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Wardad February 29th, 2004 06:32 PM

P2 Game is too fast
 
Yikes,it's running at hyper speed. I do not know what happened. I swear I played Privateer 2 on this system a couple of years ago. Maybe it's the updates, especially the newer video drivers.

win98se -> DOS boot,
Athalon 1Ghz, 256M, 27gig drive
Nvida GeForce 2 MX200 32MB (MX/MX400 driver 4.13.01)

suggestions?

oogs February 29th, 2004 07:07 PM

Re: P2 Game is too fast
 
You could underclock your PC. I know that some games, specifically older ones, run faster or slower depending on your processor (the game speed is directly proportional to your processor's speed). P2 was out when there were 486's (i think), so running it on a 1Ghz machine is like putting a ferrari's engine into an old VW beetle and then flooring it.


other than that.. uhhh.. I really don't know. I could always be way off on this one.

Ruatha February 29th, 2004 07:12 PM

Re: P2 Game is too fast
 
There are some programs you may use.
Primarily intended for emulation purposes I belive.
Mo'Slo; there is an older Version that's trialware, can be found here:

Mo'Slo

EDIT:
He he, beat PvK.
Here's a page full of slow downers:
Slow it down

[ February 29, 2004, 19:20: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

PvK February 29th, 2004 07:14 PM

Re: P2 Game is too fast
 
Other games just run as fast as they possibly can. One solution there is to run a program that wastes your computer's processing at a steady rate, or other tricks and there are PD programs specifically for this task. For example, one program for this is called MOSLO, but there are others.

PvK

Ruatha February 29th, 2004 09:52 PM

Re: P2 Game is too fast
 
You could try "DosBox" aswell:

Dosbox homepage

Oh, it says Privateer 2 is tunnable, but not A Ok:
Supported games

[ February 29, 2004, 19:59: Message edited by: Ruatha ]


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