Games too fast in Win2K

[Mr Furious 0]

How come all games (Half Life, Midtown Madness, Close Combat IV) run too fast under Windows 2000? I still get the same frame rate on time demos in Half-Life, but it's just too fast to play! I've only got a K6-III 450, Voodoo 3 3000 and 128MB, not some funky Athlon 1GHz-GeForce 2 combo!

[Toby 0]

Hi !

 

I had the same problem, Win2k has detected your CPU-speed to only half the real speed. (check in system information) The only way to fix this is to reinstall Win2k, and during setup (when you get the option F6 for SCSI bla bla..) press F5 and choose STANDARD PC.

 

I got this working with my Gigabyte GA-5AX Mainboard, AMD K6III~400..

 

Good luck !

 

// Toby

[euankirkhope 0]

Tell me how you did it!

 

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System Spec:

FIC VA-503+ 1.1b bios JE438

CPU Current Limiter Disabled

AMD K6-2 550 (300 when I talk to FIC tech support)

128Mb SSi PC100

STB Velocity 4400 16Mb PAL TV-Out

Hauppauge Wintv

Realtek 8029 LAN

Creative ES1371 (PCI64v)

56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem

Creative 48mx CDROM

Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24)

Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb

LS120

and com and lpt i/o conflict error during bios startup.

Hardware fault caused by win2k beta3 and dodgy bios, now irrepairable.

[Mr Furious 0]

Yes, I noticed the CPU thing. TestCPU (a little freeware program)also quotes my CPU speed as 225MHz. I'm going to try the reinstall now. Thanks for the advice!

[Mr Furious 0]

Yes! The reinstall works just fine. I now get 70FPS in Half-Life as opposed to 50 under Win98. Thanks Toby!