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Descent runs far too fast in FreeDOS

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First post, by RintaDev

Posted on 2023-06-28, 22:01

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I'm trying to play Descent in FreeDOS, but I need to use both DOS32A and a slowdown program. I'm currently using MoSlo, but I cannot run something like C:drivers\moslo\moslo.com C:freedos\bin\dos32a.exe C:games\descent\descent.exe because MoSlo can't run stuff with command line parameters. Is there a way to slowdown stuff with command line parameters? If not, does anybody know where the file is to replace DOS4GW with DOS32A inside of the descent.exe file?

Reply 1 of 2, by jmarsh

Posted on 2023-06-28, 22:18

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descent -640x480

Runs the game in "hi res" 640x480 mode which runs at a more reasonable speed on faster PCs. You do lose the cockpit overlay display mode though.

Reply 2 of 2, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2023-06-28, 22:34

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Depending on the motherboard chipset and if don't like the barebones HUD in Descent, there is another slowdown utility that relies on ACPI throttling called Throttle. Add the -C command line switch when using it to avoid disabling the L1 cache.

BTW, you can replace the DOS/4GW extender found in the Descent executable with DOS32/A by using the SUNSYS Bind Utility (SB.EXE):

1sb /r descent.exe

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