Poll for reviving an old game for one night!

Pick your old game to revive


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Haven

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I'm sure we'll get around to doing multiple events but this poll is for the first event night. I've picked the top three games that were mentioned so far so get voting. Further polls will include other games that get a lot of mention in the original thread so keep going with it!
 

Iron_fist

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i'm having "issues" with UT where the game runs either ridiculously fast or at a total crawl and i'm not totally sure why as the frame rate is pretty constant at 0.03ms (the "stat fps" doesn't actually show fps just render time :/)
 

BiG D

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i'm having "issues" with UT where the game runs either ridiculously fast or at a total crawl and i'm not totally sure why as the frame rate is pretty constant at 0.03ms (the "stat fps" doesn't actually show fps just render time :/)

It has to do with the game not knowing what your processor is. There's some command line switches and stuff. I'll dig them up when I get home.
 

DeZmond

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It has to do with the game not knowing what your processor is. There's some command line switches and stuff. I'll dig them up when I get home.

You need to use the following command line:
Code:
-cpuspeed=xx000
Where xx000 is replaced with your processor speed in Megahertz.
 

Iron_fist

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i think it must be to do with the cool and quiet stepping the CPU down to 1GHz when there are not enough cycles as the -cpuspeed switch has very little effect. I shall have another play and see if i can work out how to stabilise it
 

DeZmond

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Try halving your speed using the cpuspeed switch. On my 1.6ghz laptop I usually set the speed to 800mhz, and it seems to be okay in terms of speed. Other than that, you can try getting a newer opengl dll for UT (quick google search will turn up a few nice ones) which will slow the game down a bit by enabling some extra niceness. :)
 

BiG D

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hmm! Also! You running dual cpus by any chance? You may need to set the process to only use one.
 

Iron_fist

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seems like -cpuspeed=2200 -nommx fixes it for me though it does still seem to run rather fast (however i can still nail godlike bots with +5 :) )

scratch that it helps but there is a weird bug where by if your machine is outputting more than 200FPS then the game looses sync and it either speeds up or slows down but the trickiest part is getting the CPU speed balanced so it stays at either at minimum or maximum
 
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elDiablo

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AvP (1, sorry D!) but I'm happy with UT as well. TA was annoying to set up for me!
 

Haven

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Ok Unreal Tournament it is - I'll dig out my old files and see what we can do about setting up a server and then I'll post an event.
 
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