dynamic core should work to make it playable. it's almost playable on a athlon 1800 XP.

Fat32 shouldn't matter. DOSBox doesn't care about the underlying filesystem.

tried dynamic core. the game runs fine for the most part except when u get in the actual game, like in the field with ur agents. at that point it becomes slideshow city. I have a 2 gig processor & a gig of ram, I wouldn't think this should be that big of a hurdle.

also, what's loadfix do?

Here's my current config for Syndicate Wars...

1[cpu]
2cycles=20000
3core=dynamic
4cycleup=500
5cycledown=20
6
7[dosbox]
8machine=vga
9memsize=63
10language=
11captures=D:\Program Files\D-Fend\Capture
12
13[sdl]
14output=surface
15fullscreen=true
16fulldouble=false
17fullfixed=false
18fullresolution=640x480
19hwscale=1.00
20autolock=false
21sensitivity=100
22waitonerror=true
23priority=higher,normal
24mapperfile=mapper.txt
25
26[render]
27scaler=none
28frameskip=0
29aspect=false
30
31[sblaster]
32type=sb16
33base=220
34irq=7
35dma=1
36hdma=5
37mixer=true
38oplmode=auto
39oplrate=22050
40
41[gus]
42gus=true
43rate=22050
44base=240
45irq1=5
46irq2=5
47dma1=1
48dma2=1
49ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
50
51[midi]
52mpu401=true
53intelligent=true
54device=default
55config=
56
57[speaker]
58pcspeaker=true
59pcrate=22050
60tandyrate=22050

61disney=true
62
63[dos]
64xms=true
65ems=false
66
67[mixer]
68nosound=false
69rate=22050
70blocksize=2048
71prebuffer=10
72
73[modem]
74modem=false
75listenport=23
76comport=COM2
77
78[directserial]
79directserial=false
80Comport=COM1
81realport=1
82defaultbps=1200
83parity=N
84bytesize=8
85stopbit=1
86
87[ipx]
88ipx=false
89
90[autoexec]
91mount C "N:\"   -ioctl
92C:
93cd\
94cd SYNDIC~1\
95MAIN.EXE /w /g
96exit
97

Thanks again for everyones time.

That config file is obviously for DOSBox 0.63. You should download the much improved 0.65 version if you haven't done it already (it requires a good bit less CPU power because it's more optimized), and then recreate the config file. After that, you could try different things, for example...

1.) Try output= something else than surface. It depends on your video card and its drivers which one works best.

2.) Try enabling some 320x200 doublescan mode in your video card settings if you can, then use scaler=none.

Loadfix is to be used if you have a game that doesn't like the high amount of conventional memory that DosBox has free. Older games do not recognize this higher value and will think it actually has less memory available. You run loadfix to eat up memory so that the game that requires it is happy.

Is there another DOS emulator out there that perhaps has faster vid options? I just can't seem to get this thing to go at the right speed.

Did you update to 0.65 and recreate config? 0.65 is much faster in the video department because it uses much more intelligent rendering.

Alright, it's been awhile but I'm back to give this another try. I'd really appreciate some help here folks...

Qbix
dynamic core should work to make it playable. it's almost playable on a athlon 1800 XP.

Currently I am running an AMD Athlon 3000+ processor, it's clocked at stock speed so that's about 2 gig, I have 2 gig of RAM, the vid card is an nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP, Sound Blaster Platinum & I even have a SATA hard drive. not the fastest PC but far from the slowest, I'd say it's at least average.

again, I tried dynamic core, it's playable but the framerate is far from smooth; in-game anyways. again, it runs fine in the menus & whatnot but once you're out in the field & you have your agents to control - it' slideshowie.

I'm not sure if Syndicate Wars is best for extended or expanded memory, I've tried searching on this but came up empty, all I could fine were basic system requirements, nothing more.

Qbix
That config file is obviously for DOSBox 0.63.

I've never had that version, not then, not now. I was new to DOSBox then (still am now, just getting back into it) so I just downloaded it. The only version I have ever had is the 0.65 version & yes I did check the readme file to verify the version, I have 0.65 man.

If anyone has this game running smoothly, please copy & paste or post your config file for me.

Perhaps I should look into some frontends? I prefer setting everything up myself in a batch file, especially considering I use GameEx & I want this to work in conjunction with that. Anyways, any help would be appreciated here guys & gals. Thanks in advance.

> I've never had that version, not then, not now.

This can NOT be. Where did you get that version from? Please re-download
the 0.65 release from the dosbox homepage. Much has changed in-between
those versions, especially speed wise which might affect you.

For dosbox 0.65 set core=dynamic and cycles=auto in dosbox.conf, which
does NOT work for 0.63 and earlier.

DOSBox Homepage

Go to download section.

Alright, I did what you said & it works well. Thank you for your time.

Glad to hear you had it sorted out. You are welcome.