Games running *fast*

[RickyOswaldIOW]

Greetings all, this is my first post so I'll start with a big warm Hello!

I'm having some troubles with older games on my HP510 laptop. Here's the spec:

Intel Pentium M770 (2.13GHz)

Intel GMA 950 (128mb)

1GB DDR2 SDRAM (Upgraded from 512mb)

60GB HDD

Yadda...

The problem is pretty wierd- some older games like UT and Deus Ex are running really fast. For example, if I put UT game speed to 50%, which normally would be very slow, the 10 second countdown at the end of assult maps takes about 4 seconds. I know that with older DOS games, the game will go really fast if you have a fast CPU, but these games are not *that* old and should run properly on any modern system. I have made a lot of tweaks to the machine since it was first purchased - I've removed a fair few startup items from the registry, I am wondering if maybe I've disabled some sort of graphics control software? My newer games seem to work fine i.e. KotOR, Republic Commando.

Any ideas?

[Toxcity]

Sometimes games that are running at very high frame per second will speed up.

A good exaomple of this is GTA: Vice City.

The best way to stop this is to turn on Vsync. Which then caps the FPS at around 60FPS.

Might be the problem.

[RickyOswaldIOW]

Yeh I used to get that on Vice City but I'm certain that this is not the problem, partly because Deus Ex and UT don't have a vsync option or frame limiter. Another example of this is in Thief 1 & 2, the game itself runs at normal speed but when you're on the loadout screen where you purchase new sutff, all the items rotate uber-fast!

[mrapoc]

Just sorted this on my laptop mate. I was finding unreal tournament *original* was running uber fast! All you have to do is..

1. Create a shortcut to the UT .exe

2. add " - cpuspeed=XXX" where the x's are your speed in mhz, ie. for a 1.3 GHz you make it - cpuspeed=1300, remember the spaces. Just add it to the end of the target

[RickyOswaldIOW]

Excellent, thanks for that. I'll try it at soon as I get home!

[RickyOswaldIOW]

ELITE, worx. Hope it works for other games too (I don't have them installed atm).

[mrapoc]

No problem dude...now u see that little tick/cross box under my avatar...please click it xD its self explanatary from there

[Toxcity]

Originally Posted by name='mrapoc'

No problem dude...now u see that little tick/cross box under my avatar...please click it xD its self explanatary from there

Cheeky Cheeky Sam!

[mrapoc]

ho ho ho yes indeed xD