Torpedo was developed in VB with DirectX.

At the moment I'm not including the VB runtime (I'm assuming most people already have it) but I'm wondering if I'm potentially losing out.

At the moment the demo is 1.2MB, but the runtime will end up bringing it to 2MB+

I'm not really sure but I think more people are likely to download the demo at 2MB ish than 1MB (a thing about filesize:perceived quality) but when looking about I noticed that quite a few games are averaging around the 1MB limit (Dweep for example).

So my question is should I stick with the 1.2MB, or include the runtime and go for 2MB?

You should include it, most people don't have the VB Runtime.

pat.

when i had a vb game- i put the main game up on the site and offered a second download for those who needed the vb runtime