P2 deluxe edition
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Re: Speed problems
You would want to try the DOS version. But you may also run into some speed problems on todays P3 or P4 systems simply cause even the Win95 Delux edition may not handle the speed of the P3 or P4. Just a guess. Best thing to do is have a machine around like a P233 or lower to run those games. I have 2 machines for running the old games, and my Privateer 2 runs perfectly on the P233 machine, DOS mode. Got a P133 to run the other old original WC games from WC-1 thru 4 including Privateer and RF. You might try one of the slowdown utilities for the DOS mode. Moslo is an excellent utility, which you can link to from the files section on CIC. But to save you alot of headache and frustration, might hunt down a slower machine to run those games. Also, the Delux versions were meant to run on the 16/32 hybrid OS's, Win2000 and Win ME are true 32 bit OS's, not hybrids. That may be why youre having problems with the Delux. Again just a guess. Good luck!
RFBurns
You would want to try the DOS version. But you may also run into some speed problems on todays P3 or P4 systems simply cause even the Win95 Delux edition may not handle the speed of the P3 or P4. Just a guess. Best thing to do is have a machine around like a P233 or lower to run those games. I have 2 machines for running the old games, and my Privateer 2 runs perfectly on the P233 machine, DOS mode. Got a P133 to run the other old original WC games from WC-1 thru 4 including Privateer and RF. You might try one of the slowdown utilities for the DOS mode. Moslo is an excellent utility, which you can link to from the files section on CIC. But to save you alot of headache and frustration, might hunt down a slower machine to run those games. Also, the Delux versions were meant to run on the 16/32 hybrid OS's, Win2000 and Win ME are true 32 bit OS's, not hybrids. That may be why youre having problems with the Delux. Again just a guess. Good luck!
RFBurns
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
By 'ace-1', he means Deluxe -- long story. 
You can slow down your Priv2 with CPUKiller -- available in the CIC files section.
You can slow down your Priv2 with CPUKiller -- available in the CIC files section.
Too fast in some places, too jerky in others, guess I just need an old PC
Pedro
Admiral
Well I can't disable internal cache for Win me But I disabled external cache and that slowed it down considerably (and for some odd reason boosted the speed of my DVD playback). That wasn't enough to make it playable but tools such as Turbo work best when you aren't reducing the speed very significantly so when I put my speed down to 70% it was very playable
Thanks
But I disabled external cache and that slowed it down considerably (and for some odd reason boosted the speed of my DVD playback). That wasn't enough to make it playable but tools such as Turbo work best when you aren't reducing the speed very significantly so when I put my speed down to 70% it was very playable Thanks
What means "old joystick"?
Which joysticks are "old"/"new" for you, what features make the difference?
And since some of you won't read the entire thread, I want to remember you all again of the original reason why I started these thread:
I'm searching for someone who knows where germans can get "P2 deluxe edition for win9x" these days.
TC
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Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
P2DD was in stores (the WIn95 version, at leat) -- but it's not really around anymore (you can occasionally find it on discout racks). The Win95 native versions of WC games (KS, WCIVWin95 and P2DDeluxe) both seem to be pretty rare, because nobody bought them when they were available.