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The way that .01 (straight from the installer) runs, there's no interal speed meterage, it's based solely on max-CPU speed. That's a problem if your box has any horsepower at all.

Every DOS-game junkie in the world knows how to declock the CPU, but I know the end result that everyone's going for is an off-the-shelf, isn't-this-game-we-love-cool idiot friendly total conversion port of SC2.

The way it stands now, UM is inaccesible to anyone who's not a DOS nerd and has only a modern (ie Me/XP, lotsa RAM lotsa ghz CPU) computer. I had the same problem running SC2 on a 486/100 back in the day.

Has someone worked out the code for an interal clocking mechanism yet?

Can I have it/test it?

I have an Athlon T-bird (1.2 GHz) and uqm always ran at a sensible speed on it, both in 0.1 and from CVS. (and, I should add, it definitely did NOT use 100% of the available CPU time) I think you're seeing something specific to your system (maybe it's a Windows thing?)

The developers might have more information.

Daniel

Great. Yet another XP feature?

Alright, lemme see if I can do any memory allocation or compatibility tricks.

I know UM's got it's own mini OS. Is there a minimum amount of RAM it needs assigned? Can I deny it rescources to slow it down?

I may want to deny it any kind of virtual memory either, the way it leaks. Defrag is probably in order anyway.

Uh... what are you guys talking about ?

UQM runs fine on my machine.

I have an Athlon 2000+ and am using WindowsXP.

All due respect, guys, but the exception does not prove the rule here.

I'm happy for you, that you've got high speed boxes that don't have clocking issues. But I do, and come v1.0 there will be dozens or hundreds of newbie idiots with my same problem.

I know it's mentioned in the TODOs, I'm just wondering if anyone's TODOne it yet. And if so, can you do me up a patch?

Sorry to be a one trick pony here, but the fact that I can't really do anything in combat limits my ability to beta later parts of the game.

Well, i don't know the answer to your question, however, there is one way  to  find out:  get one of the recent snapshots that have been posted (striker's for instance).  And see if your problem goes away.

If not, we need to know more aboutyour hardware:  CPU, how much RAM, OS, Video Card, Sound Card.

Also, do you use any switches when running the game?

The game uses a pretty standard timer for contolling its play speed, so tracking down the problem involves knowing  something about what is special about your system.

AMD Athalon 1.4 Ghz
480 megs RAM
ProSavage S3
VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (I think, HP has really wacky sound and 3D cards [that are usually soldered onto the motherboard]).

So that's me. I've experimented with all of the switches, no clocking changes.

I've also been playing around with Stryke's latest, but there are issues to be resolved before I can get into the game.

I guess I'll have to let you know later. Thanks for taking an interest, PB.

Oh yes, almost forgot: I'm running XP Home.

Yay! The latest build Striker put up fixes my problem! Nevermind!

Now I can actually enter into combat.

Thanks to all who helped (PB particularly).