It does yes. I might get a laptop cooler board thing, that little cpu/clock gizmo desktop gadget widget thing that comes with vista sometimes says 100% cpu usage when Dosbox is closing. I tried to increase the virtual paging file for windows itself rather than having it system managed but how high …

no, I didn't consider that, It is a brand new laptop, it has operational vista, and It runs lots of things, just not very well when it comes to dosbox, If anyone can suggest any drivers, sites to get them from forums etc.....

Thanks for offering some advice, I didn't copy what you said verbatim, I'm not even at my computer, I'm saying that IS where I started tweaking a couple of days ago, the only joy was adding the scaler=ddraw but it kept crashing even though it sped things up. I have had a quick look at what ripa is …

fullscreen=true fulldouble=false fullresolution=original windowresolution=original output=surface that is the default setting that it installs for itself when you install the 0.72 program and it doesn't work in fullscreen for me, except I use fullscreen=false in case a game file is corrupt and I …

Still having large issues with speed and jerkiness running dosbox 0.72 on windows Vista, and that is what this thread is supposedly about, are there any experts who can HELP me? I have freshly installed, I have tried Dynamic and cycles MAX, I have tried lots of things, I cannot get it to work like …

Mine in basic, is 2.0ghz dual core 2 processor 512 to 1 gb ram including virtual ram ati radeon or invidia and 3gb system ram screen resolution is 1280 x 800 I know that is not top end but it's fairly high and can run any game on the market now except i am told that new one crysis which would still …

I wasn't speaking literally, what I meant was that I have been running version 0.72 since it was released and I regularly check for new versions of it because like the creators of it, I am eagerly awaiting the version that will be able to run every video game ever made with relative ease. I have not …

Thank you for your swift reply. I have been running version 0.72 for a couple of years, there is no version I know more advanced or compatible than the one I am running now.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: please help, forums are endless, threads, topics, i have read dosbox documentation, copied some of your responses, kicked, screamed and cried etc.... I taught myself to use dosbox a couple of years ago to a certain level of …