Red Faction: Exploding Submarine?

[Paul Moloney]

I'm playing that old shooter Red Faction, and having a strange problem
which seems to be due to playing on a modern PC. At one point in the
game you reach a submarine, which you lower into the water via a
button press. However, doing this leads to the submarine _exploding_
when it touches the water. Searching for help led to one lead,
suggesting it happens when you run on a fast PC. (Mine's a 2600+,
hardly blindingly fast, but still.) Would appreciate if anyone knows a
workaround...

P.

[FoolsGold]

Post by Paul Moloney
I'm playing that old shooter Red Faction, and having a strange problem
which seems to be due to playing on a modern PC. At one point in the
game you reach a submarine, which you lower into the water via a
button press. However, doing this leads to the submarine _exploding_
when it touches the water. Searching for help led to one lead,
suggesting it happens when you run on a fast PC. (Mine's a 2600+,
hardly blindingly fast, but still.) Would appreciate if anyone knows a
workaround...
P.

http://speeddemosarchive.com/RedFaction.html

- Red Faction has some funky issues with faster machines. For instance,
if I played the game normally, the submarine after the geothermal plant
would always explode if I tried to drop it into the water. Also, any
first contact with water literally made me stop moving until I had sunk
down enough into the water. Luckily, the sub stopped exploding once I
started recording with Fraps.

Run FRAPS, get past whatever you need to get past, and once things are
safe, you can disable it and continue as normal.

[Paul Moloney]

Post by FoolsGold
Run FRAPS, get past whatever you need to get past, and once things are
safe, you can disable it and continue as normal.

Cheers, worked for me.

Actually, using FRAPS to record video really bring my system to its knees;
even in a game were I'm getting 3 figures frames-per-second, try to record
even the lowest quality video, and it's back to single digits.

[Xocyll]

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Post by Paul Moloney
I'm playing that old shooter Red Faction, and having a strange problem
which seems to be due to playing on a modern PC. At one point in the
game you reach a submarine, which you lower into the water via a
button press. However, doing this leads to the submarine _exploding_
when it touches the water. Searching for help led to one lead,
suggesting it happens when you run on a fast PC. (Mine's a 2600+,
hardly blindingly fast, but still.) Would appreciate if anyone knows a
workaround...

You might try snagging a no-cd patch from gamecopyworld.
Or patching, if there's a patch - don't recall.
I played this a couple months back (on a 3200+) without any problems.

You could make it to the underwater base without the sub I think - be
difficult but possible.

Xocyll

[Ham Pastrami]

Post by Paul Moloney
I'm playing that old shooter Red Faction, and having a strange problem
which seems to be due to playing on a modern PC. At one point in the
game you reach a submarine, which you lower into the water via a
button press. However, doing this leads to the submarine _exploding_
when it touches the water. Searching for help led to one lead,
suggesting it happens when you run on a fast PC. (Mine's a 2600+,
hardly blindingly fast, but still.) Would appreciate if anyone knows a
workaround...
P.

You can use a CPU slower like Mo'Slo.
http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/basic.asp

Alternatively, launch any resource-hogging program you have (maybe an
antivirus scan, or tell your zip program to test-compress your entire hard
drive) and use the Task Manager to give it High/Realtime thread priority if
necessary. This will hopefully be enough to kill your framerate and prevent
bugs like this.