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Recently I've been playing a lot of old Windows games and a lot of them have this problem where they speed up to the point where it's unplayable. I am running most of the games thru a Windows 98 installation on VMware but they are still too fast and there's no option in VMware to slow down the cpu-speed.Do you guys have any ideas on how to fix this? I've tried lowering the affinity for VMware but it doesnt work. It's still too fast.I accidentally posted this in the wrong subforum.
DOS Games Running too fast? There was a utility I used to use on dos to slow down my computer for old apps. It was called moslo. No idea where to find it now. Wanted to slow down the computer. When you were done, you would type 'exit' and the computer was back to normal. A very simple and easy way to slow the computer. Hi, I'm trying to play some old windows game via wine, with default cpu frequency the game is to fast, If i set frequency around 1GHz game acts as it should, so I want to make desktop shortcut to automate process and I doesn't really know how to write script that will set lower cpu frequency and launch the game and after quiting the game it will reset the cpu policy. Any help is appreciate.
Tried to find the answer in Tutorials but couldnt find it. Perhaps a mod could move this thread into Troubleshooting for me. Tricky question.Try a CPU killer app as moslo for win or similar running in the VM, however the outcome in a VM is unpredictable, trial and error will be your destiny.Or try to open some background minimized apps in the VM, notebook. Music player even?Keep the VM busy a bit?
Can of course cause some lagging in your games.In VPC you can lower guest mem setting for the VM, can't you in VmWare? Should slow things down a bit.What you should NOT do is trying to slow down your host PC. There are really a lot of 'non-tied to processor' Windows games, Eagle of Fire. Especially in Win95-98 era (so from 1995 to 2000). They are become unpredicable on fast machines and unplayable too.I used CPU Killer at some time, as I remember, on my Win98 and early WinXP.
It worked for me just fine. But then on WinXP I discovered Microsoft Virtual PC, and it mostly eliminated speed issues in most of games when I tried (maybe it was too slow, or maybe there is 'fix processor timing' somewhere, I dunno, as I didn't research it). Unfortunately, it was quite long ago - about 5-6 years now - so I cannot say how good it can work nowadays. EOF is right about games for DirectX (or previously WinG), but Windows 9x includes DOS and runs DOS programs natively, and was supposed to, so any game 'for Windows' from that time may be actually a DOS program. (Which doesn't mean the game could run on previous standalone versions, maybe it didn't run on DOS 6.x, but did on Windows 9x (or DOS 7 or higher), for whatever weird reason such as hardware.There's a pretty good way to know: games actually for the Windows API from that time, had to make it really clear that they required DirectX (or WinG) and usually included a version of these libraries in their installation disks. So if you see a game published for Windows 9x without DirectX (or WinG earlier) bundled in the installer, 95% chances are that it's a DOS program (even if it's designed for the Windows 9x environment).While at the same time, any game for DOS (6 or lower) may not need any modification to run in Windows. 95% of the time the problem was a high conventional memory requirement, which could sometimes be solved by 'booting in DOS mode' (i.e.
Starting Windows 9x normally but without the Windows part, only DOS 7.x); except sometimes this didn't cut it either if you had a modern sound card, as the SB16 emulation drivers took too much memory; plus having enough conventional memory was hard enough on DOS 6.x.Also I keep the prejudice that MS Virtual PC is better at emulating Windows (including DOS-on-Win9x!) than any competing software, such as VMware. If only because VPC is made by Microsoft, and so was Windows, and the latter's not open source. DOS was open source in practice-since it was coded in assembly and simple enough-and or Qbix among others cracked it all right.
Hello,I have been battling to diagnose an issue for the last 6 weeks or so - games that I run on my PC run in slow motion. They are beautifully rendered, the graphics are smooth and without fault, but everything moves slowly, as if watching a slow motion video.I have tried everything that I can think of and everything that I can come up with via Google search on similar issues.General PC performance is perfect; the only issue I seem to have is this in-game performance. I believe it is down to a driver issue because hardware isolation testing seems to suggest that compnenets are working, but I've tried rolling back to older versions of nVidia drivers without positive effect and similarly re-updated without positive effect.The system was built two years ago and the only upgrades made have been a new OS hardrive and a new PSU. The HDD has been in use for about 8 months without this issue being apparent.The timing of this issue and the upgrade of the PSU is suspicious (made in early January of this year), HOWEVER I have been able to get graphics working under two different graphics cards without this issue being apparent so I don't think this is down to lack of juice from the PSU.The reason I suggest this is that as part of my testing I installed a RADEON based card in place of my nVidia, got the same issue (I forget the model number an HD6750 I think; it was of a similar era to my GTX460). After spending a long time cleaning up drivers and driver reinstalls in-game performance came right under the RADEON card and ran well for a week, before I went back to my nVidia - which after driver reinstalls/clean ups etc.
Also ran well for a few days).So I figure if it was a PSU issue this could not have come right. I have never seen nor heard of a game running in slow motion. I have seen and heard of poor frame rates, lag and crappy performance but never plays smooth but in slow motion and I repair computers for a living.
Especially gaming computers. It sounds pretty strange.I would start checking each piece of your hardware and make sure the CPU is clocked correctly and has the correct voltage in your bios. Performance test your hard drives and your video with any of the many tools. Maybe your motherboard has an issue. Do you have more then one video card slot?
Unplug anything you can, add on cards, DVD burner, external devices and any hard drives not being used. Try a different keyboard and mouse as a long shot.Also unplug any USB case ports. I have had them short out before and cause strange problems. Little story-I had a video card that was top of the line (Best new tech just released) trying to play a older game once. Ran super great at first but after time performance started degrading.What usually occurs with graphic cards is they are already overclocked (same with some processors) when you buy it.
So they can sell it for the higher listed price of the new 'stats'What occurs though is with usage they will over heat and slowly start dying (actually fairly quick if you use them for 5ish hours a day in intense game).Possible issues-You have a infected computer. This can cause MAJOR performance issues from botnet running bitcoin farmer on your pc to general malware/virusNot enough power is supplied by the psuIt is starting to die. Low performance actually occurs before graphical issues when a graphic card dies.Driver issues tend to be bit different. Than just poor performance.Overclocking a graphic card lowers the length before it dies. Most suspect issues in OP's case.
When u are going to run a game where u are not going to use a game controller, if the game is known to act up, or u experience that. Unplug any game controllers before game launch. Given your GPU, fully uninstall your NVIDIA GPU drivers/software. Then clean install 314.22 WHQL. These are know to be some of the more stable drivers to date. When clean installing NVIDIA drivers, select Custom during installer, de-select NVIDIA Updater and 3D Vision if u don't need them.
Then check the 'Perform Clean Install' box. To ensure DirectX is fully up to date, use the one from called 'DirectX Runtime Redist - June 2010'. OS' to date after Vista release are known to be missing some needed DX files for certain versions. Once the June 2010 full installer has updated your DX runtime, download the smaller DirectX Web Updater and run that, which should finish very quickly if the June 2010 did the trick. Some drivers, apps, games; require other runtimes; Such as.NET Framework; Visual C (2005, 2008, 2010). Also make sure others are the latest available, such as Adobe Shockware, Flash, and Oracle Java.
Most runtimes also have two versions, x86 for 32bit OS, and x64 for 64bit OS. If you have 64bit OS, you should have both versions installed. Especially for Visual CAfter installing these key runtimes, ones like.NET Framework and Visual C should have further updates/hotfixes available via Windows Updates. So be sure to update them further this way. Originally posted by:Most suspect issues in OP's case. When u are going to run a game where u are not going to use a game controller, if the game is known to act up, or u experience that. Unplug any game controllers before game launch.
Given your GPU, fully uninstall your NVIDIA GPU drivers/software. Then clean install 314.22 WHQL.
These are know to be some of the more stable drivers to date. When clean installing NVIDIA drivers, select Custom during installer, de-select NVIDIA Updater and 3D Vision if u don't need them. Then check the 'Perform Clean Install' box. To ensure DirectX is fully up to date, use the one from called 'DirectX Runtime Redist - June 2010'. OS' to date after Vista release are known to be missing some needed DX files for certain versions. Once the June 2010 full installer has updated your DX runtime, download the smaller DirectX Web Updater and run that, which should finish very quickly if the June 2010 did the trick. Some drivers, apps, games; require other runtimes; Such as.NET Framework; Visual C (2005, 2008, 2010).
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Also make sure others are the latest available, such as Adobe Shockware, Flash, and Oracle Java. Most runtimes also have two versions, x86 for 32bit OS, and x64 for 64bit OS.
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If you have 64bit OS, you should have both versions installed. Especially for Visual CAfter installing these key runtimes, ones like.NET Framework and Visual C should have further updates/hotfixes available via Windows Updates. So be sure to update them further this way.I did this, and it fixed my slow motion for 1 hour or so. Now im back to slow motion again. Next thing to look for then would be to look at Task Manager Performance.Is your CPU getting taxed when idling/doing nothing?How much Available RAM is left?If the CPU is doing random spikes or loads of any real sort when u yourself aren't running a game or doing anything, click on Processes and see what task(s) are using the CPU.With any recent update to.NET Framework for example, after system reboot,.NET has to recompile it's database, and this can take some time and slow down Windows a bit. Course with your hardware specs, it shouldn't be slowing u down to where u'd notice it.Sound like u may have conflict between present AMD drivers and NVIDIA.
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It is quite common. Any switch of these two GPU types u should prepare the system properly by fully removing any old drivers.
Such as if you had a Radeon installed and are changing that out for NVIDIA, make sure to first fully uninstall any AMD GPU drivers before installing the NVIDIA card; or vice-versa. Originally posted by:Next thing to look for then would be to look at Task Manager Performance.Is your CPU getting taxed when idling/doing nothing?How much Available RAM is left?If the CPU is doing random spikes or loads of any real sort when u yourself aren't running a game or doing anything, click on Processes and see what task(s) are using the CPU.With any recent update to.NET Framework for example, after system reboot,.NET has to recompile it's database, and this can take some time and slow down Windows a bit. Course with your hardware specs, it shouldn't be slowing u down to where u'd notice it.Sound like u may have conflict between present AMD drivers and NVIDIA. It is quite common. Any switch of these two GPU types u should prepare the system properly by fully removing any old drivers. Such as if you had a Radeon installed and are changing that out for NVIDIA, make sure to first fully uninstall any AMD GPU drivers before installing the NVIDIA card; or vice-versa.Ive reformatted and reinstalled windows, and the problem still appears.
I do only have NVIDIA drivers installed, so i doubt its a conflict between those drivers. I don't see how we can really be of help for u any further then.Time to take it to a tech/pro. Let them troubleshoot it.How about a spare HDD, u try a reformat with a regular HDD to rule out your SSD. Or at least run an app that can check your SSD for quality/life loss.Since u tried two completely different model of GPUs and see the same results, not sure where else to go at this point. Could be MB, PSU, u name it.Make sure AHCI is enabled in BIOS for your SATA mode before OS install. Then after OS install, make sure to download latest Intel Chipset Drivers, which will also cover AHCI.
As without this, u can see alot of system performance lagg.Make sure your RAM settings are all setup correctly in BIOS. U said u updated BIOS, so I would recheck all your BIOS settings, just to be sure.