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Posted June 25, 2011
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Leroux: Above Dominic998 linked to one of your posts in another thread, so I already tried your settings. Didn't work for me but thanks all the same, it was worth a try! :)
Could it be that your computer simply isn't powerful enough to emulate these games smoothly? I had all sorts of problems with demanding DOSBox games on my old system.
Posted June 25, 2011
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GameRager: Increase cycles a bit more, and see where the good sound/good speed sweet spot is.
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Leroux: I tried 8000 and 10.000, to no visible avail. The game still doesn't run as smooth as it used to when cycles were set to auto. How high can you go with the cycles?
set it to the word MAX.....this will cycle between the max cycle your CPU can optimally put out without lag and auto.
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Leroux: Above Dominic998 linked to one of your posts in another thread, so I already tried your settings. Didn't work for me but thanks all the same, it was worth a try! :)
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Arkose: Could it be that your computer simply isn't powerful enough to emulate these games smoothly? I had all sorts of problems with demanding DOSBox games on my old system.
This could also be it. Some newer dosbox titles need alot of cycles to run smoothly, and there are a few titles Dosbox isn't fully optimized for yet.
Post edited June 25, 2011 by GameRager
Posted June 25, 2011
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Leroux: Above Dominic998 linked to one of your posts in another thread, so I already tried your settings. Didn't work for me but thanks all the same, it was worth a try! :)
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Arkose: Could it be that your computer simply isn't powerful enough to emulate these games smoothly? I had all sorts of problems with demanding DOSBox games on my old system.
I have no idea. My computer is about 4 years old, double core 2.1 GHz, 2GB RAM (or was it even 4?). If that's not enough to run these DOSBox games smoothly, then I guess I have to live with it. Still, I think it's kinda sad when you consider that a twelve year old Win98 computer could run them without problems. And games like King's Quest VI run fine if you use ScummVM instead of DOSBox (well, apart from the occasional game-breaking error messages, that is :P ).
Post edited June 25, 2011 by Leroux
Posted June 25, 2011
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Arkose: Could it be that your computer simply isn't powerful enough to emulate these games smoothly? I had all sorts of problems with demanding DOSBox games on my old system.
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Leroux: I have no idea. My computer is about 4 years old, double core 2.1 GHz, 2GB RAM (or was it even 4?). If that's not enough to run these DOSBox games smoothly, then I guess I have to live with it. Still, I think it's kinda sad when you consider that a twelve year old Win98 computer could run them without problems. And games like King's Quest VI run fine if you use ScummVM instead of DOSBox (well, apart from the occasional game-breaking error messages, that is :P ).
Thing is the dosbox has to emulate the full dos environment, and this takes more power sadly than running the original programs in true dos would.
Posted June 25, 2011
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Leroux: I have no idea. My computer is about 4 years old, double core 2.1 GHz, 2GB RAM (or was it even 4?). If that's not enough to run these DOSBox games smoothly, then I guess I have to live with it. Still, I think it's kinda sad when you consider that a twelve year old Win98 computer could run them without problems. And games like King's Quest VI run fine if you use ScummVM instead of DOSBox (well, apart from the occasional game-breaking error messages, that is :P ).
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GameRager: Thing is the dosbox has to emulate the full dos environment, and this takes more power sadly than running the original programs in true dos would.
Even so, his rigs better than mine (P4 2.8ghz, 512 ram), and I don't have any problems running games on dosbox.
Posted June 25, 2011
Yep, I'm running on a netbook and have very few speed issues - it's only demanding 3D games like Screamer that cause any problems, and I can get that to a playable standard.

Speed-wise, roughly speaking in DOSBox a standard netbook would be equivalent to a low-end Pentium 1, a bog standard desktop to a higher end P1, a decent spec desktop to a top end P2. More than enough for the vast majority of DOS games.

Obviously that's a broad statement, some games may just run slow because something in DOSBox isn't fully emulated properly, or other similar issues.
Posted June 25, 2011
DOSBox really dislikes other programs running at the same time.

Especially torrent programs, but it can be anything that runs in the background.
Posted June 25, 2011
Very often, I can resolve my sound problems (DOSBox, Wine or other apps) by deactivating pulseaudio. So I wrote custom start scripts with:

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#!/bin/sh

# Deactivate PulseAudio if audio problems occur:
pulseaudio -k

dosbox -conf dosboxTimeshock.conf -noconsole -c "exit"

# Reactivate PulseAudio:
pulseaudio -D
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Try it!
Posted June 25, 2011
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outcast1: Very often, I can resolve my sound problems (DOSBox, Wine or other apps) by deactivating pulseaudio. So I wrote custom start scripts with:
That's fine for Linux/Unix. Many here run Windows though :-)
Post edited June 25, 2011 by Miaghstir
Posted June 25, 2011
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Dominic998: Even so, his rigs better than mine (P4 2.8ghz, 512 ram), and I don't have any problems running games on dosbox.
Could the double core be the problem? But then again, I have the same issues on my netbook. Or maybe it's Vista and 7? Are you running it on XP or another system?

Btw, I don't have any issues with game speed in DOSBox, just with the sound, but that seems somehow connected with the cycles and if I change them manually I get better sound coherence but weaker performance in terms of loading speed.
Posted June 26, 2011
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Dominic998: Even so, his rigs better than mine (P4 2.8ghz, 512 ram), and I don't have any problems running games on dosbox.
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Leroux: Could the double core be the problem? But then again, I have the same issues on my netbook. Or maybe it's Vista and 7? Are you running it on XP or another system?

Btw, I don't have any issues with game speed in DOSBox, just with the sound, but that seems somehow connected with the cycles and if I change them manually I get better sound coherence but weaker performance in terms of loading speed.
I run Linux. I couldn't really comment about double core.
Posted June 26, 2011
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Dominic998: I run Linux. I couldn't really comment about double core.
I'm not surprised then that you don't have any issues, Vista sucks for sound and music anyway. ;)
Posted June 28, 2011
This might sound naive but do you think that changing the OS could help me with the sound issues in DOSBox? Assuming I boot e.g. Ubuntu or something like that from a CD or DVD when I want to play DOSBox games, since DOSBox seems to work on Linux systems, too?

It just occurred to me that Vista *might* be part of the problem and that maybe when I bypass loading Windows, I won't have that much stuff running in the background either? But I'm far from bein tech-savvy and have never used Linux before, so please cut me some slack if this sounds like an idiotic idea. ;)
Post edited June 28, 2011 by Leroux
Posted June 28, 2011
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Leroux: This might sound naive but do you think that changing the OS could help me with the sound issues in DOSBox? Assuming I boot e.g. Ubuntu or something like that from a CD or DVD when I want to play DOSBox games, since DOSBox seems to work on Linux systems, too?

It just occurred to me that Vista *might* be part of the problem and that maybe when I bypass loading Windows, I won't have that much stuff running in the background either? But I'm far from bein tech-savvy and have never used Linux before, so please cut me some slack if this sounds like an idiotic idea. ;)
The irony is that, in general, Linux isn't that great for audio either :P.

But it is worth a shot. Even if you have never used Linux before a distro like Ubuntu is very easy (e.g. you should be able to install dosbox directly from the software/package manager, and you should be able install your GOG games using wine 'out-of-the-box').
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