First post, by Silent Supporter
Good day,
I am a longtime supporter of DOSBox and what you guys are doing. I hope you can assist me in a sticky problem that I've been fighting with for quite some time.
I am using the latest version of DOSBox and am attempting to record footage of video games in action using the Alt+Ctrl+F5 command.
Specifically, I am encountering tremendous loss of performance when I try to record in Shadow Warrior and Blood, both Build Engine FPS games, when I set their resolutions to 800x600. They play perfectly well if I record at 320x200, and play very well at 800x600 when I'm not recording.
While this operation succeeds at 800x600, the frame rates in the games drop from about 70 to 20 or even worse during recording, rendering the games barely playable.
No other topic on recording that I've looked up seems to touch quite on this issue, and while I've tried quite a few different solutions, I'd prefer to go into this with an open mind and try fix it with the assistance of an expert. I'm willing to try everything once again.
I am writing the recordings to a SSD, so I suspect that it might not be a case of writing to the drive that is causing the bottleneck.
Below are my system specs. If I monitor the performance during recording I don't notice a tremendous increase in stress on the system.
Regardless, I am willing to try anything to get this working as smoothly as possible.
Thanks for you time. I look forward to hearing from you!