Re: timing problems with freddy pharkas?

Posted on 2008-08-07, 13:03

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minimax, i was refering to the cycle rate dosbox displays when i set cycles to auto... like i said in my original post i tried numerous settings for cycles and core already. (i had them set even lower, to 5000 if i remember correctly) on an unrelated side note: there seems to be a bug in the latest …

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Re: timing problems with freddy pharkas?

Posted on 2008-08-06, 19:36

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thanks for your replies, i appreciate it. i'm afraid my problem isn't solved by setting core and cycles manually...i had the same problem with FP some time ago and tried a lot of different settings. (also in 0.72) also, the game is actually running pretty slow with my current settings. dosbox …

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timing problems with freddy pharkas?

Posted on 2008-08-03, 13:19

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hi! i'm having a little problem with freddy pharkas. it seems that the "ingame time" is running too fast, which makes timed puzzles like the "horse flatulence" thing a little difficult. i already know how to solve the horse puzzle so i was basically pretty quick in collecting the stuff i needed. …

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rex nebular / dragonsphere crashing/hanging trouble

Posted on 2008-02-02, 19:03

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hi everyone, i did a search for this and didn't find any thread about this problem i'm having: when playing rex nebular or dragonsphere in dosbox (0.72 or CVS) the games crash or "hang" randomly (mostly when exiting a "room" i think). when this happens i need to quit dosbox by terminating the …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-19, 13:47

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hm, yes it should... well i used sb16 but when i started it today it had the same distortions. did you install the discworld 2 patch by any chance? because i installed it before starting it again. either it's got something to do with that or i was just lucky the first time around. lowering the …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-18, 13:42

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jiri, yup that's the kind of distortion i remember (sounds pretty much like the one i get in normality when using ultrasound). did you use my config? what's your system? maybe it's a performance thingy... dh4rm4, yeah, with internet a lot of things would have been different back then:)

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-18, 12:12

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i just "tested" discworld II for about 2 hours:) didn't have even one little distortion using soundblaster emulation. but i do remember having some when i tested it some time ago...maybe it's something i changed in the config. only tested gus for a couple of minutes...seemed to work fine though. …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-18, 09:30

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dh4rm4, have you ever tried "riddle of master lu" with ultrasound? because i get this strange delay in the sound and speech when using gus...however with sb emulation everythings fine. would be interesting to know if it's an emulation problem or "normal gus behavior". (i had an ultrasound max back …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-17, 23:40

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whoops...sorry i was talking about discworld 1. can't remember any noticable distortion in discworld 2 with sb emulation...

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-17, 19:57

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dh4rm4, i think i didn't have the pro patches installed when i tested it (reinstalled the drivers at some point)... Jiri, hm, very interesting... well those mild distortions/crackling in discworld are also there when using sb emulation...so i think that's probably not related to the ultrasound …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-17, 08:51

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well, what do you know. i DO get something like music now in normality...not entirely sure if it sounds the way it should though. it sounds 100% better with general midi. almost seems as if there's instruments missing. sound still crackling though p.s. kind of strange that the ultrasound driver puts …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-17, 07:55

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hmmm...i don't seem to have the ultrinit.sys in my ultrasnd directory. but it's a fresh install of the drivers. strange... this is what the ultrasound tries to put in the autoexec: SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,7,7 SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND SET BLASTER=A240 I7 D1 T1 C:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.EXE -dj guess it can't …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-16, 21:30

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@Jiri yeah, i thought so...guess it's a bug in dosbox? anyway i'm glad to see i'm not the only one with this problem. here's hoping for a fix someday. btw. i managed to get megaem to run using qemm...however that produced more problems than it solved 😀 thanks for all your replies!

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-16, 20:45

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thanks again wd...i'll see if it works

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-16, 20:31

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@dh4rm4 thanks a lot! is it actually possible to load emm386 in dosbox? if so...how? there's no config.sys being loaded...so where would i load the drivers? guess i'd also need to load himem.sys? @wd thanks, i'll give it a try edit: wd, i tried all of your suggestions but unfortunatelly nothing …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-16, 18:45

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well i'm not into demos but i still wouldn't wanna set the sample rate all the way down to 11025 even for games:) especially because, like alvaro84 said, it would probably also affect the quality of the midi playback of the ultrasound...and that's the real benefit of this card after all (otherwise i …

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Re: Full screen configuration

Posted on 2007-06-16, 18:17

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did you try to adjust the cycles in your dosbox.conf? depending on your hardware i would suggest you try the following settings: frameskip=0 core=dynamic cycles=max if this doesn't work or the game runs too fast try setting the cycles manually like this cycles=5000 you can adjust the cycles of …

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Re: ultrasound trouble. people experienced with gus please read!

Posted on 2007-06-16, 15:51

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thanks for the reply Tabris:DarkPeace, as i wrote in my second post the blocksize and prebuffer settings are set to what i found working best for me when using soundblaster emulation. i played around with them for some time and i found that setting the blocksize as low as possible enables me to …

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Re: Full screen configuration

Posted on 2007-06-16, 14:39

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you have to modify the file "dosbox.conf", which is the config file for dosbox. there should be a shortcut to it in your start menu (assuming you're running windows). if there isn't look for it in your dosbox directory. open it. assuming you're running the latest version of dosbox, these are the …

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Re: ultrasound in dosbox horrible quality?

Posted on 2007-06-16, 10:10

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P.S. scratch that about new creative drivers...they were for a different x-fi. my mistake :blush: ..., you probably should've chosen a more descriptive and neutral subject for your post, like "Ultrasound problems" or something similar. Besides, the subject is not correct, because your problem is not …

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