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Old 04-03-2007, 12:52 AM   #1
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Hi there everyone!

I just found myself the windows copy (gold edition) of X-Com: UFO Defence. I got it to work on my Windows XP by decreasing the hardware acceleration - however there is still one very annoying problem...

In battle mode - the scrolling, the fire movement, and everything in general is running at near light speed! Even if I set everything to 1 it's still too fast to control. :wallbash:

Is there any way I can get around this? Some way to drastically slow down game speed?

Anyone willing to help a gamer-girl out?

Thanks guys! k:

- Sofia
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Old 05-03-2007, 07:30 AM   #2
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Download the dosbox. You can slow down games with it.
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Old 06-03-2007, 11:21 AM   #3
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or get program slowing your processor down, like slowdown
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You could also try vdmsound, it works fine with X-com
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Old 07-03-2007, 09:02 AM   #5
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And if none of the above work (which i doubt) try using compatibility mode... if that doesn't work either, start the game, alt + tab to desktop, press ctrl + alt + del, goto the processes tab, r-click the .exe and select the highest priority mode. i know it sounds awkward but it actually slows down the clocking speed of your cpu. xp is a strange thing. hope it helps.
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