MiniMax wrote:jvieira wrote:EDIT: In playing with it, its still not great performance, but it is playable, and it no longer locks up. I do still hope that one day a solution can be found to the above issues, but in the mean time, this will suffice.
What are your settings for things like core, cycles, and output?
Well let's see. I've been changing things about alot, but here are some of my settings from current dosbox.conf which I think may be relevant:
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false (is double buffering slower?)
fullresolution=original (not sure if there is a better setting here)
output=surface
frameskip=2
scaler=none (was on normal2x, not seeing alot of difference)
core=normal (tried dynamic briefly, it didn't seem alot faster)
cycles=12000
If there is something of interest I have missed here, let me know, I'll mention what it's set too.
I am not certain on the best cycles setting yet.. I played around in the game about an hour so far, and I found that it would flucuate. Maybe it's just my perception. I just couldn't seem to lock down one number that worked all around. I'd constantly fiddle with it. I'd say I have moved the cycles between 9000-15000 range, up and down, trying to experiement (and looking at CPU usage).
Oh and I also tried dos32a extension, by changing the four main game .exe's to use it. But then I started getting a problem with the mouse stopping responding, and read another post on these boards saying that switching back to DOS4GW fixed it for them (and it did me as well).
Still, this is a mile and and half away from where I was before I changed the CD rom mount command. It's not that bad, I probably made it sound worse that it is in my last response.. It definately could be snappier and better. I wish it was just a bit more... But it's working good enough to play, that is for sure.