First post, by bigbangnet
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- Newbie
Problem: I will go straight to the fact. When I run dos games using dosbox the game starts to slow down...in some cases it stops. My pc is not freezing or hangsup. I need to "terminate" dosbox in order to regain control of dosbox 🤣.
The only exception to this is if I play doom 2 multiplayer. Also to note, if I play all those games in single player then ALL the games runs fine. This is the weird part.
Facts and info: I got an AMD quad core cpu with 4g of ram. I got a 1 terabyte HD with an audigy sound card. My bomb can run the latest games. So I don't think the hardware is not the problem. On the dosbox side, I can run redneck rampage and it's not stuttering, freezing, lagging ... no problem at all. I'm also using Windows 7 and my victim (test dummy, fresh meat, victim) has windows xp. We both got IPX installed... yup, my Windows 7 64bit got it too. and were using dosbox 0.74.
I started the ipx server on my side and he connected to me using my public IP address. Oddly enough, hamachi ip didn't work ???
When I play doom 2 with him on ipx then the game runs... a bit slow like the network bandwith was not enough but it's running. We tried Rise of the triad and that's where the game stopped working. The only image I could give you is if you tried to run doom 2 with 100 cycles in dosbox.conf...vveeeeerrrrryy slow.
What's going on ? Did I miss something ?
P.s: heres my dosbox.conf code...if that helps:
[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
output=surface
autolock=true
sensitivity=300
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
usescancodes=true
[dosbox]
language=
machine=svga_s3
captures=capture
memsize=31
[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x
[cpu]
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=auto
cycleup=10
cycledown=20
[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=1024
prebuffer=20
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100
[gus]
gus=false
gusrate=44100
gusbase=240
gusirq=5
gusdma=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=44100
tandy=auto
tandyrate=44100
disney=true
[joystick]
joysticktype=auto
timed=true
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false
[serial]
serial1=dummy
serial2=dummy
serial3=modem
serial4=directserial
[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout=auto
[ipx]
ipx=true
[autoexec]
mount c g:\dosgame
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
c:
ipxnet startserver