First post, by windi
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Hello
First I want to cheer for the latest release 0.70. I was able to get 80 000 cycles out of my main Athlon XP2400+ host, the dynamic core really has had some major improvements. It was enough to have enjoyable IPX multiplayer games in Doom and Heretic over the Internet finally. (yes, those games are nice in dosbox because the unix/win32 source ports of those games are always more or less screwed up when it comes to the game dynamics.)
However I have an odd problem on my Laptop. It's a Compaq Presario 900 with ATI radeon and Mobile XP1800+. Whenever I run certain games in dosbox, they work fine at first but after about 10 seconds the keyboard controls begin to lag horribly.. when you press and release a key, it has a lag of several seconds and it seems to change randomly. When you exit and enter the game again, it's the same thing over again. Fine at first, then suddenly begins to lag. I have tried with small cycles, max cycles, different frame skips and cores but it always happens. This doesn't happen in other SDL apps and games that I've tried. Also using different output= methods made no difference to the problem.
Have you ever experienced anything like this and do you have any ideas how to fix it?
At first I thought it might have something to do with the frequency scaling (Power Now, AMD's idea of Speed Step.) However even when I force it to max frequency all the time, the lag still happens.
