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First post, by vorob

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Hi, i've got one one game from my childhood, Wrath Of Earth. I had this problem before, in 1996 and i have it now (lol), when i'm trying to play it via dosbox i've got this error message:

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What do i need to change in dosbox.conf to fix this issue?

Reply 1 of 11, by rcblanke

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ems=false

Reply 2 of 11, by vorob

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Thx, it works.

But game flickers like hell, any common solution? Cause few other games shown same issue.

Reply 3 of 11, by Dominus

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Try different output options in the dosbox config.

Moved to the dosbox forums. When your question concerns dosbox, use the dosbox forum, please

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Reply 4 of 11, by vorob

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I tried ddraw, direcx3d and surface...

Reply 5 of 11, by Dominus

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And the others? Also please try dosbox 0.74, not only a build by Ykhwong or others with multiple patches that might pose a problem.

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Reply 6 of 11, by vorob

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Ok, will try original one. Btw, where can i get dosboz 0.74 in zip? not installer.

Reply 9 of 11, by vorob

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Well, looks like setting cpu cycles for 16% solves the issue...

Reply 10 of 11, by ripsaw8080

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Use fixed cycles of around 10K (cycles=10000) to avoid flickering, and the FM music will work more reliably with that setting as well. WoE uses a 320x240 video mode with square pixels that don't need aspect correction, and enabling aspect correction in DOSBox 0.74 will cause the display to be slightly blurred, so I suggest the aspect=false setting for this particular game.

Reply 11 of 11, by vorob

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ripsaw8080 wrote:

Use fixed cycles of around 10K (cycles=10000) to avoid flickering, and the FM music will work more reliably with that setting as well. WoE uses a 320x240 video mode with square pixels that don't need aspect correction, and enabling aspect correction in DOSBox 0.74 will cause the display to be slightly blurred, so I suggest the aspect=false setting for this particular game.

Thx. Btw, any way to know what cycle number will be ok for specific game before i start? Maybe there is a way to calculate this?