Hi there

Hoping you can help, I have been on hols for the last week or so and indulging in a nostalgic binge of old gaming. It's been fine up until now (which has been quite surprising)

All SQs, all KQs, Monkey Isl 1 + 2, Kyrandia series... all working , until now.. I have played through PQ 1 and 2 and am now on PQ3

For some reason, when I exit the police station and go into the first driving section, everything plays out too fast. I fly through a stop sign and hit the curb, dying instantly. I only have a split second before ths happens.

I have tried reducing the actual game speed while in game right down to slowest, this has no effect.

Is this a known error and/or is there a way I can fix this?

One other weird thing that happens (not sure if its related) is, when sonny is standing in a room, his head flicks left and right REALLY fast, it looks like he is out of the exorcist and his head is spinning around!!! as I said not sure if this is related... just wondering if maybe I have a bad copy (d/l from abandonia) and if so, where I can d/l another one.

THANKS!

Hmmm... just a random, off-the-top-of-my-head idea, but try INcreasing the CPU cycles in DOSbox. Sometimes this has the effect of making it slow down, for reasons I can't be bothered to explain.

I assume you are using DOSbox? Because if not, then you should definitely try that first.

My memory must be dying, I was pretty sure driving was taken out in Pq3. But I had that exact problem in pq1 VGA version. I'll dl the version here and see if it works
edit:
I'm really tired! It seems I mixed Pq3 with Blue force

thanks flam, can you let me know how it goes??

the actual driving module was pretty much removed but you still have to go between destinations..

Blackmage I would like to use dosbox, I just d/l it..but have no idea how to use it..

Newbie Guide to DOSBox.

If you don't use DOSBox or a CPU killer, then it's no wonder why you have speed issues. I am pretty surprised you managed to get thru all the previous games you mentioned without those! :ok:

ah.. too easy, thanks for the link

it's fixed the problem except that now im playing in a window. Im sure there is a way to ryun dos box progs in f/s,. just got to work this out now. thanks again

.. now wheres that old map of lytton for PQ3? :cheers:

Simply hit ALT-Enter and you will be set in full screen.

Happy gaming. :)

beauty - thanks all, you've been very helpful. Great forum.

If you still have trouble with DOSbox then D-Fend will help a lot:

http://members.home.nl/mabus/dfend.htm