First let me say thank you to the creators of this great program.

I did a search and I did not see my current problem come up

my joystick is attached to the game port of my nForce 1 motherboard and is detected when I set the CPU cycles to 7500, however it isn't detected when I increase the CPU cycles beyond that in the dosbox.conf file. Is there a reason that increasing the CPU cycles causes DOSBox to drop the joystick support? Is there a way for me to force the joystick detection?
I'd like to be able to keep the joystick working as I increase the CPU cycles.

For reference, my system is an Athlon XP 1700+ w/ 512 MB of memory on an NForce 1 motherboard. I run a dual boot Windows XP and gentoo linux system. On Windows, I am using the .61 release and on gentoo, I am using the CVS that I emerged and compiled myself. The problem occurs on both versions of DOSBox.

Thank you,

Brandon Young