game speed tied to CPU speed?

[dakels]

I get a weird problem which I have seen before with emulators. My game speed seems to be tied to my CPU speed or FSB? I don't know. All I know is that when I OC my quad this 1 game which is very emulator-ish (Virtua Tennis 3) goes too fast. (I am using a windows application that came with my ASUS P5Q Pro to OC) MAME Emulators I used to use did this too. I forget what this phenomena is called.

Anyone know a way around this other then not OC?

 

[Chosonman]

I felt the same thing with Star Craft. The scroll speeds were unbelievably faster with my newer computers that with my Pentium 3 128 mb.

 

[tranceport]

Hit the turbo button. 😉

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: tranceport
Hit the turbo button. 😉

Time to bust out my ol' 386 then.

 

[TheVrolok]

Same thing happens to me when I play the old Sierra adventure games on newer PCs. I used to use a program called Turbo that would effectively reduce my processor speed to any fraction I wanted - this would make the games run properly (slowly). That was years ago on a P2, P3, and P4. I have no idea what it would do now under Vista or with a Quad Core

 

[coldmeat]

I don't know if this the same or not, but I recently got Vice City for Xbox and I've been playing it on my 360, and it's way faster than it should be.

 

[StinkyPinky]

I like to play Ultima 7 from time to time (1993?), and that game runs at about 1000 miles an hour unless I use some program to limit the CPU.

 

[dakels]

VT3 is a newer game (2007) but it is a console port. Like I said before I notice this effect a lot on emulator games. Turbo button ftw but in this case 200mph serves = me lose.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: tranceport
Hit the turbo button. 😉

Time to bust out my ol' 386 then.

Sorry, the 8088 chip. 10mhz in Turbo mode!

 

[RandomFool]

I had that problem with scorched earth. I used a program called CPU Killer to slow things down so it'd work right.