Re: Wing Commander Saga

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From: sabbey
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:22

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Karl Frank wrote:
> sabbey wrote:
>
> > I might just have to look into this, since I have been looking for a
> > Wing Commander game and none seem to be playable on Windows XP...
>
> Like? Pretty much every WC game can be played on XP with one trick or
> another. In most cases setting Win9x compatibility on all EXE files in
> the respective folder is already sufficient.
>

I don't know about the last game, Prophecy, but from everything I read
online all of the past games run too quickly under Pentium processors
and/or have issues even under the Windows compatibility feature. Can't
say I tried myself, but am waiting to see if some sort of anthology box
set is released of the entire series anyway... ;)

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Subject: Re: Wing Commander Saga
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