Problem: GTA San Andreas is way too fast

stockriderman

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everything is moving extremely fast. It's like everything at least twice as fast.. I hope this isn't because of my cpu. Any ideas? Maybe I pressed something to trigger it?
 

Concillian

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I think someone else with an X2 was experiencing this and posted here or in the CPU forum, perhaps search will help.
 

stockriderman

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Yep,it's dual core. I disabled 1 cpu and it's normal now. I guess I'll be running it on 1 cpu from now on. With 2 cpu's the speed is so fast,you can't see the cars,when they hit you...
 

Lonyo

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Can you not use the frame rate limiter to slow it down? Or did they take FRL out of GTA:SA?
 

Elcs

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Originally posted by: Lonyo
Can you not use the frame rate limiter to slow it down? Or did they take FRL out of GTA:SA?

Frame Limiter is in.
 

Maetryx

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Frame Limiting appears to be nothing more than enabling Vertical Synchronization, BTW. I don't see nasty tearing when I pan around when I have it turned on, but I do when it is disabled.

I'm having the way too fast play problem as well, usually when I'm indoors, say at the save point or the gym. But sometimes when I'm outside. And, yes, I do have a X2 processor.

So, how do we disable a core? And, for the record, that sucks if that is the only solution. Good grief... I haven't had a PC too fast for a computer game since the old days when the games assumed they would be on a 8MHz machine and I had 33MHz.
 

Maetryx

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Nevermind. FYI, there is a lot of good information on this issue in the CPU forum.
 

rise

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yeah, get the MSFT dual core patch in the cpu forum and you're good to go. no need to set affinity.
 

Maetryx

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Originally posted by: BroeBo
Turn off your turbo...

ha ha! Once I sold a computer to a guy and he called and said, "what's wrong with this computer???? Suddenly it's all slow and I don't get it! I didn't do anything different!" I said "did you accidentally hit the Turbo button?" Silence. 'Yeah, that fixed it. Thanks." *click*
 

evilharp

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Originally posted by: Maetryx
Originally posted by: BroeBo
Turn off your turbo...

ha ha! Once I sold a computer to a guy and he called and said, "what's wrong with this computer???? Suddenly it's all slow and I don't get it! I didn't do anything different!" I said "did you accidentally hit the Turbo button?" Silence. 'Yeah, that fixed it. Thanks." *click*

Memories of my old 286. Turbo on (24mhz) for new games, turbo off (12mhz) to try and play my old XT stuff...
 

eLiu

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Too fast? LOL

Man that's great...I remmeber when this was an issue playing 486 & earlier games on like, a pentium pro...hahaha