Heyyyyyyyo,
I have a Dell Dimension L1000R running Windows 98. Magic Carpet runs slow in Windows and extremely fast in pure DOS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I am as smooth as a gravy train with flaming biscuit wheels.
Yeah, it's one of those Goldilocks speed sensitive games. You can try your luck switching to high-res mode with the R key.
That slowed the game down a TON. Still insanely fast though. Is Magic Carpet any more forgiving with stuff like Bremze than Wing Commander? Maybe Throttle?
I am as smooth as a gravy train with flaming biscuit wheels.
You're better off playing the console port on PlayStation or Sega Saturn if you want to see that game run at it's "intended" speed.
Every Bullfrog game running in that 3D engine originally made for Magic Carpet has no concept of "fixed tickrate" like how Doom Engine fixed everything to 35 Hz. If you look at how that game was presented back when it was new you could see it speed up/down depending on what was actively happening in the renderer.
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Ah okay
I might try it in dosbox
The doom engine is awesome the way it handles speed and optimization
I am as smooth as a gravy train with flaming biscuit wheels.
DOSBox will not help you run Magic Carpet at the "intended " speed either, PCem setup to emulate the kind of system that existed when Magic Carpet released is your best possible option barring not having that kind of hardware but like I said; the engine has no "fixed timestep", it will speed up/down depending on what's happening and there's literally zero way to fix this.
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― Κυνικός Δράκων
Why won't dosbox work?
I am as smooth as a gravy train with flaming biscuit wheels.
DOSBox doesn't limit the video bus and has a flat cost for all instructions per cycle.
Bullfrog learned a lesson by 1995 (MC2 should be frame limited), though partially lapsed with Syndicate Wars....
Oh okay
You can't blame the early 3d games for trying to squeeze out the best performance
I am as smooth as a gravy train with flaming biscuit wheels.
If you want an 'as intended' look, Bad Influence! (a british videogame telly programme) had shown it off in '94. It's really slow.
DAMN that is slow! It's crazy how cpu throttling software exists but not any for video...
I am as smooth as a gravy train with flaming biscuit wheels.
leileilol wrote on 2024-07-24, 21:42:Bullfrog learned a lesson by 1995 (MC2 should be frame limited), though partially lapsed with Syndicate Wars....
I first saw Syndicate Wars circa 2001-2002. My brother borrowed it from a friend who was running it fine on an MMX 166, however my brother's Pentium III 733 run it insanely fast (especially at low res), so my brother gave up on it.
Years later I discovered that you can actually adjust game speed by using the + and - keys.
I think some other Bullfrog games implement this as well, though I'm not sure if the original Magic Carpet does as well.
