution... but like
I said I am not sure - can anyone out there confirm or deny this? (on a 486dx33
machine, ie)... because the LGT programmers have thus far performed "miracles".
I would be hard pressed to find any other single programming team at the moment
that has been efficient with their code as Looking Glass Technologies have been.
	But I digress.  WC2 WOULD run fine, because this was the one game
engine that Origin worked on that was perfect - for its time AND afterwards;
and remember that Chris Roberts worked on it, and was also made on the heyday
of Origin when they paid more attention to insignificant details such as this.
(the game ran pretty fine even on a 286, would you believe).
	Maybe I am wrong... maybe I was carried away with my disappointments on
Origin's newer releases and forgot they were NOT released on CD.  But my
initial question still stands: though they did improve the game something
shocking when they put it on CD, does SC _really_ run perfectly from a 1x speed
drive?

							- Falcon