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Question about speeding up dosbox

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First post, by Question

Posted on 2010-03-26, 21:49

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I understand that you can press ctrl+f12 to increase CPU cycles.

My question is why isnt there a better way of doing this?

For example pressing it once only increases by like 5k cycles?

For games that run EXTREMELY slowly under dosbox, you would need to spam it dozens and dozens of times to get it to work properly.

Why not change it so that holding ctrl+f12 increases the cpu cycle constantly till you stop holding it down? Or allow us to edit a config file so that dosbox starts out at the same CPU cycle everytime? Rather than spamming ctlr+f12 100+ times everytime you want to play an old dos game....

Reply 1 of 9, by wd

Posted on 2010-03-26, 22:04

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-> dosbox config file

Reply 2 of 9, by robertmo

Posted on 2010-03-27, 06:36

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Question wrote:

Or allow us to edit a config file

You have my allowance.

Reply 3 of 9, by Question

Posted on 2010-03-27, 14:07

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-> dosbox config file

I dont know what you are trying to say here.

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According to the guide the only way to increase the cycles is to press CTRL+F12 currently unless a feature was added later on.

And oddly enough there is no dosbox.conf file in my dosbox folder....

Reply 4 of 9, by wd

Posted on 2010-03-27, 14:15

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And oddly enough there is no dosbox.conf file in my dosbox folder....

Then post what dosbox version you are using, what OS, everything else that
matters which you omitted, and then why you don't use the links that are put
into your program menu to configure dosbox.

Reply 5 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2010-03-27, 14:24

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And oddly enough there is no dosbox.conf file in my dosbox folder....

Nothing odd about it. Modified files go in the profile, not in program files.

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Reply 6 of 9, by Question

Posted on 2010-03-28, 17:55

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Right, found the dosbox config file. Simple enough.

Why not update the guide to include editing the config file as another method of changing speed?

Reply 7 of 9, by Freddo

Posted on 2010-03-28, 18:41

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Question wrote:
Why not update the guide to include editing the config file as another method of changing speed?

It's already mentioned in the readme.txt file that comes with DOSBox, below the "Q: I would like to change the memory size/cpu speed/ems/soundblaster IRQ" part.

But I guess you didn't read the readme file, did you?

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Posted on 2010-04-01, 17:24

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And i guess you didnt update the forum guide, did you?

Reply 9 of 9, by wd

Posted on 2010-04-01, 18:15

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