Make sure your using a CVS build. You can fine one in my signature.

You gulikoza's or ykhwong's.

Still haven't taken the plunge on trying Daggerfall. I tried Terminator: Skynet which uses the same engine, and couldn't quite get it running playably on my Atlon XP 3200+, so I don't have much more hope for Daggerfall (which would only potentially be faster due to not using 3D models for enemies and such).

Arena pushes my system, as I can get it running smoothly at full detail but then I get occasional keyboard lag.

Interestingly, Fade to Black runs quite well, even at 640x400 or whatever its highest res is.

Still haven't taken the plunge on trying Daggerfall. I tried Terminator: Skynet which uses the same engine, and couldn't quite get it running playably on my Atlon XP 3200+, so I don't have much more hope for Daggerfall (which would only potentially be faster due to not using 3D models for enemies and such).

Arena pushes my system, as I can get it running smoothly at full detail but then I get occasional keyboard lag.

Interestingly, Fade to Black runs quite well, even at 640x400 or whatever its highest res is

Wish I could say the same for System Shock at anything other than the standard resolution. Its playable at 320x200 (and just barely at 320x400) on my Athlon FX-55, but set a higher setting and you are playing another, not-quite-as delightful game called Count the Pretty Picture Slideshow!

Is that with the latest CVS and/or release candidate, with the optimized scaler code and partial screen updates?

Daggerfall runs quite nice when I'm using 20,000 cycles in the normal core on my AMD Athlon 64 3500+.

You must have DOSBOX pretty badly set up then. Future Shock is perfectly playable and fluent - and that was when I tested it at only 30000 cycles, while my AMD 64 3200+ can easily do 65000-75000 now.

On my Athlon64 3700+, System Shock is sort of playable in SVGA. The latest builds don't enhance much, however, since optimized screen updates don't apply there. Many areas are playable, but in some locations it's Hierophant's slideshow game.

System Shock runs ok on my AMD 64 FX-53 alright, but the sound is where the issues lie. 😒

Games like Doom, Arena and such I run at 34000 cycles w/ Dynamic and they are perfect. I've even run Duke3D and the results amazed me somewhat, although I would rather stick to Jonof's port for stability.

I have gotten System Shock to good playability in the 640 modes. 60,000 cycles is necessary though. If I overclocked my FX-55 I might get better results. However, playing it in VDMS is still a bit smoother.

60k cycles? What CPU speed do you have? That's pretty high. My P4 2.8 only goes up to about 30k before maxing out usage.

I'm gunna try one of the CVS builds to see if they help

The vanilla DOSBOX 0.63 is many months outdated - the CVS builds let you double the amount. Of course, a P4, I noticed, is less able than an AMD 64 with the same Ghz amount. My P4 2.6 is far slower than my old AMD 2400+ too!

HeX: the higher cycles can be used in CVS builds because of recent optimizations to the rendering code in DOSBox.