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Speed can't undo bloat. Windows Media Player (post version 6) still takes forever to load on a 1.5GHz Athlon XP, because it is bloated as crap.

Interesting update to my Prophecy problem: I tried installing it to my other computer, which is a Windows XP machine with a P3 600 with 384MB RAM, Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard, GeForce2 MX, and HP 4x4x24 CDRW drive. The same problems occured with the videos (with or without sound...

Hmm, that's interesting. I remember recently telling someone that I thought NTFS caused problems with some games (I assume that's where you're going), but that person insisted such was not the case. Oh, and I don't know about USB joysticks, but I'm using a gameport digital joystick with WC4...

I haven't tried disabling hardware acceleration. Do you mean going into DXDiag and disabling Direct3D Acceleration under the Display tab? Something tells me that would probably prevent me from playing Prophecy in Direct3D mode.

DirectX My DirectX version is 8.1. Does anyone know if this is a problem?

I see a lot of posts on here about Wing Commander Prophecy video stuttering/skipping under Windows XP, but I am encountering it under Windows 98 as well. I have tried disabling sound acceleration in DXdiag but to no avail. As of now, the game does the same stuttering no matter which OS I...