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Celtic Tales

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First post, by KKew

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mobo: Abit NF7-S (nforce 2)
Proc: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
RAM: 1024mb DDR 333mhz ram
Vid: Nvidia GeForce 5200 128mb ram (not sure how to determine type, sorry)
sound: nForce audio
OS: Windows XP professional
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye

Description: The game runs INCREDIBLY slow. I'm talking 1 frame every 5 seconds. I hear one note of midi music every 5 seconds. THAT slow.

Reproducibility - Always happens when I start up. No abatement.

Sound mode: I have the game set for sound blaster, changing it to no audio didn't fix it.

Video mode: VGA on the game. I'm running my desktop at 1024x768 in... I dunno what kind of mode. 32-bit color, but I don't really know if it is opengl or anything like that. sorry.

Version - Dosbox 0.61

Steps taken - I hit ctrl and f8 up to 10 for the frameskip. It didn't do anything. I hit (and held) ctrl and f12 until the cpu cycles were somewhere in the 400k range. It also did nothing. There are instructions for making a boot disk, but I have no floppy drive (just a cd-rom, and I can't burn at that). I read the readme, but it didn't really help. I am hoping you could.

Reply 1 of 3, by KKew

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I should also note that I own the CD-ROM version of the game (not sure if there are any other versions or not).

Reply 2 of 3, by Harekiet

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400k cycles and it still went slow, damn you don't say

Reply 3 of 3, by Guest

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Alright: Have you tried 10k cycles or so? I honestly dont think you started at ~5000 cycles and went up in small increments, and 10k is near the cap of my 2100+... meaning I strongly doubt you can handle 40 times more on a CPU barely faster.

At around 11k/12k JA/Rampart/Stronghold/etc all start to run really slow on my computer, just like you describe.