Game speed issue

[Meowster]

Beyond Reality runs like POOPOO on this computer. This isn't my computer, it's somebody elses. It runs as if it's in slow motion. The question is this: WHY!??

1.47GHz
256MB RAM
AMD Athlon somethinoranother

Also running like poopoo are Pirate Fry II and Buccaneer, which run fine on my PC. Hm?

[juncmodule]

it's probably:

A) Direct X problems (update)
B) Monitor problems (check the refresh rate)
C) Video Card problems (how much ram?)

Since the games run fine elsewhere I would check out those things. I think YakSpit was having problems playing games at work. I believe they were DirectX related.

My 166MHZ laptop with 80MB of ram runs AGS games fairly well. Sometimes they run slow, I blame the 2MB video card.

later,
-junc

[Ishmael]

My 266MHz 96Mb RAM 2Mb videoRAM DX 9 runs lo-res hi-color games fast enough... but hi-res is in a slight slow motion... It's either DirectX or Video card... or some other aplication is using up all the RAM, and the computers is low on swapfile space also...

[Meowster]

Right so how would I solve the Direct X problem? Is this like that time I had to turn direct X off/down/something to play the cutscenes from MI3?

I think this computer is on XP.

And should I turn the refresh rate up or down? It's on 75hertz.

[Pumaman]

Yeah, 1.47 Ghz is more than enough to run any AGS game at full speed. If you're running it in a window, try it fullscreen (or vice versa). Update to the latest version of DirectX ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx?url=/windows/directx/downloads/default.htm ).

If that doesn't help, you could try updating the graphics card driver. Often, the default one that Windows installs is good enough for word processing and so on, but doesn't support the fast graphics access that games need. See if you can find out what graphics card it has, and download updated drivers from the relevant (probably NVidia or ATI) website.