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First post, by huldu

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I was wondering if someone else has experienced this "problem/issue":

When playing Pizza Tycoon the game runs perfectly fine *but* it has some weird... speed issues going on. For example if you enter a restaurant and click on "Animated Stats->Capacity" you'll see the red bars slowly draw on the screen. I thought that was normal(maybe it is) but something weird happened last night! All of the sudden the bars got drawn really fast and the day-pass went super fast. Game run just the same as before but the bar drawing and day-pass went so much faster. What happened?

It had nothing to do with emulation/cpu speed was, they were running on default. I've seen some videos on youtube running "fast" as well, when drawing the bars in "Animated Stats->Capacity". I just have no idea how to "enable" this feature... if someone knows please tell me how they do it!

Reply 1 of 3, by robertmo

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are you using dosbox?

Reply 2 of 3, by huldu

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Dosbox 0.74.

I found out what they're doing while experimenting myself. It's the cpu cycles. You have to start dosbox with the default value of 3k then bump it up to about 12k. From that point on the game runs quite fast, ie the graphs/daily loading. Game itself runs just as normal but those two things really speed up. Setting the value to 12-15k in dosbox config does nothing however. You have to bump it up from 3k or a low value from in the game or nothing seems to happen.

Reply 3 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

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[Thread moved to DOSBox Games/Apps. Section]

Have you tried using a fixed cycles count?