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First post, by Nat

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Hi everyone.
I've a tiny problem using the Dosbox. In every game I play, I've a little gap between the image and the sound. Is anyone know how to supress this gap ?
Thanks for your help.

Reply 1 of 12, by robertmo

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what is your dosbox version and where have you got it from?
what is your Operating System?
what are your PC specifications?
what games have problems?
post content of "DOSBox Status Window"
enclose your dosbox's config file

Reply 2 of 12, by Nat

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Dosbox version : 0.73 (I've download from the official website)
OS : Window Seven 32bits, but the same problem occurs on XP SP 2
PC specs : Intel Core 2 duo 2.38GHz, 3Go of RAM, nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
I've this problems on all the games I play : Archemidean Dynasty, Albion, The Settlers 2, Tyrian 2000, Jazz Jackrabbit, Syndicate wars, etc.

Content of DOSBox Status Window :

DOSBox version 0.73 Copyright 2002-2009 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config fi […]
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DOSBox version 0.73
Copyright 2002-2009 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
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CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Users\Nator\AppData\Local\DO
SBox\dosbox-0.73.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32
DOS keyboard layout loaded with main language code FR for layout fr

Reply 3 of 12, by robertmo

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try different output=
every rate= to 44100
blocksize=1024
fized cycles

Reply 4 of 12, by Nat

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Thanks for your help, it work perfectly fine now.

Reply 5 of 12, by robertmo

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try it one by one and tell us what helped

Reply 6 of 12, by Nat

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All rate=44100
Blocksize=1024

No need for the fixed cycles.

Reply 7 of 12, by robertmo

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both ? or just one of them or any of them?
have you changed output?

Reply 8 of 12, by Nat

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I haven't change the output. And for the rate, I've changed these ones :

[mixer]
rate
[sblaster]
oplrate
[gus]
gusrate
[speaker]
pcrate
tandyrate

With the blocksize changed to 1024.

Reply 9 of 12, by robertmo

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would it be enough to change only blocksize without changing rates
or
would it be enough to change only rates without changing blocksize?

Reply 10 of 12, by Nat

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No, I needed to change both. Maybe it's just my PC.

Reply 11 of 12, by Qbix

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thanks for testing it out.
44100 with 1024 is currently my favorite setup as well

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 12 of 12, by robertmo

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I remember when I was testing scrolling the title menu of "Vinyl Goddess from Mars" it also needed:
rate=44100
Blocksize=1024
to remove the delay.