Reducing Processor Performance...

[Radgam]

Weird that i should be asking this but is there a way, without under-clocking my processor, to temporarily slow it down to around 1/2 the speed? The reason i ask is that some of my old programs/games just run too fast at 1.8 GHz, as they were probably designed for around the 500 MHz mark!

Thanks :)

[Force Flow]

What are your specs?

I'm thinking about AMD CPU's when I say this, but what you may be able to do is either decrease the FSB or change the processor's type. Say you have an Athlon XP 2100+, change it in the BIOS so that the machine thinks its a 1500+, for example.

[Radgam]

Thanks for the info :) My processor is an AthlonXP 2200 so that's around 1300mhz more than i really need ;)

[Spyda]

i dont really think slowing your procesor down has the effect of slowing games down that much, they are running at maximum potential , im pretty sure they cant just go faster and faster cos its a faster processor

[wschino]

I've heard that some older programs won't run right at high speeds......is this true?

[Radgam]

Well, i find most of my old programs work fine except that they work too fast/effeciently as they were designed to just scrape by with the computer resources available at the time.

[glc]

I've seen programs that have problems like this with fast processors.

This utility works - I've used it.

http://www.cpukiller.com/

[proxy]

i knwo with athlon XP CPUs you can downclock them, i dropped my 1.53 ghz to 1.14