P2 Game is too fast

[Wardad]

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]

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]

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 (http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/)

EDIT:
He he, beat PvK.
Here's a page full of slow downers:
Slow it down (http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=44)

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

[PvK]

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]

You could try "DosBox" aswell:

Dosbox homepage (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1)

Oh, it says Privateer 2 is tunnable, but not A Ok:
Supported games (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?letter=P)

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