I have two pc's the first is a new one and fast and the sec. is old (pIII 800).
In the first all runs OK.
but in the old one the DosBox use the cpu over 95% - this thing make my pc two slow and i can't even run the DosBox in a proper way.
what i need to change?
Tanx a lot.
HoZi 😎
Download a CVS build of DosBox from my signature below and report back.
Use either ykhwon'g or gulikoza's.
1. Download CVS build (these are newer and better optimised).
2. Set core=dynamic in dosbox.conf (warning: this will make a few games not work)
3. Increase frameskp in dosbox.conf or use ctrl F8 (*) if still too slow.
4. Increase cycles in dosbox.conf or use ctrl F12 until cpu is at around 90%
Cycles and frameskip tend to need tweaking for each game for optimum performance.
* - ykhwong's build seems to have a bug where ctrl F8 doesn't increase frameskip.
A P3-800 is going to struggle with many games after '93-'94 whatever you do.
Didn`t happen to install SP2 recently did you? If so it has NOTHING to do with dosbox.
Go into task manager and end "Explorer.exe" from the processes list, sounds crazy I know but it is the root of your problem and you`ll only ever have to do that once. Every time you start your computer from then on it`ll run fine.
Two stones, two crosses, the rest is just icing. - 7th Guest
Thank you, lofty.
I fixed the bug (ctrl-f7/f8 doesn't decrease or increase frameskip).
The bug was from the vsync patch.
