VOGONS


First post, by Dancso

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Hi,

Oops, i wanted to post this in the DOS section. sorry.

I've been trying to play games which use the doom engine, Heretic, Hexen, Amulets & armor, and doom itself. But i have a problem, which is when i get hurt, or pick something up, which means a flash on the screen, i get lag for a second, and the screen gets colored funky.

This only happens in fullscreen though.

I have set the music to general midi, and the sounds to sound blaster, etc etc, sounds are working well, but this lag when something makes the screen flash annoyes me a lot.

I've tried setting the memory higher in the config file, to 512, and 1024, also 64. but it always said it got set to 63 in the console. Neither worked.
(Cycles are set to max)

Here's my comp:
Processor: AMD Athlon 4000+ 64 2x
NVidia GeForce 7600 GS 256 mb
1GB DDR2 ram

I have no idea what's wrong and i'm unable to play these kind of games like this.

Any ideas?

Reply 2 of 5, by leileilol

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Dancso wrote:

NVidia GeForce 7600 GS 256 mb

this is your problem. Nvidia cards suck at palettes. So in that case crack open your dosbox.conf file and change output to anything else that isn't surface.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Dancso

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I meant single player lag.
Also, yay! Changing output seemed to fix it! Thanks a lot! 😀

Reply 4 of 5, by v0g0ns

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What setting did you use instead of surface? And does someone know if this problem with nvidia cards is also present with modern games like ut2k4?

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Reply 5 of 5, by Dancso

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I chose opengl.