Here's a program to slow CE Xcom (windows version)

[localhosed]

My favorite program for slowing down just about any program is here :

 

http://mion.faireal.net/BES/

 

I'm using it to help slowdown tactical mode's animations on my ~3.7 year old PC.

You can give a limit of percentage of normal cpu time to any running process.

You can use "watch" to wait for UFO Defense.exe to start running to use fullscreen without alt-tabbing. You may have to do this twice for BES to recognize the program, i don't know why.

 

The slowdown is usually not as steady as having a slower computer especially at extremely low percentages given to the program, but it is steadier than other slowdown programs i have used and it has been very stable and effective for me with a variety of games.

 

I haven't had a program crash that I can attribute to BES.

 

If you're using a split exe like with Xcomutil, i just point it to tactical.exe. No known problems yet, except for you may need to adjust movement/fire speeds faster to compensate to your liking.

 

I'm running XCOM CE at 30% normal speed ( -70% ). I had to change movement speeds to 6 to compensate, and terrain animations aren't as slowed as on the dos XCOM, but it is a big improvement so far.

 

It might work for hyper geoscape speed too. I plan to try that also.

Works well on Cyberstorm 2.

Edited August 7, 2009 by localhosed

[Soyoki]

Has anyone tried this?

 

When I use the app, it works great to slow the game down, but garbles the Sound.

[oldfan]

Too fast of a clock on geoscape used to be a problem for me to. I don't know what I did at the time after downloading a bunch of stuff to make Seb76 UFO extender work, but all of a sudden the game speed was reasonable. I recently had to reformat my hard drive and I did backup the Xcom directory, only to erase it later by mistake. I am now unable to make game speed normal again.

:-(

 

Did anybody had such an experience by any chance?

[oldfan]

Too fast of a clock on geoscape used to be a problem for me to. I don't know what I did at the time after downloading a bunch of stuff to make Seb76 UFO extender work, but all of a sudden the game speed was reasonable. I recently had to reformat my hard drive and I did backup the Xcom directory, only to erase it later by mistake. I am now unable to make game speed normal again.

:-(

 

Did anybody had such an experience by any chance?

Managed to figure out what I did a few months ago. I downloaded Mok's patch:

http://www.xcomhaven.com/ufo/mok.php

And instructed to have it load via the .ini file (or renaming the file to UFO Defense.exe).

[Caboose]

@oldfan

 

Can you specify what you did to make that work? Does it still work? (For slowing the time down.)

[oldfan]

@oldfan

 

Can you specify what you did to make that work? Does it still work? (For slowing the time down.)

Yes, it still works. I believe it is Mok's .exe file. However, I believe it grinds the CPU - the bottom of my laptop is always ultra hot when playing XCOM. I tried more than a few other tricks but all have failed.