Crazy Taco

I have now tried both, and really all that happens is that the music starts stuttering and skipping sometimes. The speed of the geoscape is relatively unchanged and still much faster than it should be (the 5sec speed is about equal to the supposed 1min setting, so a minute in-game per second in real time) and even with scroll speed at a minimum it's nigh impossible to see what's going on without constantly centering on things. I'm thinking that, unless there's a program out there that allows you to set at what exact speed you want the game to run (like setting the cycles in DOSBox), it will always be this fast... Hey, try what I did above, where you set the affinity of Turbo to one CPU as well. That fixed it for me. Sorry I didn't get this posted faster... I think you beat me by less than an hour. Would have been great if you could have tried it right away to test if it works on multiple machines and not just mine.

This was a good suggestion. I'm running Windows Vista 64-bit (maybe the thread title should be changed from Vista 32 bit to just Vista) on a dual core Athlon 64 X2 3600+, and I was having the same problems he was. I did what you said and set the affinity of the game to CPU0 (using the manual method above rather than the util). That alone actually didn't fix it, but I then decided to take it one step further and try setting the affinity of turbo to CPU0 as well. Up to this point, turbo hadn't apparently been slowing anything down, and even at 1% I could see no discernable difference, but once I gave it a CPU affinity so that it was only running on one CPU, it started working (for that CPU only). I found that at about 20%, with scroll speed set on 1, my game became reasonably playable, though I may have to take it down to 15%. Note: There's no way the music will work, at least for me... it seems to not depend on clock cycles, unlike the actual scrolling, because it is very slow and choppy with turbo on. It looks like we are going to have to find another program to replace turbo soon though... my CPU is several years old, and I wonder if even 1% on turbo would make this game playable on the latest CPUs. You'd probably need it restricted to oen core at .0001% or something .