What are the specs of the system you are running dosbox on?
For the output, that depends on your system/gfx card, just try them
all and you'll know.
You should be able to get near the maximum of speed possible with
dosbox when using dosbox 0.65, setting cycles=auto, core=dynamic
(if the pc is an x86 one).

400 mhz is a bit low to run heavy games in DOSBox.

WOE came out in '95 and uses an enhanced-wolfenstein 3D-style engine. I tried it on my 1Ghz machine, and it seems to be fairly demanding. (Sound started stuttering above 6000 cycles). I doubt it'll run smooth on a 400Mhz system. (Btw. cycles=auto seems to cause midi to not be detected, and core=dynamic doesn't really seem to help much). As with most 3D games, setting frameskip to 1 or 2 helps.

Thanx, everyone...I really needed some help. Yeah I know a 400 mhz PC isn't very good for this, but like they say - 'it ain't much, but it's all we've got'.

Although; which 'output' would be best on my current PC (surface, ddraw, etc)? I've got directx 7 at least, probably 8, for whatever that info is worth.

Hopefully I'll be getting a 1.5 Ghz laptop from a friend soon, but until then.

I don't really care too much about the midi being missed - the music to Woe is just... really creepy for some reason...I still have nightmares once in a while where I'm stuck in the game. 8-{

Anyway thank you all for the help. 😁

Oh! BTW: is there a walkthrough anywhere online or someone who knows how to get past this one part in the game

...you come out of a turbolift, there's a spaceship/small shuttle in a bay, and the exhaust vents are open and you get a message in the HUD saying to 'close and repressurize'.

I closed the vents, but can't figure out the three wheels where all the piping is. Help?

One last thing: to use the cheats you have to 'start the game with the WOE TranSend command line'. Just HOW the heck do you DO that?! 😕

Output mode doesn't usually make much difference, and the best one varies between graphics cards. I'd go for Overlay, DDraw, or OpenGL. Just try them all and see. The command line is what you type to load the game. So, "WOE TranSend". If you're using a frontend, I'm not sure how you'd do it. Depends on the frontend, but it might have a section for additional parameters or command line parameters or something, which would be "TranSend".

Doh! After 15 years of computer experience I should have figured out the command line thing...guess I was so lustered I couldn't think.

(later) I did try that, and all the cheats work reliably except the 'warp to level' one - that usually locks up the game. Oh well!