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First post, by Bloody Carnage

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Is this an issue with DOSBox? Carmageddon DOS won't run in high-res, no matter what I do. I always get a "Bad command or filename" and then it goes to the low-res mode.

Reply 1 of 8, by wd

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Reinstall the game within dosbox.

Reply 2 of 8, by ChristopherGiusti

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Uhh hmm I'm not the person that posted the topic, but I've installed Carmageddon (1) through DOSBOX and it worked! However... it runs extremely choppy... is there a way to fix that? (Sorry for asking a question that has probably been asked 100 times)

-Christopher

Reply 3 of 8, by wd

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Nope unless you're using an old dosbox version, a non-x86 system or
screwed up something otherwise. carmageddon is simply a very demanding
game as is.

Reply 4 of 8, by ChristopherGiusti

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-Unless-...? So 🤣 it CAN be run faster or?.. What steps would I have to do to have it run smoothly? I'd be willing to try anything.. my CD seems to work flawlessly. Isn't DOSBox supposed to emulate the old DOS system? I mean... I remember playing this game back in the day on a 512mb RAM, Pentium 2 CPU and it ran perfectly then 🙁 hmm I guess bit torrenting TDR2000 is my best option these days... but there's just nothing like the original.... you know? That's why I came here... or rather, to DOSBox. I've tried a couple methods listed but they don't seem to work so I was just wondering if there's some known way to increase the fps from 1 to something more..?

-Christopher

Reply 5 of 8, by wd

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it CAN be run faster or?

If you're using dosbox 0.65 it WILL run faster on 0.72.

Reply 6 of 8, by ChristopherGiusti

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uhh.. sorry you just confused me it will run faster on 0.65 or 0.72? I'm running it through 0.72 and it's like 1 fps... (well I'm not really running it because it's 1 fps >.< 🤣... it's not fun at all)

-Christopher

Reply 8 of 8, by Snover

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I believe what you were going for is "don't pirate software", since Steam-released games are downloaded off the Internet and certainly aren't free 😉

And yes, I am being dumb and abusing my ability to respond to closed threads to veer off topic. Sorry! 😀

Yes, it’s my fault.