I’m currently running an I don’t know CPU. Whatever it is, it’s too fast for some of my old games and emulators. I need a program to slow it down. I have been using Mo’Slo. But even setting that at its lowest speed now gets me about three times too fast. Can anybody recommend a CPU-slowing utility?
Try this: Press ctrl-alt-del, right-click on the application you want to slow, and lower its priority.
Or you could just open Itunes and Microsoft Word- that slows my ancient laptop down a whole bunch.
I haven’t tried these, but they seem like likely contenders:
http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Games/Tools-Editors/Game-Speed-Adjuster.html
http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Games/Tools-Editors/Game-Speed-Controller.html
Game Speed Adjuster doesn’t seem to have any effect at all. I can’t get the download link for Game Speed Controller to work.
If they are DOS games, use DOSBox, a nifty little DOS emulator. I use it to run old Sierra adventure games once in a while
I have DosBox, how do I adjust the speed?
CTRL-F11 decrements the number of CPU cycles, slowing the speed
CTRL-F12 increments the number of CPU cycles, increasing the speed
See if this gets you running correctly.
hmm, trying to run the program I want gets me the error message “Load error: No DPMI- get csdpmi*b.zip”
FWIW, In college, I played Scorched Earth on an ancient PC. I downloaded the game a few years ago, and there was nothing I could do to slow it down from ridiculously fast. I probably didn’t have DOSbox, but I might have.
Good luck!
Joe
I remember playing Operation: Overkill on BBSes. Unfortunately even Mo’Slo on an Inspiron 7K wouldn’t slow it down enough to make it playable as a single player. 
I shudder to think what it’d look like on a multi-core machine these days. 
But I’ll keep an eye on this thread to see if any of that might be of help.
Those are some sort of files for DOS Protected Mode Interface. Download the ZIP file it’s asking for here and extract the files to your DOSBox folder.