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First post, by Mr_Blastman

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I'm having a strange problem in Terra Nova. It runs and all just fine--but one of my weapons, the multipulsar, does no damage. It literally goes through everything it shoots, -other- than a building. It damages buildings perfectly. If I shoot a teammate or an enemy unit, well, it doesn't hurt them at all. I've tried everything--shooting them, targeting them, then shooting them, and even shooting at their feet, yet, it still does no damage to them.

I have tried this in version 1.08 and version 1.09. Both produce the same results. Here is where it gets really odd--the upgraded multipulsar, the next-tier one, that one does damage! I've only made it to Mission 13 so far, but it is the weapon you get around that point.

Railgun does damage fine. Grenades work. The laser works.

I've even tried setting dosbox to Pentium mode... still doesn't work.

Now, I don't use vanilla Dosbox--I'm using the Dosbox Daum build managed by Taewoong if this makes any difference. I'll test in Guilikoza's and report back, plus vanilla.

I have footage, too. Buried in there somewhere is me using it.

http://www.twitch.tv/mr_blastman/c/4794302

Last edited by Mr_Blastman on 2014-08-02, 06:13. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 6 of 10, by Exxenmann

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Exxenmann wrote:

Having the same issue with Dosbox 0.74 testing some other emulators now.

I cant find other Emulators and PCem looks quite complex.
As I am 26 I dont know which BIOS / Machine to choose to emulate 😀

Reply 7 of 10, by F2bnp

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I think you may be on to something. I was testing the game on a Tualatin 1.4 + FX5700 a couple of days ago, to see how fast it can run it, and I was trying to shoot pirates with the Multipulsar and the shots didn't seem to register. I didn't really give it much thought, thinking it was just me sucking at connecting the shots and switched back to the laser.

On a K6-III+ 550MHz though, this is a non-existent problem. Maybe it is speed related?

Reply 8 of 10, by Exxenmann

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Does someone know of a possibility to "limit" Emulation Speeds in Dosbox?

I registered two Problems that might be related to that until now:
- you are running quite fast but turn very slow
- some weapons dont connect (RailGun, Multipulsar etc.) but some do (Laser, Particlebeam etc.)

Reply 9 of 10, by Exxenmann

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When playing with 5% CPU Cycles the Problem is gone.
At 20% CPU Cycles every ~5th shot connects.

But at 5% the game is slow an laggy...
Does someone know a way around this? (maybe frame skipping?)

Reply 10 of 10, by Exxenmann

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After some Tests for me it is best playable with these settings (all weapons connect):

[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1024x768
windowresolution=1024x768
output=ddraw
waitonerror=true
priority=normal,normal
mapperfile=
usescancodes=true
autolock=true
sensitivity=100

[cpu]
core=normal
cputype=pentium_slow
cycles=fixed 46000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=true
scaler=normal2x