Actually, when you run the bike scene in the software mode, the road textures (you know, the lines on the road) are not there. In hardware mode, everything's there, and yeah, if you think its too fast on a 1.2Ghz, try it on a 1.5Ghz!!!
Uh, I'm using an Athlon 1.2GHz, not a Pentium4 1.5 GHz so you can't really say that a P4 1.5GHz will perform
faster than an Athlon 1.2GHz in this case, cause the benchmarks do tell that.... I'm not trying to start off a war of Intel vs. AMD here, I'm just stating the "truth". (CPU clockspeed doesn't always win all the time,
)
And also, the CPU speed is already so
fast for the game,so I think the bike game speed difference is negligible at such CPU speeds as well.
Edit - and oh yeah goku, you're right. I don't think 3d hardware was really that common that time. I was using my Intel 8MB i740 gfx card to play FF7 during that time, and I think the 8MB vid. card was quite expensive for that time. (Of course the V2 was the most expensive one) Bear in mind that I played FF7 quite late too..........