My notebook is too fast! @#$%$!!!

There's just one thing that's better than sliced bread, and that is old lucasarts games. Monkey island, xwing series, you name them, I have them.

Problem is, My 1029 won't play along with them. Monkey Island 3 (my favorite RPG) will go through the ship sinking cut scene that is supposed to last about a minute in less than 15 seconds, and the game crashes. The tie fighter collector's CD won't let me go past Battle 6 Mission 3 because for some weird reason the assault transports just sit on their butts and won't capture the platform.

I've installed every single patch, ran the games in every single compatibility mode, and still no go.

So the way I see it, either I start playing newer games or get creative.

BTW, anyone selling a pentium II box?

 

If the games you want to play are old enough, try DOSbox. It is the best DOS emulator out there - I have used to it play Castles2, goblins, Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, and a variety of old DOS favorites. As long as your old games still support DOS, give it a try (should support the old X-wing/tie fighter at least, don't know about Curse of Monkey Island).

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

 

I have a pentium 2 box(400mhz) lol. Or you can take my celeron(466mhz) box lol.

 

It's probably your GPU, not your CPU. Try using one of ATI's drivers and tweaking with the settings.

 

Have you tried underclocking the CPU?

 

I know same here! I own Monster Trucks from 9 years ago, its a sweet game, great graphics too which is pretty hard to believe. Runs so fast that it scares me... I cant even control the trucks speed when racing its all so fast