First post, by guest
Hey all! I recently downloaded DosBOX and was having trouble getting it to run quickly. By accident, I ran across a neat solution. If you are running an NT based version of Windows (Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP), you can make a program run with a higher priority. To do so, you need to edit the command line. I created a .bat file that looked like this:
@echo off
START /HIGH dosbox.exe dosbox.conf %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
The start command runs a program, and the /HIGH tag tells Windows to assign a higher priority to your program. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what the % things do, but they seem to work great 😉 . I found this tip at http://fox2k.net/2ktweaks/game_tuning_guide.htm. My processor is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, and I was unable to run Dark Forces at a reasonable rate in DosBOX until I tried this. Afterwards, it ran great. I just thought I'd share this tip with everyone. I haven't experimented with it too much, but I'll warn you that it can cause some stability problems (although that's mostly if you change the word HIGH to REALTIME).