First post, by zschni
Okay, after messing around days with Extreme Assault I have a few questions about DosBOX 0.74.
1. I finally got the game working with 3dfx and with Daum's SVN build under Win7, but I can not lock all the targets with Q or TAB. So I decided to let go of GLIDE emulation.
2. WITHOUT GLIDE (running xa.exe), the game runs perfectly and offers great gaming experience with the latest original DosBOX build under Win7.
BUT, and most importantly, is much more worse under Ubuntu MATE 16.04 with the latest DosBOX build. DosBOX is much slower, and I am having much less FPS. I was using the EXACTLY THE SAME config setting even with Win7 and with Linux, except the autoxec part of corse.
So I have questions for some DosBOX Experts here.
How can DosBOX's performance (and the game's speed the same time) be improved on Ubuntu? Is it something related to Ubuntu's poorer hardware support? Chipset drivers? CPU microcode (tried both, no difference)? Maybe graphics card? I do not have any information about DosBOX using the VGA for some tasks. I even experienced with mate-system-monitor and with windows's task manager, that DosBOX is using even less memory on Win7 but runs more smoothly.
I already posted my config somewhere here but here it is again.
Here is my conf file, I deleted the lines with # (comment lines).
# This is the configurationfile for DOSBox 0.74. (Please use the latest version of DOSBox)
# Lines starting with a # are commentlines and are ignored by DOSBox.
# They are used to (briefly) document the effect of each option.
[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
output=surface
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=highest
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
usescancodes=false
[dosbox]
language=
machine=vesa_nolfb
captures=capture
memsize=128
[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x
[cpu]
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=auto
cycleup=10
cycledown=10
[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=1024
prebuffer=20
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100
[gus]
gus=false
gusrate=44100
gusbase=240
gusirq=5
gusdma=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=44100
tandy=auto
tandyrate=44100
disney=true
[joystick]
joysticktype=none
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false
[serial]
serial1=dummy
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled
[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout=us
[ipx]
ipx=false
[autoexec]
#------------------Extreme Assault------------------
mount c /home/zschni/jatek/EXTREME
imgmount.com d /home/zschni/jatek/images/extreme_assault.cue -t cdrom
c:
xa.exe
Thanks!