http://www.doomsdayhq.com/

www.zdoom.org

Solving a sudden decrease in system performance by pointing to some game ports? Hm.

Any way check your system with some antivirus suite, verify that the fans are
working correctly, monitor the system's heat transportation etc.

Grab Sysinternal's procexp.exe(now at Microsoft, it's free) to see which process is pulling the 50% load, or use the not as good built in windows process viewer:) That will at least tell you if it's some scenario like wd has described or is in fact DOSBox.

Its definitely dosbox causing the issue. If I look next to dosbox in the windows process viewer when I have a game running, its using the most memory out of anything else. And as I said before, everything clears up ass soon as I close dosbox.

As far as the problem being heat, virus, or fans, I dont believe thats the issue as I have plenty of other high end games and they all work flawlessly. UT3, CoD4, etc...

I've used doomsday before back in the day to play doom 2 and its actually pretty cool. I downloaded it again so that I could at least play the game in the meantime. I do like playing the game in its original form though which is why I created this thread in the first place. So I would like to get the problem resolved...

thanks

Only when running a game?

Tried unplugging your USB devices? Mouse, joystick, keyboard...

Did something update your graphics drivers? Try switching output mode in DOSbox.

And which DOSBox are you running? The hacked version that comes with Steam, or an locally installed copy?

I do like playing the game in its original form though

Like on a 384/486 with a CRT monitor? You cannot play a game in an emulator and expect to play it "in it's original form". Mabye a close aproximation but not "in it's original form".

Last I heard the version of DosBox packaged with the games on Steam was kind of old. I don't keep up with Steam so I don't know if they've updated it recently or not. The latest version of DosBox available from the DosBox website is 0.72.

/EDIT MiniMax beat me.

Damn you MiniMax! Damn you to hell! 😀

Ok not the "original form" but more in its original form than with Doomsday on top of it...

Ive been using the version that comes with the game off Steam which is .71

Lemme try a few more things...

When you say you got it off Steam, I wonder if you're using a version of DOSBox modified by Valve, or downloaded from dosbox.com

If it worked for awhile, but then started having problems at some point, try using a clean conf file or even reinstall DOSBox (preferably the official build). If it has always had the problem, but just takes awhile for it to develop, you could also try binding DOS32A into DOOM.EXE; but I wouldn't have high hopes of that resolving the kind of problem you describe.

edit: heh, too slow... jinx?

DosFreak wrote:

Damn you MiniMax! Damn you to hell! 😀

Been there, didn't like the place, returned to haunt VOGONS.

Been there, didn't like the place

Hm why not?

When you download the game off steam, it comes with version .71 of dosbox.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game through steam which deletes all the content including the conf file.

could you attach the configfile used by the dosbox ?

I thought that steam had updated the dosbox version to 0.72 nowadays.

Heres the conf file. The only thats been edited is the CORE and CYCLES entries. Everything else should be default values.

Your machine is more than sufficient to run the game. Your config seems to be OK.

You probably don't want to hear that, but i think you should contact Valve's customer support. I mean, they sold you the product, and they got money from you, so they are responsible for supporting "their" product. AFAIK, nobody knows if they've changed DOSBox' code.

An alternative would be to use an "official" DOSBox version, downloaded from the DOSBox website. It should be easy to use your existing config and data files with that DOSBox version.

Btw, i remember a lenghty thread about Valve's "DOSBox version". At that time, we were discussing how support requests regarding that version should be handled. I think that, at that time, Valve didn't have any contact to the DOSBox devs, so the tenor was to redirect requests to Valve.

for the sake of testing:

• download 0.72 from dosbox.com
• leave all settings at default!
• try to run the game.

if it is still slow:

• change output to overlay in dosbox.conf
• try run the game

As far as I know doom is protected mode so core=auto and cpu=auto should be fine

Addict The dosbox code they use is unmodified.

and it was working flawlessly for a while and then a week or 2 ago I started having problems

Any way check your system with some antivirus suite, verify that the fans are
working correctly, monitor the system's heat transportation etc.