#222 having trouble with slowing down my cpu

[ian douglas]

My understanding of dosemu was that I could use it to run my old DOS-based games by slowing the CPU speed within the emulator.

I have a P4 2.8GHz and am trying to run the first XCOM game. I've tried lots of settings and I'm a little stumped.

I've set $_cpu to "80686" and set $_cpuspeed to (2800), thinking the emulator would use these settings and step-down the architecture. XCOM still plays way too fast for me, even on the '5 second' time reference.

So I set $_cpu to "80386" and set $_cpuspeed to (33), and that hasn't helped either, it's just as fast.

Am I not setting something else that impacts this? I really would love the emulator to slow my CPU down (only within the emulator, of course) so I can play these old games.

Should I look for a separate utility for slowing the CPU under 'DOS', and run that before running my game within the emulator, or have I just misunderstood something in the documentation? Perhaps a HOWTO guide with examples like "If you own a P4 3GHz and want to step it down to a 386-25, do the following" or "If you own a dual core Intel 2.4GHz, and want to slow it to act like a 486-66, here's what you do"

Thanks!
Ian

[David Rock]

I would like to figure this out, too. I've tried various settings to slow down old BBS Door games, but I see the same result: no slowdown.