I found a solution that's worked every single time for me. It has to do with some F key commands in the World of Xeen game. I documented the fix: "Switching CDs in MIGHT AND MAGIC WORLD OF XEEN: Being that it's a 2 disc game, you'll be prompted at some point to switch between discs. An in-game …

I'm dealing with the exact same issue and increasing the CPU cycles does not solve the problem: Ultima 7 issue - pauses while moving, every few steps 5000 cycles does seem to be roughly the proper game speed. I wonder if the devs have figured out a workaround for this.

I scanned all the previous Ultima 7 threads before posting this to make sure that this particular issue hadn't been thoroughly addressed yet (it was mentioned once before but no relevent information was given on a fix). First, let me just say that I'm well aware of Exult and while I'm impressed with …