I've gotten System Shock to work on DOSBox 0.63, but it's really slow and choppy. This could be my computer, I have a slight overheating problem. But newer games aren't this choppy on my computer, so I think it's something else.
If you're asking for suggestions, give us more information about your system and how you have DOSBox configured.
system:
Dell Inspiron 8500
Pentium 4-M
1.18 GHz
256MB of RAM
64MB Nvidia GeForce4
...it's your basic laptop computer. Not like I built it or anything. I don't have DOSBox configured any differently than it is by default. I'm just running the batch file through DOSBox. Not much more I can say, I'm not a computer expert.
You'd be better off running it on the host with that slow of a computer.
You'll at least want to make sure that DOSBox is configured to use the dynamic core, and then run the cycles up as high as you can without maxing out your CPU usage.
My experience with sshock showed: dynamic core is too unstable to run it reliably (but you just try it, perhaps it got better since I last tried it), and my Athlon64 3700+ is barely able (and I mean it) to play it in SVGA. VGA is OKish. I really doubt dosbox will run system shock on your PC. You will have to invest some time to do heavy tuning and hope that dynamic core works, then it might be possible.
