P4 and Core 2 in DOSBox
Posted on 2013-04-25, 17:02
I normally set DOSBox to run at 8000 CPU cycles. The other day, I was running it on a 2.4GHz P4 and was kind of surprised to see CPU usage in the 4-72% range. On my 1.83GHz C2D laptop (same game at 8000 cycles), CPU usage was only 0-8%. I know there's a big difference in IPC between Netburst and …