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F1RS unplayable on Celeron 450a

6 posts by 4 people · 02 Nov 1998 - 03 Nov 1998

Jarrod Smit 02 Nov 1998#431974
I just upgraded my system from a PPro 200/Voodoo2 to Celeron 450a/SLI and now F1RS is unplayable because it runs *way* too fast! I timed the clock in the game (the one that times your laps, etc.) and 1 minute on that clock equals about 35 seconds real time. It's like watching the game in fast forward. Does anybody have a solution to this??!! This sucks, I haven't even scratched the surface of this game yet! -- Jarrod Smith The Scripps Research Institute http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith
> I just upgraded my system from a PPro 200/Voodoo2 to Celeron 450a/SLI and > now F1RS is unplayable because it runs *way* too fast! I timed the clock in > the game (the one that times your laps, etc.) and 1 minute on that clock > equals about 35 seconds real time. It's like watching the game in fast > forward. This is a wild guess: the game has to synchronize itself to real time somehow. If the relative speed of the PC is measured during installation and then saved to hard disk you would end up like that. I would try to delete some ini-files (assuming the game can rebuild them) of reinstall the game. Does your PC display time correctly? -- Mikko Harjula SQ Consulting Oy | If you email me from a tel. +358-3-3165206 33720 Tampere | use subject "I AM NOT SPAM" fax +358-3-3165201 FINLAND |
Jalo 03 Nov 1998#432183
Yeah, try running your Celeron at it's correct speed, 300Mhz.
Jarrod Smit 03 Nov 1998#432184
My PC keeps time perfectly, and I had already reinstalled everything from scratch. UBIsoft says it is probably due to overclocking (they had other reports like this from O/Cers) and they won't do anything about it. :-( Thanks for you suggestion though. Jarrod Smith The Scripps Research Institute http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith
Quoted text (7 lines)>This is a wild guess: the game has to synchronize itself to real time >somehow. If the relative speed of the PC is measured during >installation and then saved to hard disk you would end up like that. >I would try to delete some ini-files (assuming the game can rebuild >them) of reinstall the game. >Does your PC display time correctly?
Greg Cisko 03 Nov 1998#432185
Well what about people with normal P2-400's? Is this still a problem? Or is this only a problem with overclocked Celery CPU's? -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com >My PC keeps time perfectly, and I had already reinstalled everything from >scratch. UBIsoft says it is probably due to overclocking (they had other >reports like this from O/Cers) and they won't do anything about it. :-( >Thanks for you suggestion though. >Jarrod Smith >The Scripps Research Institute >http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith >>This is a wild guess: the game has to synchronize itself to real time >>somehow. If the relative speed of the PC is measured during >>installation and then saved to hard disk you would end up like that. >>I would try to delete some ini-files (assuming the game can rebuild >>them) of reinstall the game. >>Does your PC display time correctly?
Jarrod Smit 03 Nov 1998#432186
Excellent question. This is precisely what I'm looking to find out. I'm out and about searching for info. Anyone who reads this please let me know if you hear something or if you are running a non-overclocked machine with the 100MHz FSB and can test this. Thanks! Jarrod Smith The Scripps Research Institute http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith >Well what about people with normal P2-400's? Is this still >a problem? Or is this only a problem with overclocked >Celery CPU's?

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