SW Rogue Squadron too FAST!!!

[koonthul]

Well, happened to be cruising the after X-mas sales and found a copy of Rogue Squadron 3D for PC for only 10 bucks at Best Buy! Happily I picked up a copy of it along with a 10 dollar Gamers Factory USB game pad (looks like a PS2 controller exactly!). I highly recommend this gamepad to any PC user as it comes in handy, works well and is dirt cheap.

Came home and installed RS on my sisters laptop. She has a Dell Inspiron 2600 with a 1 Ghz processor and 256 meg RAM. The install and update patch went flawless, as did the setup of the game. When I tried to run the game however, things went SUPER fast! All the cutscenes flew by at about Mach 6 and gameplay was way to fast as well. Controls were way too fast and responsive so I crashed just about every time. Anyone got any idea as to how to slow it down? Lucas Arts tech support is no help, I looked. Running WinXP Home and the laptop has an integrated graphics card. Could this be the problem?

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[bob05]

Your complaining about it going too fast? :eek:

lol, I guess the most you could do is turn details to the MAXIMUM and see if you can enable anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. If you can, turn those to the max as well. Other than that, open a few other apps and games (or run a full antivirus systme check) then open Rouge Squadron. That will slow it down enough.:t

[koonthul]

That is so weird, but it worked! I am running an Anti-Virus scan with AVG while I play the game it slowed it down to it's normal pace. Problem is now, I get some herky-jerkyness here and there while the files are being scanned. There has to be an option within windows or somthing where i can turn off some extra features of the processor. It's a celery. Any more ideas? I am going to the dell forums to check a few things out.

[Logan2002]

i had a similar problem with a lucas game.
It was older forget the name. But on the desktop at the time
it worked fine and dandy, but when i put it on my notebook
it was total ****!

[Cyan]

You can get a progam that'll slow the computer down for you a bit. (I'll let someone else tell you what it is *ahem*)

and turn on V-Sync, just in case :t

[koonthul]

Messed with V-Sync, didn't help. Going to try and slide the hardware acceleration slider down a bit, just to see what happens. Also running the game in "Win 95 compatability mode" if that's worth anything. Probably not. Still no luck though.

[Rabbitrunner51]

Rogue Squadron is one of my most favorite flying RPG games and i should ask if you have DirectX installed and updated??

some things may have to do with the Video card setting and in the DX dialog box it has a test for 3D and other.

At ten bucks....it is worth he money you saved

i have had some issues also as it is a little quirky at times ,but just keep twiddling with it ,it should be OK.
it is of course a 98 system game so that says alot.

[koonthul]

I'll look around again at DirectX. I made sure to update it and made sure everything was certified. Right now it looks fine, no problems. Latest is 9.0b I believe. I'll check for the test. I know the game is useing Direct3D so that pinpoints what drivers it is using. I still think it has somthing to do with the integrated graphics card. It's a weird problem. Although, this will all vanish when I get back to my place probably and I put it on my good gaming machine. Hopefully I won't have this problem with a dedicated 3D card.