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First post, by Buricz

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I have problem I can not play the game called Spellcross because of this error

http://thing.wz.cz/spellcross.avi I am made video and it shows the problem with this game When i clicked on slot named intro it has to start video but it does not after that I would like to start new game=Nová hra in my language and as you can see in the short video than I choose the difficulty easy game = lehká hra or you can choose another but it does not influence the function in the last ten seconds of the video you can see my work with mouse and the cursor shows sandglass and it meens that i can not play it means that the game is freezing and Dosbox windows status displays the error: Illegal read from 6071e98b, CS:IP 160: 1C0745 first line

Dosbox vs 0.65 + Dfend

Configuration
Athlon venice 3000+
1024MB DRR RAM
Ati 9800 pro
OS WIN XP

dosbox config

[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1024x768
windowresolution=original
output=ddraw
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
usecancodes=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[dosbox]
language=
machine=vga
captures=C:\Program Files\D-Fend\Capture\spellcross cz
memsize=63

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=none

[cpu]
core=dynamic
cycles=30000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=default
config=

[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]
gus=false
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=1
dma2=1
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=true

[dos]
xms=false
ems=false
umb=false

[bios]
joysticktype=none

[autoexec]
mount C "F:\20060616"
mount D "G:\" -t cdrom -ioctl
C:
cd\
cd \CAULDRON\SPELCROS\
SPELCROS.EXE

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  • SPellcross.JPG
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    SPellcross.JPG
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    Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 1 of 2, by MiniMax

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Did you try chaning the CPU-emulation from dynamic to normal? Normal core is slower than dynamic, but sometimes it is a little better. With normal core you might also need to lower your cycles setting:

[cpu]
core=dynamic
cycles=30000

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