Hello - I just wanted to ask real quick about what might be happening.

Symptoms:
While (from a fresh vanilla start) the Guide/or Narrator's sound is normal, and I may interact successfully for example with the light switch/radio, my Avatar's limbs move in slow-motion. As does ANY interaction with a book. I had (before I lost my saves) a couple of volumes on the hotbar in slots F11, adn F12. The large blue book w/ the ahnk on it, for example, would open fine only afterward it'd fail to respond to click to turn pages and all at once it would close very, very, v e r y slowly.
Entirely unble to get to where you'd save and/or quit the game so I have to use Task Manager just to get out. Oh and character only slid across the floor. What the heck, man?! lol

I've monkeyed around wtih the config utiities a bit, but put everything back to it's default ultimately.

Initually the Big D3d logo showed, then it stopped doing that. Intro film played alright - a bit stretched for my taste.

The slow-mo thing is wack. I've Never, ever seen this before. Bumm'en heavy bro...

Can anyone help me understand what to do? What is happening plz?

best regards and
God bless
thanks

I don't have a direct answer for you, but perhaps you might find one in the following older thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/ultima_series/ultima_ix_animations_running_in_slowmotion

Or, if not, in the following thread on another forum:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=31384

I hope that you manage to find a solution!

Thank you so very much, Thaumaturge, for wanting to help. Something like this especially, I would always use the off-line installer (it's so small), only I'm not to sure what to expect when I go to run the Extended Setup application. Secondly it seems that running, or trying to run, in compability mode with Win98/Me, only I don't know how choose Win98... + ServicePak2 at the same time as suggested.

Finally - what's not being said. What changed? Who did what that fouled this up, because personlly I don't make a whole lot of changes system wide, as I expect that doing something like that might aid 1 application that I'm enjoying, but cause imbalance with several others. Something changed. =/

I DiD! And it was largely due to your contribution here. Thank you so much.

Perhaps this is no place for thank you notes, but I'd listed these questions at the bottom of my 'thank you' thread out there - and decided that I'd return to this thread and pitch them at you. Small stuff:

"..1. using my native res 1920x1080 the journal is to Big. Everyting, and I mean everything is spectaular accept the book is so big that I can't drag anything to the slots or click the navigation ribbon at the top of the journal, as it's cut off. Is there a way to adjust this while keeping native?
2. Sound *effects are dropped out (which is no big deal, I just noticed it) Music/voice are fine.
3. Lastly how do I know I'm chosing the right a, b, c, or d 1920x1080 setting (for example) with respect to the appropriate refresh--rate, because it doesn't show? Does it even matter.

It's a Great day to be backward compatable..."

Thaumaturge, I realize that a lot of being able to help in these situations has to do with having experienced something personally, before hand. That's all I can hope for, and I appreciate your time (certainly anyone's time) on this man, thanks.

Greetings again!

I did see your questions in the other thread, if I recall correctly--but I'm afraid that I simply don't have answers for you.

Have you tried searching the forum? Perhaps someone else has had similar issues in the past.