Just seen your previous post about coolnquiet, yeah I've got that running. Could that be a problem.

What like? I don't really play games. I'm tempted to get an artic cooler as there only £6, and jam it on.

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to put the game on the shelf for a bit, its was only £2 off ebay anyway. My computer is 1 1/2 years old and there is a bit of dust in the case, nothing major, so heat sink could need resetting and some thermal paste being re-applied. I was thinking about getting a …

Well I've just had 10 minutes on magic carpet 2. My starting temp was about 30c and when I finished the session the CPU was around 75c. I'd say that was very hot and not really worth stressing my CPU for a single game. Shame really as MC2 looked really good.

I've been trying to get Magic Carpet 2 to run since yesterday and just now found dos box's games list, where someone had commented about increasing the CPU cycles to 80000. I tried it and magic carpet 2 runs fine, even at high res. But my CPU performance is at 100% and dos box's help sections says …