Thanks to Pete Dero - he gave me a link to a small cheat hack that sits outside the game and allows you to adjust the speed to your tastes, not quite super slooooooooooooooow bullet time but 0.02 speed instead of 1.00 - allowing you to play the game either at a constant reduced rate of say 50%/75% or to play the game on normal speed and then jam it down to bullet time when the action gets hot
The only reason i moved up from ALB to Red Dragon was because of the speed options, and im sure a lot of people either stopped playing or were scared off by the hectic pace of ALB - sweat no more, i can genuinely say, if i'm happy then you will be - im crap at been rushed, hatewd the speed of ALB and loved bullet time in Red Dragon
Its not a hack of the game, theres no coding, and adding exes to anything, its a 3rd part bit of software that works seperately to the game
anyway
heres the link - http://www.cheatengine.org/downloads.php
if you need any help just ask, and thanks again to Pete
Nice find! Thanks.
Not to sound like a total retard, but you can please post a quick "how to"? The tutorial is pretty annoying. I just want to use this for ALB. Thanks.
Download the Cheat engine (without automated installer and Open Candy recommendation during installation to avoid any malware).
Run Cheatengine.exe
Now run the game you want to play (Wargame games should run in windowed full screen as you need to be able to use Alt-Tab).
Alt tab back to cheatengine.
Select the game process in cheat engine by clicking on the computer icon (the icon will be blinking)
Check enable Speedhack (You can add ingame shortcuts in cheatengine through Edit-settings-shortcuts).
Alt Tab back to the game and play.
Short Youtube tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZ2okB8WNQ
Yeah, I scrapped the tutorial after 2 minutes - you don't need it at all
Start the cheat engine software - do nothing else
Start ALB, minimise it once the intro stuff is done
Go back to cheat engine panel and you'll see an icon flashing in the top left, click on it and it will open up a panel of running programmes - you will see the wargame 2 alb icon in there near the bottom, click on it and press open just under the panel
To the right of the box you'll see something like configure speed hack, tick that box, and underneath is a slider, defaulting to 1, slide it left to decrease the overall speed of the game, then click apply
Go back to ALB and start your skirmish or whatever, you will see the game running at the speed you chose, the game will run its length in that speed
However if you want to change the speed up and down in game go to the edit option in the cheat engine panel, then settings, then hot keys - you will now see a list of options to assign keys to, the ones you need are either plus or minus or allocate a speed to each of the 5 speed buttons you see, I have mapped a speed of .02 to keypad 1, 0.50 to keypad 2, and 1.0 to keypad 3, click ok and bring up alb again - no need to restart
Now play away, hit keypad 1 when it gets crazy and keypad 3 when you're good to go again
Hope this helps, ask if not
Ninja'd by Pete
Fwiw I can play full screen don't need windowed
Thanks guys. Got it.
This is awesome -- thanks UCG. ALB was way too fast for me before -- had to stick to Red Dragon.
Works great with European Escalation too. Many thanks!
I wonder how ya'll are going to handle the remastered Homeworlds speed. though IIRC you can pause in solo play to issue orders.
i suspect this will work with that too - for all us turtlers and unhurried folks O0
Thank you so much for posting this up UCG! The speed thing was all that has been keeping me from enjoying EE and ALB. Gonna download and install now! :smitten:
I wonder....is there any reason to play EE over ALB? Are the maps different? OOBs? I'm pretty sure the OOB in ALB is more expansive, if anything...
each of the 3 have a different flavor.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 16, 2015, 10:02:18 PM
each of the 3 have a different flavor.
Which means what, exactly? EE feels very similar to ALB, to me.
the play is similar but the terrain is different. EE is more fields and tree stands where ALB is more mountain and water.
Geographically, do you know if the locations are different? Ie. NGP as opposed to Fulda?
the North German Plain was far more built up into our current concept of suburbia the the Fulda region was/is. this was somewhat reflected in EE but not to the extent that it could have been. I spent far more time with ALB because of the expanded OOB though. from what I played of EE the urban bits werent as prevalent as they seem to be in ALB.
is there a hack to unlock all the units from the start yet?
Quote from: WallysWorld on February 16, 2015, 06:38:08 PM
Works great with European Escalation too. Many thanks!
It also works with Company of Heroes, World in Conflict, Men Of war, Theatre of War, Sins of a solar Empire, ...
Remember : single player only.
Quote from: Toonces on February 16, 2015, 09:50:48 PM
Thank you so much for posting this up UCG! The speed thing was all that has been keeping me from enjoying EE and ALB. Gonna download and install now! :smitten:
got to say it was Pete who let me know up in the screenshot thread - i just made it more public because i love you all
yup it's official... this thing is great. Game was too fast for me, not anymore. Thank you.
set my lowest speed to 10% so far ,might even go to 1%.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1144.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo484%2Fronnie8691%2F2015-02-20_00002_zpsepdqs2am.jpg&hash=b827d26ca42a296aa96310fd36c087e55f3471e0)
Lol, enjoy budd - I came across some old replays on my profile, I last played in 2013 - haven't played anything else since I came across this
Thanks for this tool. Much appreciated! O0
Just tried this tonight for a quick match and it works like a charm. This has truly saved ALB for me. :smitten:
Awesome piece of software. I never even tried ALB, for this very reason, but having this for whatever game I need really opens up my gaming horizon.
Slooooooow games . . . :smitten:
Hi Guys,
Thanks for this program, I have a brief question on this, I must run Steam and then start one of the wargames like Euro Escalation or the other dlc's and then go to alt/tab and the cheat engine program?
Nice job with this and I wish they made this part of the game.
Quote from: demjansk1942 on November 10, 2015, 09:44:35 AM
I must run Steam and then start one of the wargames like Euro Escalation or the other dlc's and then go to alt/tab and the cheat engine program?
Download the Cheat engine (without automated installer and Open Candy recommendation during installation to avoid any malware).
Run Cheatengine.exe
Now run the game you want to play (Wargame games should run in windowed full screen as you need to be able to use Alt-Tab).
Alt tab back to cheatengine.
Select the game process in cheat engine by clicking on the computer icon (the icon will be blinking)
Check enable Speedhack (You can add ingame shortcuts in cheatengine through Edit-settings-shortcuts).
Alt Tab back to the game and play.
I downloaded the program but my malware bytes identifies it as a virus. What should I do? It seems that some people claim it's a virus but others use it all the time. I just want to slow down but I can't figure out how to install without the automated installer?
any other speed hacks out there? It would be nice for the company to put a patch out for the games to slow them down.
Hi guys,
I have a spare key for Red Dragon: https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=ztGdSBXrA5AcGxV2
Hope someone will enjoy it :)
Thank you!
Anytime Trooper