What kind of frame rate will Red Baron II have?
That has been the subject of a lot of speculation. Until the final copy comes out, no one will really know. Sierra claims that it will run well with most options on using a Pentium 166. Those that have have a pre-beta copy say that it’s already better then Flying Corps initial release. Here’s a quote from Gordon Berg’s preview of Red Baron II at GamePen. “The press blurb that came with the pre-beta said framerates hadn’t been optimized yet, so the debugging code is still most likely present and only time will tell if the released product will be smooth enough to play on. Requiring DirectX 5, the game so far only runs in 640x480x8 resolution. It didn’t matter whether I set my display to 640×480 with 256 colors — and hence full screen — or if I kept it at my default settings of 800×600 with 16 bit color (it ran in a window when I did that); the frame rates didn’t alter for the better in either setting. For what it’s worth, I’m running a P200 with 48 megs of RAM, using a STB Lightspeed
