What about other games? Do they run better?

Mirek

Did you raise the amount of cycles?

Whay cycles and frameskip value do you use?

I had been using 3000 cycles, and a Frame Skip value of 0. Raising the cycles to 10,000 does not help at all.

Use a frameskip value of 1 or 2. Barely noticeable and much less cpu demanding. 😎

And set core=dynamic, if possible.

No good. It's still as choppy as ever. I set Frameskip to 2, cycles to 10,000 and core to dynamic.

try settting your colordepth to 16 and select output=overlay in dosbox.conf

Can I do that using D-Fend? I'm not very familiar with how to work DosBox by itself.

the second yes.
the first
right click on your desktop go to properties and then browse around

OK, I did both, and it's still not helping.

Tried defragging the comp and checking for spyware to make sure it wasn't hardware, and nothing doing there. I think there's something wrong with the software, or else the configuration.

Watch what processes are taking up CPU time in Task Manager.

Dosbox. It uses about 50% of my computer's resources. Nothing else uses more than 1 or 2 percent.

I also have dosbox on a dell laptop (700m). I think it's the sigmatel soundcard, for some reason any sort of soundblaster output (voice or midi) causes me a lot of skipping. After I switched to MT-32 emulation, the sound was MUCH better and the skipping stopped.

How do I make that switch?

I can't seem to get to the website for the MT-32 Emulation. It's refusing my connection.

OK, the site is back up. Let me see if I can get it to work.

Well, I may not have installed MT-32 properly (I couldn't seem to find the .inf file I was supposed to point Windows to in the Add New Hardware menu), but I tried running the binary file and it didn't change anything. Did I do something wrong, and if not, is there anything else I can do?