First post, by littbarski
Hello,
we really enjoy playing the old DOS games in the family, like Chaos Engine but also Jump'n Run like the Kellogg's game or Eismann's or Nesquik.
Most of the time we used the overlay or openglnb options, but always there was a bit of image stuttering. I just discovered that with the ddraw option and double buffering the scrolling is really smooth for the first time since we use DOSBox.
Only problem now: the sound is stuttering 😀. I see that this is related to CPU speed, the double buffering and the PC that I am using. On one laptop it's better than on another laptop. The frameskip does help for the sound and the image stuttering is back then... Same is true for the overlay and opengl options as we had used them until now. I would like to stay at ddraw.
Is there any hidden hint for me in the DOSBox or perhaps a fork just for scrolling games on low end hardware?
I understand that the hardware is important, but for old DOS games even with emulating and so on? I tested all CPU options of DOSBox already.
So my hope is just that someone also loves the smooth scrolling of the ddraw double buffering and solved the sound issue perhaps.
Thank you
littbarski