AtomicPurple comments on You know the story about the the error message edited to say "Thank you for playing Wing Commander"? That doesn't actually happen in any version of the game.

You know the story about the the error message edited to say "Thank you for playing Wing Commander"? That doesn't actually happen in any version of the game. (www.wcnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by FullOfBallooons@leminal.space to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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I love when people dig down to get to the bottom of stories like this.

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[–] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The version I've always heard isn't that the expansion pack "randomly fixed it", but rather that the issue was a memory leak that would cause the game to run out of RAM and crash after a couple hours. The extra memory of the expansion pack would just delay the crash for an additional 6-7 hours. I'm curious how true this is actually is now, as it seems like it would be easy enough to test.

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[–] leggettc18@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Nah it’s been confirmed that the expansion pack was used from the very beginning for the lighting engine (game does have pretty damn good looking lighting for its age, to be fair).

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