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In the Tome of Sivar, below "Killjoy was here," Demian Rose
<dd-...@students.uiuc.edu> scrawled:

> 
> hey folks,
> 
> Spurred on by pro-WCP feelings on this ng, I broke down and bought the
> damn thing last night.  Though I've only been playing it a few hours so
> far (had to figure out how to get the new 3dfx voodoo rush drivers), I've
> got a few quick questions:
> 
> -the FMV seems stuttery, at least compared to WCIII...is this purposeful
> (to save space on the CD???) or due to my CD-ROM being 8x (below the 12x
> "recommended").  I did a full install (400 MB...geesh).

For some reason, the full installation (and the medium installation,
to a lesser extent) causes occasional stutters, as if the drive was
trying to read over a scratch in the disk.  The minimum install (Gee,
"only" 150MB...) doesn't have this problem.  If that's not what you're
talking about, then I wouldn't know... the movies run smoothly on my
P-166/4x/Mystique 220(4MB).

> -is there supposedly a multiplayer add-on to be released soon?  I'd love
> to take on the role of a Kilrathi pilot ("I shall eat your heart and spit
> it out, Terran!") or even one of those new bug guys
> ("ookoomachhhiiiieeeblaaariiichhhaaahhh").

As of this time there is no multiplayer add-on for WCP, nor is there
likely to be one.  The add-on scheduled for this summer is just more
missions (and presumably a bit more video).  You'll have to wait till
early '99 for a mp WC game, if the rumors about Privateer 3 are
anywhere near true.

> enjoying it so far,
> demian

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yea, I have a similar system (p166, 6x CDROM, ATI Xpression pc2tv, 3dfx
voodoo) and the movies run fine.

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> yea, I have a similar system (p166, 6x CDROM, ATI Xpression pc2tv, 3dfx
> voodoo) and the movies run fine.

	It's not that the movies "stutter" so much, it's more like they're
just in a low frame-per-second mode, like maybe they shot 'em that way.
It's REALLY noticeable when people are speaking, as their lips are WAY out
of sync with the audio.  Doesn't affect gameplay, though, so I'm not too
upset...just kinda annoying.  I'm P200MMx, voodoo rush, 8x, by the way (64
MB RAM)...so that should be fine (better be, hell if I'm gonna shell out
more money on my computer at this point :-).

demian

In the Tome of Sivar, below "Killjoy was here," Demian Rose
<dd-...@students.uiuc.edu> scrawled:

> 
> > yea, I have a similar system (p166, 6x CDROM, ATI Xpression pc2tv, 3dfx
> > voodoo) and the movies run fine.
> 
> 	It's not that the movies "stutter" so much, it's more like they're
> just in a low frame-per-second mode, like maybe they shot 'em that way.
> It's REALLY noticeable when people are speaking, as their lips are WAY out
> of sync with the audio.  Doesn't affect gameplay, though, so I'm not too
> upset...just kinda annoying.  I'm P200MMx, voodoo rush, 8x, by the way (64
> MB RAM)...so that should be fine (better be, hell if I'm gonna shell out
> more money on my computer at this point :-).

That's easily more than enough.  Some over on agwc have run WCP no
problems on P-100 systems with 16MB and no 3D graphics card. *points
to Chris Reid*  I know it ran beautifully on my system (at the time
P-166, 32mb, 4x CD drive, and a Matrox Mystique 220 w/ 4MB), with even
better performance after I got a Monster3D vidcard.

> demian

Death

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Write to your congressman and ask them if they support Representative
Chris Smith's "Netizen's Protection Act of 1997" (H.R. 1748).  If 
not, ask why they feel your mailbox should be used like public 
property.

On Sat, 2 May 1998 13:10:44 -0500, Demian Rose
<dd-...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
>> yea, I have a similar system (p166, 6x CDROM, ATI Xpression pc2tv, 3dfx
>> voodoo) and the movies run fine.
>
>	It's not that the movies "stutter" so much, it's more like they're
>just in a low frame-per-second mode, like maybe they shot 'em that way.
>It's REALLY noticeable when people are speaking, as their lips are WAY out
>of sync with the audio.  Doesn't affect gameplay, though, so I'm not too
>upset...just kinda annoying.  I'm P200MMx, voodoo rush, 8x, by the way (64
>MB RAM)...so that should be fine (better be, hell if I'm gonna shell out
>more money on my computer at this point :-).

You might want to fiddle around with your sound card's "full duplex"
settings (if any) to see if that helps.

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