I'm looking for a Windows utility that will allow me to lower my CPU speed on my laptop so that I can play some legacy games (mainly Descent2).

The game is running too fast. The ship is bouncing up and down rather than floating. The weapons fire faster, which is kind of cool, but it's getting old.

Any suggestions??

hmm coundn't you be able to lower the Multiplier and  FSB in the system's Bios, thereby underclock'n it CPU and Memory Bus speed as well?

Could it be that you're just encountering the typical Anomaly when using older Games on a system with dynamic clockspeed ?

If so, set Energy Management of your Notebook to "High Performance" or "Desktop" (or alike) to set CPU speed to its fixed maximum. As soon as it is constant, you shouldn't witness the anomaly anymore...

(same happens with Unreal Tournament for example, real funny speeding around and seeing everything happen at 300% speed *g*)

If you have an AMD based laptop, you have an MP processor. That means that you can adjust multiplier and V-Core from windows using a small utility, called CpuMsr. It might work on Intel as well, but I'm not sure.

used be a program around called Mo-slo that, when launched, would ask what percentage to run the cpu at. Used to have to use it to play the first two Might and Magic games on it. Not sure it if it's still around or how it works with the new CPU's but it's worth a look on google.

Yeah, there are a few of those CPU-killer programs around.  They just burn up CPU cycles so your legacy game only gets a small percentage of them.  I used Mo-Slo to play WC Prophecy so the movies would run OK on my 1.33 T-Bird a few years back.

Not sure where you'd find it now.

3D Realms has a couple of the slow-down programs:

http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html

Check the Miscellaneous Downloads section at the bottom of the page.

CPU Kill works well with Win98 SE, but I don't know how well it works with an NT-kernel OS.

I downloaded CPUkill from 3Drealms. Works well. Looks like it has a 30day time limit. That sould give me enough time to eval the proggy.

I'm 500 miles from home on business for 3 weeks and only a laptop for gaming. Not much of a laptop at that. It has an Intel 915 Express Video, Intel 1300 Celeron M, 512MB running XP Pro.

I did get D2X-XL running on it ;D That sould keep me busy, I have tons of add-on missions.

lol poor gamma, hope you get home soom  :)

Well they did let me come home for the weekend. I'm getting ready to fly back up north, About 100 miles north of Sacramento. Dang it's cold up there :-X

lol it snowed here last 2 days

What's your elevation there?

around 5000, were in a bowl shaped valley, the hills go up to about 6000 i think, 3 days straight now, just a little each day, none so far today though...


ok i feel like a hijacker........if you use this program can it help with 2001se test scores?