Is your dosbox.conf set to core=dynamic? Have you tried replacing JA's DOS4GW with DOS32a?

no my core dynamic is set to normal? so if i set this to dynamic i don't have to do anything else, just change the normal to dynamic and it should make it work better?? hows that work if you don't mind me asking

and no i didn't replace the JA dos4GW to dos32a, how do i do this?? and what does this do?

Olmstov wrote:

just change the normal to dynamic and it should make it work better?? hows that work if you don't mind me asking

It activates a different CPU emulation in DOSBox that is more effective = more speed. The dynamic core has problems with some programs, so it is not the default, but when it works it is good.

Olmstov wrote:

and no i didn't replace the JA dos4GW to dos32a, how do i do this?? and what does this do?

Use the SEARCH, Luke!

okay i switched dos4GW to dos32a and i switched the core to dynamic
it works a little better but it's still pretty choppy, i set frameskip to 5, and cycles to 30000, i can push this up to 40 000 but it doesn't make a difference just makes the cpu cap out at 100 sometimes
anything else i can do with this game??

alright, new note to my problems, i started playing it on multiplayer using those new settings and part way through my first turn it crashed, i'm gonna guess this has to do with the dynamic core?? i'm testing this out now playing the game on just single player and i've noticed something interesting, with these current settings i had for the multiplayer the game is flying, but on multiplayer over the ipxnet it's choppy and slow as hell
does that mean the problem has something to do with the ipxnet configuration and not the speed the game is trying to be run at?

I've also noticed this.

I can play Transport Tycoon Deluxe in dosbox just fine. The moment I click the button that makes the game attempt IPX stuff, it practically dies in speed. Oddly enough, the MIDI music in the game is normal, whereas the midi music would normally slow down if I started dropping the emulated cpu cycles....

I can actually get two computers running dosbox and TTD to connect and give a message that the connection was successful, but the game is too unresponsive to do anything. After about a few minutes, the game might recognize that I clicked 1-player mode, and all of a sudden its responsive again and not slow.

Something is wrong or unexpected with the IPX emulation that causes the game to be unresponsive. If I had time, I'd dig into the source myself.

same problem with tycoon2 here!
any suggestions?
thank you!

Use Dosbox 0.65