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First post, by Ekkoe

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Hey boards,

I downloaded and installed Daggerfall, later version (2.13 I believe). At first, the game lagged when I went in and out of it using alt+tab, but I figured a restart would fix that. Everything was running fine until I got outside, where it started lagging. I did some research and quickly found out about the cycles, so I made it a fixed number, starting with 2000, lags, 4000, lags, 10000, perfect.

After some playing, all of a sudden the lags returned outside. I tried restarting several times, I've put the cycles up to 20000 and even 40000, but also lowered it to 6000 and 2000, but no changes. Weird part it, it only lags full screen, so not when it's windowed. Problem is, I have no mouse when it's windowed so I can't really go without full screen.

The info coming right up:
Motherboard: ASUS P5B
CPU: Intel Core2Duo 6600 (2x 2.4gb)
Ram: 2gb DDR-800 (dxdiag doesn't show type, if it's really relevant I'll go deep)
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 256mb
Sound card: Creative Soundblaster (again, I can be more specific if necessary)
Sound mode: ESS Audiodrive for MIDI output
Video: didn't change defaults, not sure, if relevant please explain where to check
Version dosbox: 0.73

I run on Windows XP.

Thanks for reading, hope you can help out.

Cheers,

Ekkoe

Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

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Change output= to a different value.
change priority= to the same values

Interior locations will use less cycles than exterior locations.

Hit Ctrl+F10 to capture mouse.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Ekkoe

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I made it:
output=overlay
priority=overlay

I dunno if that's the way to do it, but the lag outside is a lot better, thanks very much 😀

Reply 4 of 4, by Ekkoe

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I put it on higher, higher. I put it on normal, normal earlier after which it started lagging more than it did before, now it's the same. Still a little laggy, but perfectly playable. I'll experiment some more if I get tired of the lag altogether 😜

Thank you very much!