Just to add a few games I am testing which are not listed in the Vogons Wiki:

• Blackthorne - music won't play
• Dark Forces - General MIDI causes system to lock up
• Police Quest II - intro sequence animations are speed sensitive
• Titus the Fox - music plays back incorrectly

Some that came to mind and didn't notice on that wiki page:

- Terminal Velocity (mouse sensitivity gets sluggier and sluggier the faster the CPU is)
- Star Wars: TIE Fighter (same as with Terminal Velocity, but also it affects enemy behavior
- The Incredible Machine (runs way too fast, sound/music issues)

Also the installers of Mortal Kombat II and Raptor: Call of the Shadows are CPU speed sensitive, but the actual game doesn't seem to be.

One game I could not get to work at all using DOSBox on a P4 was a freeware, it was found in one of my 50+ DOS games CD:s, called 'Find Felix the Cat', and it had issues with fast computers, also according to the developer who I got in contact with. It was made to run on old 8088 PC:s and DOSBox speed limits could not throttle it enough, and it just displayed nonsense graphics and crashed.

Some other are DOS flightsims:
1990 Stormovik by EA had issues with getting off the ground on fast machines, but there was a workaround for this, by speeding up time.
1995 EF2000 by DiD has an issue with a certain missile that managed to fly through enemy planes without doing any harm, on machines with Pentium CPU:s > 120MHz, due to how the game sampled the missile location.

• Brix can occasionally crash at startup and when it doesn't you will get noisy garbled sound.
• For a game based on the Wolfenstein 3-D engine, Corridor 7's color-cycling effects and gun bobbing are way too fast.
• Although not seen as a speed-sensitive game, Ken's Labyrinth on faster computers has some rendering issues at 360x240 and then there is the situation with opening/closing doors at a fast rate.

Might & Magic Book One text speed is not only speed-sensitive, but also doesn't respond very well to throttling via cache disables. It works correctly with a Turbo XT's deturbo mode.

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-05-07, 16:15:

Just to add a few games I am testing which are not listed in the Vogons Wiki: […]
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Just to add a few games I am testing which are not listed in the Vogons Wiki:

• Blackthorne - music won't play
• Dark Forces - General MIDI causes system to lock up
• Police Quest II - intro sequence animations are speed sensitive
• Titus the Fox - music plays back incorrectly

I've found that I need to slow the P4 down to about the equivalent of 900MHz to get General MIDI to work in Dark Forces.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2024-05-07, 19:52:

• Although not seen as a speed-sensitive game, Ken's Labyrinth on faster computers has some rendering issues at 360x240 and then there is the situation with opening/closing doors at a fast rate.

I was just going to mention this one. I ran into back in the 90's where the game can be unplayable even on a
75 MHz Pentium.

Where in the World is Carmen San Diego Deluxe has a timing bug in the Sound Blaster drivers that cause the sound FX to fail at high CPU speeds (the game and OPL music continue to run). I have to disable the caches to get sounds FX to work.

I think Bullfrogs original "Theme Park" is worth a look. Even if you slow it down, it never feels quite right.