Frameskipping? You should start by writing down everything you did trying to make it work.

You should hold off on playing Shadow Warrior until Jonof releases the next ver of his port. You can play it with the port now but it's kind of buggy as a first release of anything usually is.

I had the same problem until I used D-Fend to set the game up. I'm only a dosbox users for a few days and I haven't had time to find all the options, so a frontend like this is very helpfull. I don't know anything about shadow warrior, but flashback is one of my all-time favorites and I just HAD to make it work.

As far as I can see, the problem solved itself when I set opl mode to opl3, however when I changed it back to auto, the game still runs well. Setting either Sample Rate or Opl rate to 44100 causes big speed problems. Here are the settings I have now (which runs the game perfectly, no need to overclock or framskip). I'll skip the ones I think are irrelevant.

Profile Settings: no loadfix
General: Start fullscreen, Use doublebuffer, Render surface, 640x480, normal2x, hardwarescaling 1.00
Enviroment: 16MB, XMS+EMS, cpu 3000, up 500 Down 20, normal cpu core, no frameskip, VGA video card
Communication: No modem
Priority: Normal
Sound:

Sample Rate 22050, Blocksize 2048, Prebuffer 10

SB16, 220,IRQ7,DMA1,HDMA5,opl auto, opl rate 22050, use mixer
GUS: Disabled
MIDI: MPU-401 disabled
Misc: Enable PC Speaker (or it doesn't start), PC Speaker rate 22050, Tandy rate 22050, Disable Disney sound source

Ofcourse, these are all D-Fend settings, I have no idea what the default settings of dosbox are for all these things.

Finally to complete things, my specs:

Windows XP SP 2, P4 2.8 GHz, 1GB Memory, Sb Live Platinum, NVidia FX 5600.

DosFreak wrote:

You should hold off on playing Shadow Warrior until Jonof releases the next ver of his port. You can play it with the port now but it's kind of buggy as a first release of anything usually is.

If you play without polymost and forget about the mouse movement (its a bit buggy) for now the game is entirely playable at great speeds. 😎

hello has anyone been able to fix the problem in flashback quest for identity game running too slow. have tried to all sorts of thing even whats suggested but to no avail. i found sometimes it runs normal and ohter times it runs really slow with the sound tried all sorts of configurations. I have the 0.63 version of dos box

For Build games:
http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/

Nice link. Bookmarked it for future reference. 😎

I remember having the slow problems in Flashback but then eventually getting it to work fine. I don't remember what fixed it:
- Try a CVS build (see the development forum)
- Try using different DOSBox core settings
- Make sure you're using the right IRQ setting for the sound

It could be that I now have an MT-32 and that I use that for the music instead of Adlib.