Hard to tell what to do with such a large amount of information.

DOSBox questions should be asked in the DOSBox forum.

The configuration used by the iD games in Steam isn't very good. It's supposed to be tuned for that game alone but it really needs better tweaking. You're better off copying the datafiles off the Steam install and running the game with a separate DOSBox install. (It's what I did with my Commander Keen games!)

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Batracio, like I said, I'm new to DOSBox, so I don't have a lot of information because I don't know a lot about the program. Certainly no need to be rude about it.

However, I do have DOSBox on a separate install, but that one doesn't have any sound either. And now that I check the program, I scarcely remember how I even got it running, what with such natural terms to the average joe like "mounting" and "key mapping" and "Usage Mount C: Override Mapping"...do I even have the version needed for emulation? My version is DOSBox-0.72. I remember a few months ago toying with the program and finally getting it to run one of the games.

I have to apologize for being such an idiot, but really, a program that expects people without coding backgrounds who just want to try out a game to actually know how to, say, alter programming cycles, is actually faintly irking.

Really quite sorry.

UPDATE: Never mind, I just got it to work. Sorry for the inconvenience.

You've built up a programming boogie man that doesn't exist. Knowing CPU and MHz are all the background involved for understanding cycles. Valve's Counter Strike and Day of Defeat have a more cryptic interface and esoteric options.