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Old Quickbasic game running very slowly

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First post, by nvictor

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Hello fella,

The game is Super Stack by Oren Bartal (requires EMS)
If you want you can get it here, http://petesqbsite.com/reviews/action/sstack.zip

On my AMD Athlon XP2500+ [1,86 GHz - 192Mb RAM], it's really bizarre that an old QuickBasic game that I used to play on my old pentium runs that slow.

My video card is an ATI Radeon IGP 320M

I'm on Windows XP Service pack 2. I disable the sound so I don't think it's the problem.

I've tried CRTL+F12 to speed up or CTRL+F11 to slow down, without results.

Do you have an idea of why the game is running so slowly?

I've attached the game...

Reply 1 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

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I don't know its original speed, but it seems to run fine for me using DOSBox 0.65 (normal core & 15000 cycles). I have an AMD Sempron 3000+ (2Ghz).

Intel i7 5960X
Gigabye GA-X99-Gaming 5
8 GB DDR4 (2100)
8 GB GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming (Gigabyte)

Reply 2 of 3, by nvictor

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eL_PuSHeR, the roto-screen (title screen) is very slow. But the created by Oren Bartal runs well. I have not pass this step. Do you actually access the game screen, playing few level??

Reply 3 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

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Edit your dosbox.conf file (inside DOSBox folder) and set core=dynamic and cycles=auto. That should get rid the game of almost all its speed troubles. This way, the game runs nicely.

Intel i7 5960X
Gigabye GA-X99-Gaming 5
8 GB DDR4 (2100)
8 GB GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming (Gigabyte)

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