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Perhaps I am about to ask for something impossible, but here goes.

I used to play the game Monaco Grand Prix 2 back in the day. For those who don't know it, it is a non-licensed F1 game depicting the 1997 F1 season and was made for Win95.
For years I had it running on Win98 and it was ace, for me still the best F1 game ever, also because it was so easy to edit cars and track appearance.

My old Win98 pc has long since gone to the pc Walhalla and I have been trying ever since to get MGP working on my old WinXP laptop, but so far without much success. The game works fine, but runs waaaaaay to fast. It is like Usain Bolt strapped to a Saturn V. I have been trying some tricks to slow my machine down, but my knowledge is insufficient to make any promising headway.
Now, a few weeks ago I fired up the old laptop again and found it had been in standbymode for a while. I installed MGP and it worked FINE. No glitches, no ultrafast movements, it was perfect. So the game and machine CAN work fine.
I shut down the laptop to try again the next day, but then found it was back to the old ultrafast movements.

I am not sure why it is so fast, but I think it may have something to do with processor speed. I tried disabling DirectX acceleration (which worked for Wing Commander IV), but that didn't solve the problem.
I tried running CPU Killer, but that just makes everything so juddery it is impossible to play the game.
So, to my question: Is there another way of slowing an old XP laptop down?

Use it on battery maybe? The only other solution is to run the game through a virtual machine like VirtualPC or VMware

ReneLotus wrote:Perhaps I am about to ask for something impossible, but here goes.

I used to play the game Monaco Grand Prix 2 back in the day. For those who don't know it, it is a non-licensed F1 game depicting the 1997 F1 season and was made for Win95.
For years I had it running on Win98 and it was ace, for me still the best F1 game ever, also because it was so easy to edit cars and track appearance.

My old Win98 pc has long since gone to the pc Walhalla and I have been trying ever since to get MGP working on my old WinXP laptop, but so far without much success. The game works fine, but runs waaaaaay to fast. It is like Usain Bolt strapped to a Saturn V. I have been trying some tricks to slow my machine down, but my knowledge is insufficient to make any promising headway.
Now, a few weeks ago I fired up the old laptop again and found it had been in standbymode for a while. I installed MGP and it worked FINE. No glitches, no ultrafast movements, it was perfect. So the game and machine CAN work fine.
I shut down the laptop to try again the next day, but then found it was back to the old ultrafast movements.

I am not sure why it is so fast, but I think it may have something to do with processor speed. I tried disabling DirectX acceleration (which worked for Wing Commander IV), but that didn't solve the problem.
I tried running CPU Killer, but that just makes everything so juddery it is impossible to play the game.
So, to my question: Is there another way of slowing an old XP laptop down?

Hi mate!

You can try using the DOS Box , I can play games like Need for Speed ​​I, Doom I and II , Quake , Hexen, Flight Simulator 95/98 ... all in Windows 7. I think you'll be able to play .

http://www.dosbox.com/

Good Luck!

Guys, is there a dongle type solution for creating a wifi zone from one's PC? Instead of a router.

Never tried it myself, but apparently any Wifi card/dongle will work as a hotspot. See the search below for how to.

https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... LF6o7tHv_s

Thanks mate. Seems like those things are for catching 3G/4G data the same way a phone does but for the PC. I'm just looking for some easy way (without a router) to create a little wifi zone around my PC using the PC's internet.

SB83 wrote: ↑6 years ago Thanks mate. Seems like those things are for catching 3G/4G data the same way a phone does but for the PC. I'm just looking for some easy way (without a router) to create a little wifi zone around my PC using the PC's internet.

http://www.mhotspot.com/

Mawerick wrote: ↑6 years ago

SB83 wrote: ↑6 years ago Thanks mate. Seems like those things are for catching 3G/4G data the same way a phone does but for the PC. I'm just looking for some easy way (without a router) to create a little wifi zone around my PC using the PC's internet.

http://www.mhotspot.com/

Wow, that works. Thanks mate.

How would I go about getting the audio from a youtube video?

The site I used to use appears to be full of virus looking shifty links..

I use the Youtube-dl program.

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

Thanks both.

Can anyone recommend any alternatives to VLC media player please? @SB83 recommended a program a few years ago which supports more media file types than VLC, but I can't find it anywhere on the forum and it's not on my current PC.

https://fossbytes.com/10-best-free-medi ... s-windows/

try it on this page.

kals wrote: ↑5 years ago Can anyone recommend any alternatives to VLC media player please? @SB83 recommended a program a few years ago which supports more media file types than VLC, but I can't find it anywhere on the forum and it's not on my current PC.

It's the second program on the link Erwin posted (Pot player) but I had stopped using it as latter versions of the program started installing all sorts of dangerous garbage without your permission.

SB83 wrote: ↑5 years ago

kals wrote: ↑5 years ago Can anyone recommend any alternatives to VLC media player please? @SB83 recommended a program a few years ago which supports more media file types than VLC, but I can't find it anywhere on the forum and it's not on my current PC.

It's the second program on the link Erwin posted (Pot player) but I had stopped using it as latter versions of the program started installing all sorts of dangerous garbage without your permission.

Ok thanks, good to know