Hello,

I've been playing the Mac version from GOG for a few days, and it was working fine until last night. I'm up to level 6 or 7, and suddenly the game is so slow that I can't play it any more. My staff walk around very very slowly - literally taking one step per second.

I'm playing on a MacBook that's about three years old. I thought maybe the Mac was just overheating, so I gave up and shut it down last night, but today it's no better. I've tried loading different saved games and restarting a completely new game, but I still have the same problem. Even with a completely empty hospital, if I hire one receptionist she starts walking around in the same slow, jerky way.

Any ideas for what I can try to fix this? I was having so much fun!

ETA: I also tried switching to lo-res graphics. Didn't help.

I'm an idiot - the game speed was set to slowest! I didn't change it deliberately, so I think my cat may have walked across the keyboard. Next!

=)

You (or your cat :P) have probably clicked on "1". That changes the speed to the slowest. "3" is normal. Handy if you see a rat ;)

I found out just by coincidence btw, so don't feel bad.

I'm a bit slow in replying :D, but here is where you can find the dosbox preferences.conf file.

RIght-click on the game app and select "Show package contents", then /Contents/Resources/Theme Hospital.boxer ("show package contents" again).

The file is called "DOSBox Preferences.conf", open it with a text editor (I use TextEdit). You'll probably want to make a copy before you make any changes so you can go back to it if anything breaks. This page here describes all the lines and what you can change: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf