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First post, by ever

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On a core i3 330um?

Notice that bold letter "u". It means its an ultra low voltage chip for an ultra-portable laptop I plan on getting.

I'm worried about the clockspeed which is only 1.2 Ghz and there is no turbo boost.

I understand that some people have had success running games such as descent and duke3d on netbooks at reasonable frame rates.

According to this website:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processor … ist.2436.0.html
This chip is more powerful than the latest atoms, despite the slower clock.

Could I expect reasonable performance playing lets say duke3D or TIE fighter? If so what about more intensive games such as strike force centauri or realms of the haunting at 640*480? If not what about less demanding games such as Ultima VII or X-com?

Reply 2 of 4, by DosFreak

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Descent and Duke3D have ports so you are better off using those.

Games with static screens should run fine.

Any 3D games would probably be slow at 640x+ if so then drop to a lower resolution.

No one can give you definte answers since most people on these forums that use DOSBox run them on laptops\desktops with normal processors.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Serious Callers Only

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Use dos32a when you can (replaces most dos extenders by a much faster one).
Notice that there are many games that use these extenders but don't advertise the fact - except maybe when run there is something saying dos4gw or something - the extender is embedded in the exe of the game, you can replace it anyway.

Games where this helps: any complex late dos game that didn't do it's own extender, typically had one of the standard ones: azrael's tear for instance. Many others.