Hi,
> I've noticed recently some animated pics not appearing (e.g. things like
> fountains). On some runs of FreeSCI they show up and on others they don't.
This is strictly a performance issue, IIRC. During startup, the games do a
number of animations with a black object ("fred") on black background, and
use this to measure system performance. If they determine that the system
isn't fast enough, some views are switched off or drawn only as picviews.
I can reproduce this here by increasing the screen resolution to 3x3 or
bigger.
llap,
Christoph