First post, by 1130210
I have a problem with DOSBox games. Its more a question and not so much a "I simply cannot play any DOSBox games they are virtually unplayable" Anyway, my question is Why do some DOSBox games run slow and other do not? Hopefully, someone can give me an answer and a solution to this problem. Let me explain...
Some games that I have problems with are, just randomly, Wing Commander and The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall. Wing commander and Daggerfall both work at a fairly good speed. But, both of them slow down at certain moments throughout the entire game. These moments make the games unplayable at certain parts in the game. The slow down is incredibly annoying because the noticeable change in fps is infuriating and makes the games unplayable. In Daggerfall it slows down inside the houses (not the outside or the dungeons) in Wing Commander it slows down when ever I face a ship. These things are obviously annoying because they make questing and exploring towns annoying, in daggerfall, and with wing commander it destroys the combat.
I wonder am I just being picky with the slowdown, does this happen with anyone else, and is there anyway to fix this? As I said, this happens with so many games and besides my system specs are more then suitable for the games
Nvidia 8600 GT
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.10 GHz
Vista
2814 MB of ram
60 GB of hard disc space
I always see on different forums people talking about DOS games running slow for them. But the answer is always get more ram or get a 1.5 GHz processor. But I have well enough system requirements.
Anyway, please help me try to fix this problem.