First post, by Cabalist
Hi, I am a Gentoo Linux user. I just installed Blood and DosBox and was wondering if anyone had any tips for how to boost the performance. I am running:
Athlon XP 1700+
512mb PC133 RAM
GeForce3 Ti500 64mb
SoundBlaster Audigy
Gentoo Linux (2.6.11-love2)
DOSbox 0.63
I have moved from the DOS4GW to dos32a and done all the things in the 'How to run programs that demand more resources from your Computer' guides for speeding it up. I am running the 'dynamic' CPU core but what I can gather from the forums this is unstable. What should I be using instead? (full,simple,normal?)
Inside of Blood's config I am running the lowest resolution (320x200) and using Gravis Ultrasound rather than Sound Blaster. I have reduced audio quality to 11025. The sound is terribly distorted and skippy.
I was also curious on how what is the acceptable range for cycles on my processor. I can take mine up to 20000 in game but get a crash quickly. There is a lot of screen shearing. (the top and bottom don't match for half a second) My CPU hits 99% at about 21000. And just now I took it up to 30000 just to see the max and though I didn't get a crash I saw no significant increase in performance and if anything there was more screen shearing.
I have no issue working with the CVS version but would that offer any speedups that anyone knows about?
If there is anyone here who runs Blood I would love to hear any tips you had.
Here is my config (I wasn't sure if posting it was a faux pas here), If there is anything glaringly wrong here I would appreciate a comment.
[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
fullresolution=0x0
output=surface
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=highest,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt
[dosbox]
language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=40
[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=none
[cpu]
core=dynamic
cycles=3000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20
[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=11025
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10
[midi]
mpu401=true
intelligent=true
device=default
config=
[sblaster]
type=sb16
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050
[gus]
gus=true
rate=11025
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=true
[bios]
[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
[modem]
modem=false
comport=2
listenport=23
[ipx]
ipx=false
[autoexec]
mount C /home/tak/DOSbox -freespace 850
C:
cd BLOOD