Hi, to begin with I'm new to this site so greetings everyone 😉 . Anyways, my problem taunts me for ages.... I've been coming across problems with DOS games lagging and trying to solve these problems with (barely) no luck.... OK, here's the deal:

To begin with, the same things happen to my 2 IBM laptops, the 1st one is a T42 model, Intel Centrino 1,7Ghz, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon 7500 32MB & 320GB HDD (the partition with Windows 98SE is 35GB). The 2nd one is 390X with Intel Pentium 3 500Mhz, 128MB RAM & 12GB HDD, of course with Windows 98SE. So I can assume there must be some software problems.

When I try to play games like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 1/2, Heretic of Hexen, when some new texture/sound FX is about to load, the games freeze for 1 second or less but it gets very annoying and sometimes it's almost impossible to play.... I tried everything as long as I could find. Tried to edit file config.sys, adding files=xx, buffers=xx, loading himem.sys, smartdrv.exe with double buffer, editing system.ini file like adding LocalLoadHigh=1 but all that just barely helped, the game is still sometimes unplayable.... It's not like the games don't work, they work flawlessy but the problem appears as I can see when the hard drive is loading something new. But, what's pretty funny, when I load the games from a pendrive and play them, they work all perfect, even when something is loading but you know, playing games from a pendrive is just lame, I have tons of free memory on HDDs..... If you know the solution of my problem, I'd love to know it. Your response will be very appreciated!!

Best regards and Happy New Year!!