"I Need To Slow Everything Down!"

The Game Room
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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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[QUOTE=DocCathode]
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?
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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

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I have DosBox, how do I adjust the speed?

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[QUOTE=DocCathode]
I have DosBox, how do I adjust the speed?
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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.

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hmm, trying to run the program I want gets me the error message “Load error: No DPMI- get csdpmi*b.zip”

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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

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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. :frowning:

I shudder to think what it’d look like on a multi-core machine these days. :smiley: But I’ll keep an eye on this thread to see if any of that might be of help.

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[QUOTE=DocCathode]
hmm, trying to run the program I want gets me the error message “Load error: No DPMI- get csdpmi*b.zip”
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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.