Which game, which version of dosbox?

Well it could be that your computer is too slow for running the games you're trying in dosbox.
Emulating requires a lot of power. I'd say my P3 800 turns into a 386 in dosbox. Anyway search the forum for setting that get the max out of your computer in dosbox.

Yeah, it could be that you have your frameskip so high that everything is way choppy, but that you're only noticing it with the mouse cursor because the game(s) you're playing don't have much animation.

`Moe` wrote:

Which game, which version of dosbox?

The version is 0.63

The games, well, all that used a mouse. Guns or Butter, SimEarth, and Dogfight. The games that used keyboard interfaces (FireTeam 2200 and Empire) worked at least as fast as they did on an 8088. I'm leaning toward the idea that this machine is too slow.

Thanks for the reply!

You ought to be able to run 8088 games on there. Try setting scaler=none, run in a window, and set frameskip below 3.

HunterZ wrote:

You ought to be able to run 8088 games on there. Try setting scaler=none, run in a window, and set frameskip below 3.

Moved the game setup to my work machine (Dell D610 Pentium M-equipped laptop) and the mouse is smooth as silk without any playing around with the config.

I need a new game machine. Yep...

He should try the smartscreen patch.

DosFreak wrote:

He should try the smartscreen patch.

What's that? Is that a setting? Can you point me at docs?

Thanks for the reply.