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First post, by bur

Posted on 2009-03-17, 11:27

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I have a problem with Secret Agent Max. If I set the cycles too high the game runs much too fast. But if I set them so that the game runs properly the loading times get quite high.

I have it set to cycles=1200 now (on an X2 5200) and that way the game runs nice in the level but the loading takes a little long.

It's not a huge problem, but when I played this game on my 486 and real DOS it worked well. The game neither ran too fast nor was the loading taking that long. It was not even a second while now it's maybe 5s.

Reply 1 of 5, by danielc

Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:16

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Well it might just be something you have to live with. That's the thing with emulation, it's never perfect. Many OLD-older games are actually clock dependant, I remember installing the original Ken's Labrynth on my X2 5000+ in pure DOS (my onboard soundcard has BIOS level SB16 emulation), and it was like 50000% too fast haha! Using MOSLO fixed that for me.

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Reply 2 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:37

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Make sure your change the core= values in DOSBox.conf as well as cycles.

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Reply 3 of 5, by danielc

Posted on 2009-03-17, 22:58

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Ah yea true, setting it to "normal" might help hey? Or even Auto is worth a shot.

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Reply 4 of 5, by Harekiet

Posted on 2009-03-18, 07:22

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There's a hotkey you can bind in the keymapper that will run dosbox as fast as possible at the current cycles, should press that during the loading scenes.

Reply 5 of 5, by bur

Posted on 2009-03-18, 15:03

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Thanks, I'll try the core=

The hotkey is a nice idea also but the loading doesn't take that long, having to press a button twice is more work than just waiting through it.

So you're probably right and I have to live with it. Not really a problem. Though I still don't really understand how a game can be too slow in one part and too fast in another. Whatever... 😀

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