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"Majick" <pushthelionheart@y2j.com> wrote in message
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> 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

You could try this turbo app that allows you to set the entire speed of the
computer:
http://www.xcomufo.com/turbo.zip

But I think the best thing would be to get a dos version of the game and
play it with the msdos emulator called dosbox. Not only does it offer a
decent speed through all aspects of the game, you can also take advantage of
the prepatched version of xcom that have working original sound effect and
music. You can find info for getting it to work with xcom here:
http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2989

Hope that helps.


-Micah
micahdg@xcomufo.com
www.xcomufo.com



"Majick" <pushthelionheart@y2j.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

"Majick" <pushthelionheart@y2j.com> wrote:

>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?

If you have the Collector's Edition version, it should run OK.  But
you will probably need the display fix which Micah mentions in your
other thread.

> You could try this turbo app that allows you to set the entire speed of
the
> computer:
> http://www.xcomufo.com/turbo.zip
>
Yeah, I tried that. Seems like you need to set it to different speeds for
battlescape and geoscape though...

I actually found an X-Com page that offered two .dll files for UFO and TFTD.
You'd double-click the .dll, which would then open a box in which you could
choose which program you wanted to run (in this case UFO) and it worked
fine, no graphics hassle, no speed problems. Problem is, I just tried out
XCOMUtil and it seems to have wiped the .dll off my computer, and now I
can't find the page where I downloaded it from :-( Only X-Com could drive
tme to such heights of distraction to find a stupid poxy file like this. I
know the two files were called xcom1.dll and xcom2.dll... Does anyone know
where I might be able to find them to download again?

Thanks, again, in advance...

One very frustrated X-Com Commander Majick

I really think you are talking about the most recent version of f0dder's
loader, which can be found here:
http://f0dder.schwump.net/misc.htm
It includes a patch.dll, and when you double-click ldr_xcom1.exe, it opens a
box in which you can choose which program you want to run, such as UFO. But,
that might not be it, anyway. If it is not, please let me know when you find
the program you had; I would be very interesting in it. Thanks



-Micah
micahdg@xcomufo.com
www.xcomufo.com


"Majick" <pushthelionheart@y2j.com> wrote in message
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> > You could try this turbo app that allows you to set the entire speed of
> the
> > computer:
> > http://www.xcomufo.com/turbo.zip
> >
> Yeah, I tried that. Seems like you need to set it to different speeds for
> battlescape and geoscape though...
>
> I actually found an X-Com page that offered two .dll files for UFO and
TFTD.
> You'd double-click the .dll, which would then open a box in which you
could
> choose which program you wanted to run (in this case UFO) and it worked
> fine, no graphics hassle, no speed problems. Problem is, I just tried out
> XCOMUtil and it seems to have wiped the .dll off my computer, and now I
> can't find the page where I downloaded it from :-( Only X-Com could drive
> tme to such heights of distraction to find a stupid poxy file like this. I
> know the two files were called xcom1.dll and xcom2.dll... Does anyone know
> where I might be able to find them to download again?
>
> Thanks, again, in advance...
>
> One very frustrated X-Com Commander Majick
>
>

> I really think you are talking about the most recent version of f0dder's
> loader, which can be found here:
> http://f0dder.schwump.net/misc.htm
> It includes a patch.dll, and when you double-click ldr_xcom1.exe, it opens
a
> box in which you can choose which program you want to run, such as UFO.
But,
> that might not be it, anyway. If it is not, please let me know when you
find
> the program you had; I would be very interesting in it. Thanks
>

Huh. f0dder's patch certainly seems to work. I'm still not sure it's the one
I dowloaded yesterday, but problem solved :-) Thanks!