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Article #35744Re: Is slowing my computer necessary?
From: DervMan
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:51
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:51
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"Majick" <pushthelionheart@y2j.com> wrote in message news:c7l32m$1n7$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk... > I have a Athlon 2600 and am about to load up my copy of UFO that was > optimised for running on PCs back in about 2000. Will I need to use one of > the pieces of software that can slow a processor down to run UFO properly on > my machine, or will the game run okay? > > I ask because I remember trying to play my 486-era copy of UFO on my old PII > 333 and being unable to cope with the scroll/movement speed, even with > everything set to '1'. > > Can anyone recommend a decent processor slower? I know when I was last in > this ng there were one or two that were quite popular. Well, I use SETI, which also fits in quite nicely with the theme! :) All you have to do is put SETI to have "Normal" processor priority, which makes quite a dent on X-Com's running speed. -- The DervMan www.dervman.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-feed1.de1.concert.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "DervMan" <dervman@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com Subject: Re: Is slowing my computer necessary? Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 21:51:36 +0100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2g7jorF54b4qU2@uni-berlin.de> References: <c7l32m$1n7$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: http://news.individual.net/abuse.html X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Ol7diu+6nsa6zuDPnd2UjA8prFCjnwoUvNWgJf0Jpd4U0/NwNi X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit