Old games, too much power!

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Ok, Fallout 1 and 2 never gave too much trouble while playing them but when I try to play System Shock 2 or Tropico, they make my pc sound like an airplane, System Shock 2 even made my computer go beebing, a feat that only Wii and some GameCube games were able to do. Is there a way to solve this situation? I would like to Play SS2 or Tropico, they look interesting but I don't want to risks my computer for them.

If it helps, here my build:

Intel Core i7 2600
ATI Radeon HD 5450
I have 8G of RAM and the rest is generic ( sucks to be a pc gamer in my country)
 
Try turning the V-Sync on; either through the in-game graphics menu, or through the graphics driver in your OS in case the game doesn't support it directly. Those old games are generating tremendous amount of frames per second otherwise.
 
Both games doesn't have the option in their respective menus, so I had to thinker with my GPU control center to enable it. Now, they still make my computer go a bit lousy but not like before. I wonder why such old games can make an i7 go crazy?
 
the reason is because the speed of the games were tied to your cpu cycles rather than the system clock.

faster the cpu, the faster the internal clock of the games run. try booting up something like ultima 3 to really see what im talking about. without something like dos box to slow it down, you die in under a second from running out of food.
 
In some games it's because there's nothing limiting the framerate. The game will just order the CPU to run at absolute maximum power to render ludicrous amounts of frames (that all go to waste because the screen can't show them) and cause it to go bonkers.
There are tools to control the speed of the CPU, it's especially necessary for games that, like TheWesDude mentioned, have their internal calculations tied to the CPU clock.
 
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