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First post, by Mr_Staypuft

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First of all - thanks to the Dosbox devs.
Just discovered it, and it's amazing.

Now, been playing Blood on Dosbox 0.70.

My system AMD 3200+, 1 gig ram, nVidia 6600GT.

Game runs well, with cycles set to 150,000 which has my cpu
running at about 80%.
In the game, video set to 640x480.

BUT - when playing the game, it often has "sticky keys".

Ie:

1. I run forward (pressing "W")
2. I let go of "W" key.
3. It keeps running forward, have to press lots of other directions in order to make it "forget" forward.

Same thing happens for most directions, at different times.
Early levels weren't so bad.
But now I'm up to level 1-4 and it does this most of the time.
Arghhh!!

I've tried searching for "blood" here, and read the dosbox FAQ - couldn't find any mention of this issue.

Is there a setting I should adjust?

Once again, sorry if this is a common question, but I *have* made a good effort
to solve it myself before posting.

Reply 1 of 3, by leileilol

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I usually had sticky key problems as well, but it seemed to be related to the ATI Catalyst drivers' annyoing ati2evxxs loaded trying to poll the keyboard for 'insta tweak' hotkeys. Terminating those helped. If that fails (of course, you have an nvidia card) try going into dxdiag and disabling or turning down sound accelleration.

This all assumes if you are using Windows, however.

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Reply 2 of 3, by wd

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Also try setting the priority (in the [sdl] section of dosbox.conf) to normal.

Reply 3 of 3, by Mr_Staypuft

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wd - that was it! Thankyou x 1,000,000!

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