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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Lower CPU Clock Speed 18.02.06 at 19:09:04 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??
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #1 - 18.02.06 at 19:28:39 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?
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Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed
Reply #2 - 18.02.06 at 19:29:34

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*)

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mikulaish Full Member Offline Just a chemist... Posts: 120	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #3 - 18.02.06 at 19:32:06 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.
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jandarsun8 God Member Offline Posts: 712 Minneapolis, MN Gender:	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #4 - 18.02.06 at 23:21:38 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.
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Renner Full Member Offline Frequent Failure Posts: 109 Alberta, Canada Gender:	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #5 - 19.02.06 at 00:16:28 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.
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akula65 Full Member Offline Don't Feed the Trolls Posts: 155 Gender:	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #6 - 19.02.06 at 21:07:28 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.
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Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed
Reply #7 - 20.02.06 at 05:42:46

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 Grin

That sould keep me busy, I have tons of add-on missions.

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BFG3dfx Ex Member	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #8 - 20.02.06 at 07:10:35 lol poor gamma, hope you get home soom
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #9 - 20.02.06 at 18:55:56 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
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BFG3dfx Ex Member	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #10 - 20.02.06 at 19:17:46 lol it snowed here last 2 days
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #11 - 22.02.06 at 03:35:49 What's your elevation there?
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BFG3dfx Ex Member	Re: Lower CPU Clock Speed Reply #12 - 22.02.06 at 04:48:56 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?
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