How do you SLOW the game down?

The diplomat · January 10, 2002, 20:07

I know this is going to sound really weird, especially to those with slow computers.

But I have tried to play SMAC on my new 1 GhZ, 256 Mb computer, and the game is insanely fast. The problem is that the game is too fast. The units move around so fast, you can hardly see what they did. The screens pop up too fast to see. It takes away some of the enjoyment.

How do you slow the game down?

big_canuk · January 10, 2002, 21:21

I have an old 386SX-16 kicking around, that I could sell to you, real cheap!

Kirnwaffen · January 11, 2002, 00:26

I wasn't aware that the game could be any slower.

Seriously though, I thought that you had to press enter to go through the pop ups.

Googlie · January 11, 2002, 01:05

And I assume that you have *unchecked* under the advanced preferences the "move units with orders quickly" as well as the "move all units quickly" and "fast battle resolution"?

(You get these from within the game by menu/game/advanced preferences)

G.

The diplomat · January 11, 2002, 10:01

Quote:

Originally posted by Googlie
And I assume that you have *unchecked* under the advanced preferences the "move units with orders quickly" as well as the "move all units quickly" and "fast battle resolution"?

yes, of course

Vytae · January 11, 2002, 10:25

I had this same problem when i bought my 1.2 gig,nothing to be done about it you quickly adapt tho.

Drago Sinio · January 11, 2002, 11:30

I find that a nice glass of Guiness Stout slows the game down considerably. No wait, thats me it slows down. Never mind.

johndmuller · January 11, 2002, 12:58

Maybe you need more Coffee to balance out the

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Todd Hawks · January 11, 2002, 13:41

There are a lot of slowdown programs available.

Try some searching sites (google, altavista,...)

mrdynamic · January 11, 2002, 13:47

Maybe the following may help. Start another CPU intensive task which loops, (ex. say a pgm counting to 1000 and starting over or something) and assign the multitasking options to smac and the CPU intensive task, giving the majority of the resources to the looping PGM:

To set multitasking options ....

1 Right-click the icon for the program’s shortcut you want to modify, and then click Properties.

2 In the Properties window, click the Misc tab.

3 Adjust the Idle Sensitivity slider:

To give a background program (the looper) more CPU resources, move the slider toward Low.
To give a foreground program fewer CPU resources (smac), move the slider toward High.

This might be different for you though, I have a older operating system ... if it is different try looking in your systems help under >>> multitasking options.

big_canuk · January 11, 2002, 13:49

Todd Hawks just reminded me. I read about some slowdown programs for "old" games at:

http://www.theunderdogs.org/

You should find some links there in the FAQ, etc.

(I have a suspicion that this has just decreased the resale value of my old 386SX-16)

Todd Hawks · January 13, 2002, 14:04

Now look what I found on my HD today

This little prog works fine for me. Try something like 50% to begin with.

Alex · January 16, 2002, 12:30

Play Civ3... you'll be happy with how fast SMAC is!

(Hmm... something tells me that I should not have posted this...)