Best way to play Terror From The Deep?

[Heresiarch]

For now, XCOM1 with XCOM Extender works perfect for me. Normal game speed (scrolling speed, weapon fire speed, animation speed etc), perfectly scaled resolution, great MP3 music and all.

But with TFTD, I just can't find a good way to play it half decently on my PC. The TFTD CE with the fixed exe used to work fine for me years ago, but apparently dual core CPU can't handle it well today, everything runs just too damn fast. I've downloaded the DOS version and it works even worse. It seems there's no XCOM Extender for TFTD, and Xcomutil doesn't seem to fix the speed problem either.

Anyone can give a guide to run the game as good as EU with Extender? Especially to those guys ran/running the LP of TFTD, what kind of environment are you using to play the game?

 

[TheWesDude]

you can use either dosbox or there was a utility a while ago called like "slowcpu" that went something like

slowcpu xxxx yyyyyyy


xxxx = cpu speed
yyyy= path to program

it was on the ultima collection cds

 

[korenzel]

I used DosBox 0.74 for the LP, with fixed CPU cycles set to 40000.
Scrolling Speed is at 2, Fire Speed at 1, Soldier Speed at 5 and Alien Speed at 2, it worked well enough.

Note that you will get performance issues with multi level maps, especially those with 4 different levels, most notably the game will be very slow on the upper levels.

 

[kyrub]

I thought he meant too quick Geoscape. But it's not exactly clear from the opening post.

Xusilak started to work on reproducing Extender for TFTD. He said he was partially succesful. You may try the patcher from this page.