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Help Speeding Up A Game (Super Street Fighter II Turbo)

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First post, by bigblockelectra

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Hello,

I have the PC version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo. It is a DOS CD game that was released sometime around 1995. I bought the game and have the original CD, not a bootleg. Gametek filed for bakruptcy in the late 90's, and offer no tech support on getting the game to run in windows xp.

I have
DosBox 0.65
Windows XP Professional
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz with
1gb of ddr266 memory
geforce 2 gts 32mb
soundblaster live

I used the guide to get the game to run properly. The game runs, but quite slowly. Everything is choppy except the music. The sounds, and animations are all choppy. Some of the sounds and the music is out-of-sync with the rest of the game. I tried to optimize the game with the overclocking feature, and I also did the frame-skip feature, to try to get 100% pc usage, but that didn't really solve the problem.

I think a lot of this can be contributed to my computer being old. Is there anything that I can do to make the game run a little bit smoother? I was looking on the other forums and I saw something about making a CD image. Would that be a good idea to get some extra speed, so the game doesn't have to run any DOS CD drivers? I am using a DVD-ROM drive to play the game, which is actually drive E:\> I don't know if that matters, but I use the command "mount e e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl to load the CD.

I don't know what all the game reads from the CD, but I do know that all of the background music is on the cd, just in .cda format. It is the type of cd that would play in a stereo. Can an image be made when the CD mainly reads just music?

Any ideas besides a computer update? I will do that sometime soon, but in the meantime, I would like to give this a try.

Reply 1 of 2, by Freddo

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Heh, lucky! That's pretty much the only game I want that I don't have. I look for it on Ebay now and then, but I never see it there. This only because I want the CD tracks, cause the songs are quite awesome compared to the original arcade/console songs. At least the 3 songs from the demo version I have are.

You could make the CD into a cue/bin image. I usually do it with all my DOS games, just so I don't need the CD in the drive to play, and to take backups of my old games. But I don't think it would help much with the performance in this case.

The main culprit here is your AMD Athlon 1.4ghz which is a bit too slow for the later DOS games. However, there is one thing you can do. Open up dosbox.conf (which is located where you installed DOSBox) with notepad and change "core=normal" into "core=dynamic". This way you should be able to raise the cycles more (CTRL+F12) and recive a smoother gaming experience.

Reply 2 of 2, by bigblockelectra

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The disk version is on eBay right now, but I don't know if it has all the music.

That's right, capcom remixed all the tracks when they released the Turbo version of Super Street Fighter II. They also added some new moves, and all of the super moves, and the Akuma character.

The songs are about 75megabytes.

I'll try this dynamic thing.

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