saruman on 12/12/2005 at 17:57
I installed Deus Ex and everything runs great, except for the speed of the game. I run it on notebook, Win XP SP2, the hardware is according.
The game runs too fast and I have no idea why is that, nor how to solve the problem. thank you for and ideas...
Saruman
Dr. Dumb_lunatic on 12/12/2005 at 18:05
I'm assuming that a notebook is a laptop-esque thing (please excuse my lack of technical knowledge).
If so: this is a common complaint: the reason behind it is that laptops alter their processor speed, shifting to lower speeds when they don't need hard-c0re processing skillz, since it saves battery power.
If you install when it's doing this, it'll remember the lower value, and thus, when you play at a higher processor speed, everything will speed up.
So: cheap and easy fix, reinstall when the laptop is plugged into the mains.
Otherwise wander over to PDX ((
www.forumplanet.com/planetdeusex)) and look in the technical forum for this very same topic, since it comes up a lot.
Actually, probably do a search here, too.
Marecki on 13/12/2005 at 00:04
You may want to get CPU Grabber, Turbo or any other proggy of this kind, then fire it up before playing and set the cpu-grabbing intensity to a desirable level. Helps with a lot of old games, plus it tends to work even with variable-speed processors - all you have to do is set the grabbing to high enough values and the CPU should go right up to its top speed.
