Tmansdc1 wrote:I'm building a new pc and the processor I have chosen to use is the Ryzen 5 3600x. Now I've heard that the first gen ryzen's were kind of slow with dosbox and that there were some problems with the VME and I wanted to know if that is still an issue? If it is I may just go for the i5 9600k or i7 9700k instead
DOSBox worked better on Intels. With Ryzen it's doubtful to be changed, but I have no concrete numbers. On previous Zen+ the performance was close to Intel 2xxx.
There are a very few DOS games where Ryzen CPU mb not enough for you. For those games mb better to use hardware virtualization alike Virtual PC (if it works with Ryzens) and on Intels also. The example of such games is Pyl.
Also higher performance mb useful if you want to run Win9x games in DOSBox. But it's exotic and there should be other good emulators.
If you have more money on Intel CPU, you'd better bought 8 core 3700X to have longer timelife for gaming. I doubt you'll play much in several resources-hard DOS games where appears a use to have modern Intel. But to play in future games - rather possibly.
problems with VME were reported as fixed
if you get problems with stuttering - try to reduce cycles or use fixed cycles up to 50000