Is their a mission skip cheat because you may have a corrupted file. You might have to use a mission skip cheat to avoid the crash.

Ugh. There must be some other way.

I've captured the error message the game produces when it crashes. What a pity Origin was't more clear about what is making the game crash.

As I said, I don't think it's DOSBox related. For some reason the game worked fine on 486 CPUs, but when I upgraded to a P166 I also started observing these crashes. The game did crash less on previous DOSBox versions, but with the performance improvement of the last version the problem has resurfaced. Can it be Pentium-related?

Well i have never heard of this strike commander before but have you tried all of the cores. Tried going on the mission with different cycles. You may have to use an earlier version of dosbox.

You can download 0.63 and 0.65 still. You are unable to download the versions before 0.63 and yet bio menace runs best on dosbox 0.58.

I'd rather point out the issue so it can get fixed, but thank you anyway.

bio menace runs best on dosbox 0.58

Oh that runs fine in 0.70.

If the problem with strike commander is with the speed itself,
just see if it works when reducing the cycles (either fixed cycles
or cycles=max 50% or something).

OK, I'll try at different cycles. Meanwhile it would be great if somebody could decypher the error code or see if it has happened to other people as well.

Alright, checked. The game seems stable enough with dynamic core and 25,000 cycles.

Thank you. could you try to run the game with the highest possible cycle count that your pc can handle without using max or auto ?
I would like to know if the varying of cycles (auto and max) makes the game crash or the speed.

That's difficult to say. When I play with both cycle and core set at "auto" the game hangs in-game every two missions or so. Now I've tried how fast can really run "Strike Commander" in my system, and while menus and videos stutter at 50,000 cycles (dynamic core) in-game allows far more exagerate cycles rates:

I didn't even know DOSBox could run at that speed, honestly. I should say that even when the DOSBox window says "Max" the game is actually running slower than in the screenshot. With these settings the game is completely unplayable, it runs way too fast.

but does it crash (maybe when you run it comparable to the speed of the max setting ) ?

I can't tell. The crash occurs when I play two or more missions, and I can't even play at that speed.

I've gotten the game working great and captured most of the cinematics up to the Alasa missions: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0721E2CE0D28FF4D.

I use 15k-25k cycles, the low for the cine's and high for in game. EMS/XMS/UMB all set to true.

Game works like a champ!

Linked the period for some reason..

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0721E2CE0D28FF4D

I've finished the main game, and I'm about to finish the "Tactical Operations" data disk, and yes, it rocks, specially with the latest DOSBox.

Btw. you can edit your own postings.