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ICR2 W95 vs. DOS: graphics quality

3 posts by 2 people · 27 Dec 1996 - 30 Dec 1996

Yousuf Khan 27 Dec 1996#350440
Is the quality of graphics in ICR2-W95 somewhat lesser than the quality of graphics in ICR2-DOS? I don't see the amount of texturing that I see in the DOS game. Now, quite apart from any differences in the speed of running an app in one operating system vs. the other, I did notice that when I was setting up ICR2W95, that a warning came up about using 256 color modes instead of what I'm using now, 16-bit color. They mentioned something about certain "effects" not being present in anything but 256 color mode. Now I don't particularly want to downgrade to 256 color mode from 16-bit color mode, just for this one game, but are these "effects" that they mentioned actually these textures that I'm not seeing now? Yousuf Khan -- Yousuf J. Khan Ottawa, Ont, Canada Nation's capital
simrac.. 28 Dec 1996#350601
The graphics are the same, but the performance in ICR-Win95 suffers quite a bit. Running Win95 in High-Color tends to load-down the CPU, so changing the screen to 256-color would help, but I doubt there would be any significant change. Best Regards, Marc Marc J. Nelson Sim Racing News - USA http://members.aol.com/simracing/
Yousuf Khan 30 Dec 1996#350927
Funny, I didn't notice much difference in performance between the two versions, apart from the texturing being lesser in the Win95 version. I switched to a 256 color screen, but it made no difference. Yousuf Khan -- Yousuf J. Khan Ottawa, Ont, Canada Nation's capital

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