Kilrathi Saga Observation - Windows 98 SE vs. Windows XP
Hey all!
I honestly was torn whether to post this in the tech forum or the general one, but since people are more likely to catch it here and it isn't exactly troubleshooting per se, I think it probably fits better here. (Feel free to move it if you disagree, moderators).
I recently reinstalled Kilrathi Saga to replay it from the beginning. (Actually, it'll be my first time legitimately playing 1 and 2...).
Initially, I had installed it in Windows XP. It was going fine and I was actually almost done with WC1 (last sector) when I inadvertantly (doing something else) messed up my partition information. (Yeah...Oops...). I actually was able to restore most of my stuff, but my savegame was a casualty.
Anyways...(yes, there is a point here)...I decided since I have some other old games that aren't as happy with XP to reformat and set up a dual boot system with both an old copy of Windows 98 SE and Windows XP. That way, I could play old-style Windows 95/98 games in a more native operating system.
I have to say I'm shocked at the difference in Wing Commander I, and I thought I'd share this as some of you might not realize it's not working right in XP - I didn't. (Maybe it does on some systems too - who knows?)
I had assumed WCI was just not quite as smooth as the newer games, but the action and movement in 98 is much smoother than it was in XP...everything from firing weapons (guns and missiles) to combat is substantially smoother and maybe a bit faster as well (but not unnaturally so). The strange thing is...it didn't really feel WRONG in XP...just less refined (which I thought was because it was an older game). I think it's a bit more difficult this way as well (but it feels more like a more modern flight engine). Weapons seem to fire faster and in greater succession and movement just seems generally smoother. No stutters either (which I got occasionally in XP, specifically with explosions and such...though even then it was hard to tell something was actually wrong, and these were few and far between).
Anyways, just thought this might be useful information to someone. Maybe this isn't the case for most people and it just is an effect from something in own my computer too.
Hey all!
I honestly was torn whether to post this in the tech forum or the general one, but since people are more likely to catch it here and it isn't exactly troubleshooting per se, I think it probably fits better here. (Feel free to move it if you disagree, moderators).
I recently reinstalled Kilrathi Saga to replay it from the beginning. (Actually, it'll be my first time legitimately playing 1 and 2...).
Initially, I had installed it in Windows XP. It was going fine and I was actually almost done with WC1 (last sector) when I inadvertantly (doing something else) messed up my partition information. (Yeah...Oops...). I actually was able to restore most of my stuff, but my savegame was a casualty.
Anyways...(yes, there is a point here)...I decided since I have some other old games that aren't as happy with XP to reformat and set up a dual boot system with both an old copy of Windows 98 SE and Windows XP. That way, I could play old-style Windows 95/98 games in a more native operating system.
I have to say I'm shocked at the difference in Wing Commander I, and I thought I'd share this as some of you might not realize it's not working right in XP - I didn't. (Maybe it does on some systems too - who knows?)
I had assumed WCI was just not quite as smooth as the newer games, but the action and movement in 98 is much smoother than it was in XP...everything from firing weapons (guns and missiles) to combat is substantially smoother and maybe a bit faster as well (but not unnaturally so). The strange thing is...it didn't really feel WRONG in XP...just less refined (which I thought was because it was an older game). I think it's a bit more difficult this way as well (but it feels more like a more modern flight engine). Weapons seem to fire faster and in greater succession and movement just seems generally smoother. No stutters either (which I got occasionally in XP, specifically with explosions and such...though even then it was hard to tell something was actually wrong, and these were few and far between).
Anyways, just thought this might be useful information to someone. Maybe this isn't the case for most people and it just is an effect from something in own my computer too.