You know what guys, I think it's my computer that's making Descent run so slowly anyway. I shouldn't have wasted anyone's time. I have never managed to fix a single problem on this computer. I have huge pings on internet games, even some of the least demanding games run choppily, movies also run …

Wha...... I've changed core back to normal, and now I'm getting the same error message.

I edited config file to use dynamic core, and then when I tried to launch the game bat file in dosbox, it gave me this error message: "Error: Not enough strings in text file - expecting 621, found 0" And, I guess I have a soundcard, I'm just not sure what the hell it is. How can I find out?

I've set cycles=8500 and memsize=32, and I've tried setting detail to lowest and minimizing display size. The game runs a bit more smoothly than it did, but still unacceptably choppy. comp specs: P4m 2.20 GHz 256mb RAM Nvidia GeForce4 64mb Anyone know how I can improve its performance? Also, does …

system: Dell Inspiron 8500 Pentium 4-M 1.18 GHz 256MB of RAM 64MB Nvidia GeForce4 ...it's your basic laptop computer. Not like I built it or anything. I don't have DOSBox configured any differently than it is by default. I'm just running the batch file through DOSBox. Not much more I can say, I'm …

I've gotten System Shock to work on DOSBox 0.63, but it's really slow and choppy. This could be my computer, I have a slight overheating problem. But newer games aren't this choppy on my computer, so I think it's something else.