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First post, by whocrazy

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Hello there. I'm having trouble trying to get crimewave running. I am using dosbox 0.63 on windows xp sp2 under ntfs with an nvidia geforce 4000mx display card.
Every time I try to start up crime wave, I get to the bit where it asks me what display card to select, but then after I select the display card, the whole system slows down to a crawl.
and I mean the whole computer, not just dosbox. Can anyone help? I could attach the game in a .zip file so that other people can try it out.
Thanks

Reply 1 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

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Isn't Crime Wave one of those games using RealSound(tm) technology? You may have some problems with sound (slowdowns?) using DOSBox.

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Reply 2 of 3, by DosFreak

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Deleted the attachment since as far as I know the game isn't free. The game is easily found on the net anyways for anyone that wants to troubleshoot the problem.

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Reply 3 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

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Crime Wave was one of the first VGA titles I tried in the eighties. On my mighty Amstrad PC2086 (8Mhz 8086 - PVGA1A 256KB vga).Most of my friends had Amigas 500 or PCs with CGA or Monochrome. When i first saw the digitised videos my jaw dropped to the floor. Other than that the game is pretty linear and plain boring.

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