Define sufficient?

Blood plays fine on most PC's in DosBox @320x240 or at resolutions below 640x480.

I assume you want 640x480+ with good sound quality as well? Why not just play it in 32bit Windows XP NTVDM?

Hello,

I have an athlon xp 3200 with radeon 9800 at the moment and the performance is poor. A real slideshow. That's at 320x200 with all manner of experimentation using the cpu cycle adjustments and dynamic core.

I am also running win2k.

Use dosbox 0.65, set core=dynamic and cycles=auto. Maybe changing the
output= in dosbox.conf to something else helps.

running blood 1 with VDMS is not realy a good solution. i had some bad slowdowns with the second episode (after the train crashes).

ok i dont know if this helps, but blood 1 is playable on my Athlon FX 55 @ 2800 MHz using 320x400 with highest sound settings. (dosbox 0.65, core=dynamic, cycle=auto) 😉

That system is a fair amount more powerful than the one I plan to get.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, but it's still a totally unplayable slideshow. Even with sound off, it's not something I'd play due to the framerate being so low.

I'll just get the new system and see how I go.

yup, please report back when you have your new CPU. these high sound settings are not realy necesssary and eats much CPU power.
iam very interested on seeing how dualcore CPUs handle such games with dosbox.

i was under the impression that this emulator only uses 1 core at any time.

yes you're right forget my last sentence. i was just dreaming of a perfect dosbox wich has dualcore optimisations... 🙄

Keep dreaming.

The new system runs the game far, far FAR better than before. Full screen at what appears to be 15fps ?

That's a massive improvement, anyway. I suspect that in 4-5 years I'll be able to run it at 60fps and more..(with whatever's out at that time)

Thanks everyone!