Castle Wolfenstein goes nuts!

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 21:35

I downloaded the freeware castle wolfenstein, and I don't mean the 3D one by ID. I mean the prehistoric original, well, the DOS port, that is. When I start it, all the guys are zooming back and forth like hummingbirds. And when I press a button, I go careening into a wall at the speed of light and die in the blink of an eye.

I can't play this game at the speed it's moving. How do I slow it down?

memsys · Post by **memsys** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 22:25

use dosbox

Lava89 · Post by **Lava89** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:47

Defrag your computer, do a Norton Virus check and start up Windows Update...all at the same time.

q 90 · Post by **q 90** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:01

Dosbox will definitely do the trick. Slow down the CPU cycles in the config file.

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:56

Avoid Norton. Use AVG. However, I doubt Lava's suggestion will solve anything in this situation.

I'll second [edit: third] what Memsys says: Use DOSBox. If that doesn't help, get Mo'Slo and use that from within DOSBox on the game's exe. (i.e. moslo filename.exe)

Lava89 · Post by **Lava89** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:06

Commander Spleen wrote:However, I doubt Lava's suggestion will solve anything in this situation.

I was kidding....

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:09

Big night. Must've broken my irony scanner. I'll make a note to fix it.

Post by **KeenRush** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:03

ROFL. I thought it was a real suggestion.

Calvero · Post by **Calvero** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 13:22

Commander Spleen wrote:If that doesn't help, get Mo'Slo and use that from within DOSBox on the game's exe. (i.e. moslo filename.exe)

You're kidding too, right?

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 13:40

Like I said, big night. I forgot DOSBox has such features.

Ride the gravy train!

memsys · Post by **memsys** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 14:08

don't use norton of avg use avast
notron is just horible most viruses are made to go around norton
avg 8 is bad because it gives heaps of false positives

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 14:57

I shall heed your warning about AVG 8. I still use 7.5. I tried Avast several years ago on a quest for lightweight software, but it seemed uncomfortable to me. I'll give it another chance sometime.

Hmm. Four sentences starting with I.

Lava89 · Post by **Lava89** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 15:04

Commander Spleen wrote:
Hmm. Four sentences starting with I.

Haha, it sounds like some type of creed.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 16:41

Slow down CPU cycles in the config file? What r u guys aliens I cant figure out what that means. But I'll try taking a slight glance right aftr this post.

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out how to press Ctrl+F11 all by myself. What would I ever do without a community of geniuses like you to turn to

Now I just need to get used to all of wolfensteins weirdo controls

PS: How do you use the grenades?

q 90 · Post by **q 90** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 23:39

Sadly I don't know, since I've never played Wolfenstein before. I remember seeing it on a floppy disk in our stash of floppies back in the 90s, and I thought it was some horror game combining Werewolves and Frankenstein's monster so I was too afraid to play it. It was a bootleg copy, so apparently my dad did copy that floppy.