I think I found the real problem behind all this - I was using the wrong configuration file! Though DOSBox 0.74 uses %appdata% for configuration, when copying some old files over from another hard drive, I put some older DOSbox installation files into the newer DOSbox folder, causing it to use the …

Well yeah, I guess - but that was an older version. I've also changed specs since there, upgrading to a E8400 Core Duo and Windows 7. Changing the prebuffer to be larger did not help either. I'm not sure what to do.

I think I may have reported this years ago, but even after some DOSbox updates, it still seems to persist. I started to play Arena again and everything seems to be working fine, but every now and again (especially when interacting with NPCs and using maps or other menus) the sound will drop out for …

While playing games in DOSbox, I've noticed that, very randomly, the sound will play back at an extremely high pitch for about a split-second. It happens very quickly, but it's noticeable, especially when it happens several times in a couple of seconds. Sometimes it happens in clusters, sometimes it …

Old thread, yeah, but I realized something recently. I tried using Dynamic core with the games that suffer from slowdown, and it works great! The problem is, in the menus of these games, e.g. Blake Stone, Wolf3D, it has a tendency to freeze whenever I move the cursor at all. So I basically either …

Well, it doesn't have an external dos4gw.exe, and I'm having a hard time following the instructions givein on the DOSbox site somewhere, as it seems like my setup is so different.

There's one thing that confuses me about DOSbox, and that's its ability to play certain games much better than others. For example, Doom and its brethren (Heretic, etc.) and BUILD engine games run great, as does Quake. But it seems like much, much simpler games like Blake Stone seem to have trouble …