Windows

Thief: The Dark Project

I've played it on notebook. Switched it to the background. Worked at something for some time. I am not sure how long it was. At least five minutes I'd say. I switched back. Whizzz. Game was 2 or 3, just guessing, times faster. I was baffled. It played SO GREAT. Swordfights were amazingly funny. Sneaking was more like being some overgrown face hugger. After some time (15 minutes or so) it returned back. Oh, how I saddened by playing this "snail game" ;)

It was probably because of adaptative cpu speed. Or lowered cpu speed. I am not sure. Maybe because of 2 threads which I've patched somewhere. I am sure it is replicable on other notebooks because some people get those incredible speeds too. Maybe on PC's too.

Have You experienced it? How it was like?

PS Tomb Raider did it too. But it wasn't of course (that) great ;).

That does sound pretty cool. It never happened for me, but it reminds me of something slightly similar:

I played MegaRace back in the mid-'90s, a racing game with pre-rendered tracks that spooled off the CD. When you installed the game, it would gauge the speed of your CD-ROM drive, and the game would then run at an appropriate speed. So I almost finished it on 'hard' mode, but got stuck and couldn't complete it. Then I upgraded from a double-speed, to a quad-speed CD-ROM drive. When I came back to the game, I was surprised to find it ran twice as fast! Somehow this also made it easier, and allowed me to finish it ;)

I read in one of our game mags about how much one of our sci-fi writers (Ondrej Neff if it tells something to You) "loved bullet-time". He played Prince of Persia (on MsDos) , and he played it on some old machine. He became master. All his friends were amazed at how good he was. After some time 486 came. His nephew, or someone, had it. And he wanted to show himself off. So he said "Do You have a Prince". "Yeah". "Wanna see something?". Well he realized his writers reflexed were trained to look at beautyful slideshow, choosing key, clicking and then thinking a while about something else, clicking the another key .... battles used to be turn based strategies . I don't know if he ever played it again ;).