Computer running too fast - Odd but true!

Hugogo

Hugogo

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Hi,

Recently my pc has been running far too quickly. All of my games run at double speed its really frustrating! It gets solved by a restart some times but even that has started to fail me!

Anyone else had this problem?
 
Hugogo said:
Hi,

Recently my pc has been running far too quickly. All of my games run at double speed its really frustrating! It gets solved by a restart some times but even that has started to fail me!

Anyone else had this problem?
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System Spec?

Are you Overclocking at all?
 
Ooops yep the whole system spec:

Its an Dell Dimension 9150
Intel Pentium D 3.00 GHz
1024MB RAM
Radeon X600 (256Mb)(Omega 3.8.291 drivers)
Windows XP SP2 / DX 9.0c
(If you need any more info please do ask! :D)
The game im really having a bit of a head bashing session over at the moment is GTA:SA. The clock runs about 3 times too fast and the entire world seems to move at that speed too! Most frustrating. A restart used to fix it until this morning when no matter what it just keeps going like the clappers!!!

Thanks in advance.
 
Hugogo said:
Ooops yep the whole system spec:

Its an Dell Dimension 9150
Intel Pentium D 3.00 GHz
1024MB RAM
Radeon X600 (256Mb)(Omega 3.8.291 drivers)
Windows XP SP2 / DX 9.0c
(If you need any more info please do ask! :D)
The game im really having a bit of a head bashing session over at the moment is GTA:SA. The clock runs about 3 times too fast and the entire world seems to move at that speed too! Most frustrating. A restart used to fix it until this morning when no matter what it just keeps going like the clappers!!!

Thanks in advance.
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There is a cheat that makes the clock run fast. Have you entered any cheats?
 
I have tried that but it doesn't seem to slow it down at all (It says cheat activated when i entered it). I then reloaded an old game to make it as if i hadn't entered any cheats. This still didnt change anything.
 
GTA-VC was running too fast for me too. Turns out it's because I have a dual-core processor and the game doesn't like it very much. I installed AMDs dual-core optimiser and the problem was solved. Not entirely sure if Intel has a similar solution.
 
mrochester said:
GTA-VC was running too fast for me too. Turns out it's because I have a dual-core processor and the game doesn't like it very much. I installed AMDs dual-core optimiser and the problem was solved. Not entirely sure if Intel has a similar solution.
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I've heard about a few issues with that, just reminded me.

Check the GTA website for bugs.
 
This is normally the fault of SpeedStep (or Cool 'n' Quiet on AMD systems). Disable that in the BIOS and the chances are this will go away. I'm sure there's an easier way, but I don't suffer from this any more, so I've never looked into it.
 
this_is_gav said:
This is normally the fault of SpeedStep (or Cool 'n' Quiet on AMD systems). Disable that in the BIOS and the chances are this will go away. I'm sure there's an easier way, but I don't suffer from this any more, so I've never looked into it.
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Cool n Quiet wasn't the issue in my system because I don't actually use it. It was simply the fact that GTA-VC doesn't get along with dual-core processors.
 
I remember trying to play an old Bullfrog racing/killing game called hi-octane which came with one of our old computers (I think the Pentium 133) and it ran so fast it was impossible to control.
 
Hugogo said:
And im running an Intel system!
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Do people read posts? I did say SpeedStep (the Intel version) and just listed Cool 'n' Quiet for the sake of people using the search function.

This is known to affect many games, and while it's mainly older ones, it merely shows ignorance not to try it.
 
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