First post, by Sandi1987
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Any way to increase speed in 86Box? I can run Celeron 166, Pentium 166 at full speed in 86Box and Celeron 333 in PCem.
I installed AMNHLT but 86Box is still slow.
Reply 1 of 3, by mr.cat
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Not much. It's the raw processing power that is needed, so basically what helps is a beefier host.
If you can get by with an older cpu model in the guest, you could try that. I don't have any data to back it up, but I would think the older ones are less complex to emulate.
Also I don't know what AMNHLT is supposed to do...
Previously discussed here:
Emulation speed issues with 86box
Reply 2 of 3, by Jo22
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Hi! AmnHLT is a third-party VxD that issues a HLT (halt) instruction to the CPU whenever Windows 9x is idle.
It's meant to avoid a 100% processor usage in VMs - and emulators.
HLT is supported by late 486 processors and higher.
Re: 86box produces farting noises and lags on an i7 PC
http://www.benchtest.com/amnhlt.html
For Windows 3.1, there's also one, WQGHLT. 😀
Unfortunately, it works in 386 Enhanced-Mode only (Standard Mode does not load VxDs/386 drivers)..
http://win16.info/
https://www.scampers.org/steve/vmware/
Lastly, for DOS, there's DOSIDLE.
https://maribu.home.xs4all.nl/zeurkous/downlo … or/dosidle.html
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Reply 3 of 3, by Battler
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You just need to go to Settings and choose an emulated machine that's ACPI-capable. On PCem, that's going to be that lonely Gigabyte with 440BX and the one VIA Super Socket 7 machine, but on 86Box, you have a wider selection of machines with ACPI, including for Pentium, eg. the NuPro with 430TX.