are more people having a fast panning speed when you move the arrow with the mouse?
even if all set to low?

sorry should have set it as question and formulated the subject a bit better.

I had the same problem. Not only that, the cursor pans before reaching the edge of the screen, so I can't access the item or spell banners.

Same problem here. Sometimes panning speed is correct when I have just started the game, but it gets immediately too fast if I go to the option screen and the back to the game again. I always have an invisible screen edge, too.

when i changed my inquis config file to this, the panning speed is normal, the only
drawback is when you switch back to your desktop the speed goes fast again.
i think that must be where the program zpeed kicks in.

atleast with zork nemesis you could just fiddle with the dosbox config file.
but this doesnt use dosbox.

have contacted gog, hope they can come up with a solution.

[ZorkGrandInquisitor]
KeyboardTurnSpeed=100
PanaRotateSpeed=0
QSoundEnabled=1
HighQuality=0
LineSkipVideo=1
CountryCode=0
Platform=0
InstallLevel=1
CPU=0
MovieCursor=0
VenusEnabled=0
NoAnimWhileTurning=0
Win958=0
ShowSubtitles=1
JapaneseFonts=0

[edit] well scratch that it overwrites itself every new startup. guess its waiting on a solution from gog...

I hope I'm understanding your problem correctly, but it seems you may need a CPU Killer. I haven't played the GOG version yet, but when I installed ZGI on my XP Box a while back, the panning speed was so quick it was unplayable. Downloaded this: http://www.cpukiller.com/ and it worked like a charm. Hope this helps.

already read on other forums that it wont work, but i have tried it but indeed it doesn't work.
also it would slow down the whole game, while only the screen moves too fast when you point the cursor left or right.
thanks anyway.
as zork nemesis has the same problem on even windows xp machines it must be very badly programmed . but also gog should have tested things a bit better..

Weird, I'll check it again on my XP box, but if my memory serves me correct, the game worked fine and the panning speed was great. Most 90's games will have this problem of running to fast, even on XP boxes, this is due to the increase in performance technology of processors. Believe it or not I still have a box with Win98 from that era, that I use specifically for old games :-)

its unavoidable to have a (virtual) machine to play some of the older games.
i have a vmware setting with 95,98 and later xp since most games didnt work on 95/98
either. i also have access to a xp pc from my dad which i could try it on.
have played zgi years ago and it worked fine and i think it was on windows xp.

and i understand totally that most 90's games would run too fast or not at all.
but if gog is trying to make money selling these games they should work regardless
or even include a cpukiller setup (if that would work) which i think zpeed is that
runs along with the game , but not properly working and since it's an exe file you cant
edit it.
even if you move using the keyboard supposedly it would create problems in a puzzle
later on.

Agreed, I think it should be fixed, if they are selling it, on the other hand it may have been something they couldn't get a workaround for. Let's hope support comes up with something as I may still want to purchase the DRM free version from GOG.

I find that if I just run zpeed instead of the gog shortcut the game runs perfectly. Otherwise, I get the super fast panning speed.

Damn.. I was really hoping GOG had solved this issue, as it has been bugging me for a long time (in fact, I was waiting for GOG's release to play the game even though I already own it).

There is a solution around (specifically engineered for Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor) which is rather hacky. Some folks at The Zork Library wrote a program called Pan Relief. You have to run it in the background while you play. It detects when the mouse passes the edge of the screen, and pulls it back in, preventing it from scrolling too fast.

This has some nasty side-effects: it means you need to push continuously to get it to scroll, and you can't move the mouse to the side of the screen in non-scrolling parts (such as the inventory screen). But it's better than nothing.

have you tried returning to your desktop and go back to the game with that?

No, I haven't, not since I started running zpeed.exe directly instead of using the shortcut.

Hi again, what do you mean by "it would slow down the whole game"? I played it today with CPUKILLER on a Pentium 4, XP Home Edition and it worked fine.