Oil Imperium: pipelining impossible? \ VOGONS

Oil Imperium: pipelining impossible?

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First post, by Jackie78

Posted on 2006-07-22, 06:46

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Hi,

the pipelining game in Oil Imperium runs too fast, no matter how slow I set the cpu cycles, when I have "problems" selling oil, I reduce the cycles to a minimum, but still the computer is too fast building his own pipeline. The rest of the game slows down perfectly, only the computer-based pipelining seems not to be affected. 🙁 Any ideas how to fix this?

cu,

Jackie

Reply 1 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2006-07-22, 18:30

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That part is timer-controlled so it will always be the same speed
whether you run it on a fast PC (high cycles) or a slow PC (low
cycle count).
The rest of the game (almost) runs as fast as it can, thus it is
possible to slow it down by reducing the cycles.

Reply 2 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2006-07-22, 21:22

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Try to not change the cycles when the game is running, that is
set them to 500 or so in dosbox.conf and don't touch them
afterwards (otherwise the timer initialization goes wrong).