First post, by unbirthday
Generally the game runs smooth as butter with the right settings (cycles fixed 50000+). When I get to Shao Kahn, I get awful freezing, whereby the image stays still but you can hear your arse being handed to you. It mostly seems to be on Shao Kahn, with it very rarely happening in other fights, but usually for a short period. I've tried every variation of changing core, cputype and cycles. Other games work fine. I tried various setting changes, and observed cpu usage whilst running windowed - it never went above 5%.
My setup is Windows 7 64 bit, Dosbox 0.74, intel haswell, 8GB RAM, using cheapo haswell hd gfx for now. For joypad control, I'm using joy2key, and I have a batch file which selects a config file just for mk3. It goes like this:
[cpu]
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=fixed 50000
[autoexec]
imgmount d D:\Dell\iso\mk3pccdrom.cue -t iso
c:
cd mk3
mk3.exe 666 1000000
exit
Could it be a bug in MK3? Could it be that I'm always running it with cheats to play as smoke/bosses? I'd love to know, because the thought of going all the way through the game again, to be violated by Shao makes me somewhat cry. Can dosbox do savestates or something similiar so that I can save on Shao, and then test furthermore?
As I say, other games work either perfect or near-perfect (Including Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, which must be the best version of it).
I could possibly borrow a core 2 duo laptop, and test MK3 on there to eliminate dosbox and its settings. Might try tomorrow, but I don't want to start hating MK. I had an awful awful ragequit last time.
Any ideas? Anyone?