I don't know what CM 967/98 refers to but dosbox.ini has the cycle settings. Regular dosbox will logically put the ini in the dosbox directory, dosbox installers will inconveniently put the ini elsewhere.

awgamer wrote on 2020-05-05, 03:28:

I don't know what CM 967/98 refers to but dosbox.ini has the cycle settings. Regular dosbox will logically put the ini in the dosbox directory, dosbox installers will inconveniently put the ini elsewhere.

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, CM 97/98 refers to the game Championship Manager 97/98. Now to play the game I have to drag that game's file to the dosbox file.

Is there any other way to open a game?

And, as I said I know very little about computers, so is there any easy way for me to change the ini that you speak of?

awgamer wrote on 2020-05-05, 03:28:

Regular dosbox will logically put the ini in the dosbox directory, dosbox installers will inconveniently put the ini elsewhere.

Unless things have changed, dosbox.conf (not dosbox.ini) is available from the Start menu group: DOSBox-0.74->Options->DOSBox 0.74 Options.

>(not dosbox.ini)

Sorry about that, .conf.

>Now to play the game I have to drag that game's file to the dosbox file.

I'm not sure what you mean, what dosbox file you're referring to, and I wouldn't expect that to work. I know of running dosbox.exe and starting things from the DOS command line, auto running by putting things in the autoexec section of the dosbox.conf file and using frontends.

This should explain how to edit your dosbox.conf on Windows:
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf

Thanks for your responses.

Of course, it may just be that my computer is too old and dire to speed up.

awgamer wrote on 2020-05-05, 04:50:

I'm not sure what you mean, what dosbox file you're referring to, and I wouldn't expect that to work.

Dragging a .exe to the DOSBox icon will make DOSBox automatically mount the folder of the .exe and run it.

When you run the game, in the titlebar there should be something like "Cpu speed: 3000 cycles". The "3000" is the default if your DOSBox config has the cycles=auto setting, and if DOSBox did not auto detect that the game needed more. However this auto detect does not always detect that the game needs more cycles, and as such you may want to change it. If instead it shows "Cpu speed: 100% cycles", there is no point in adjusting the setting.

To adjust the setting, open the dosbox config file and find the "cycles=auto" line, and change it to something like "cycles=10000" and see how it goes. You can go higher if needed.