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First post, by synarque

Posted on 2007-03-13, 03:16

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Hello everyone !

I seem to be the only one suffering from this problem ...
Machine :
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo 2*1.7GHz
Geforce Go 7600 (can't remember it's ram, 256 or 512 I guess)
2 Go ram
120 Go HDD
Using both DosBox 0.65 and 0.70

The problem I have is that when I am using fullscreen with Dosbox (either of the two version I mentionned), the keyboard gets all sluggish. I tried various settings possible, (with or without my usb keyboard, with minimum process environment, with dosbox.conf settings changed). Nothing seems to be efficient. Perhaps it is a common problem ? Though I really did not see any post about it.

And while I am at it, do anyone has solved Genewars problem with DosBox (I mean the horrendous land drawing, due to VESA) ?

And also, I seem not to be able to configure 0.70's windowed resolution, and as I cannot play fullscreen, I'm forced to use default 800*600 and it's really tiny !

I hope someone can help !
Thank you very much !

Reply 1 of 10, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2007-03-13, 12:14

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> And while I am at it, do anyone has solved Genewars problem with DosBox (I mean the horrendous land drawing, due to VESA) ?

You have to delete some file (recently there was another thread).

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 10, by Dominus

Posted on 2007-03-13, 13:34

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keyboard sluggyness: try to reduce the cycles Dosbox uses. When on default setting "cycles=max" it may happen (I think it did happen to me a couple of times) that keyboard input slows down. To reduce cycles press "Ctrl+F11" and see if that helps

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Reply 3 of 10, by synarque

Posted on 2007-03-14, 03:44

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No it still does not change anything, no matter what the cycle number is. Besides, my keyboard input is fine if I'm in windowed version, so I believe it may not be a matter of processor but rather a problem with the video part of DosBox !

Reply 4 of 10, by Qbix

Posted on 2007-03-14, 07:13

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or a problem with your video card/driver

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Reply 5 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2007-03-14, 10:17

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No this is definitely no driver problem (we should have removed those
randomized heuristics in the keyboard controls).

Reply 6 of 10, by avatar_58

Posted on 2007-03-14, 13:13

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When I have keyboard problems I set dosbox to "normal" priority rather than the default "high". Thats for lagged input though, but it's worth a shot.

Reply 7 of 10, by synarque

Posted on 2007-03-16, 11:23

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Gave your method a shot, but still, it did not do the trick !
It's too bad because there are a lot of really fun games that uses keyboard only, and playing it on windowed mode is really not so fun !

eg bioforge who's laggy enough not to slow it down anymore !
And what a pain in the a.. not to be able to play the original Doom or Wolf3D fullscreen !

Reply 8 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2007-03-16, 11:30

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And what a pain in the a..

So did you UPDATE THE GRAPHICS DRIVERS YET???

Reply 9 of 10, by synarque

Posted on 2007-03-18, 14:34

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Problem solved and excuse lme it had nothing to do with DosBox. I just bought Command and Conquer The last decade and I noticed that the keyboard was also sluggy in those games. So I did update my drivers, for nothing, this did not change anything. And then I thought a little more deeply and remembered that quake4's opengl did crash at launch because of some soft that was installed with my window's version : topDesk and UberIcon 😒

Killed the two processes forever, and the problems are gone ...

Sorry guys ---- Do never use those two dumb softs ... 😅

Reply 10 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2007-03-18, 15:23

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Hm odd that it can have such an effect, thanks for reporting back!

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