First post, by navpirx
The other threads about Blake Stone I've seen don't seem to touch this particular issue, so looks like I need to start my own thread. I'm using DOSBox 0.74 to run Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and the game is actually quite smooth with Core set to Dynamic and Cycles to Max, except for one thing: whenever there's a flash on the screen (like when I'm picking up items or getting hit), the game lags for a second or so. The lag intensity ranges from barely noticeable to very significant. It might not sound like a big deal, but I still find it very annoying.
I've tried the following things: changing various graphics and CPU options in the DOSBox config, patching the game up to 2.1 (the 3.0 patch won't install for some reason), trying the GOG version, trying an older DOSBox version (0.70), updating my graphics card drivers, changing the default graphics card for DOSBox in the NVIDIA control panel. I have a laptop with the following specs: Intel Core i3-3110M, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE 2GB VRAM, Windows 7 64 bit. At this point I'm completely clueless, so any help would be very appreciated.