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vdmsound slowing games down ( drastically )

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First post, by krakout

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i manage to run old DOS games with vdmsound ( 2.0.4 + update applied ), but 70% of the time the games run much slower than they are supposed to run. examples are: prehistorik 2, ultima 8, gta, syndicate plus, etc...

on the 30%, the games run on perfect ( normal ) speed, but this time the sound slows down and is choppy&crappy. what must i do? anyone able to get vdmsound to work with its full capacity?

Reply 1 of 2, by vladr

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Many games kick in some timer code when sound is enabled, and Windows is very "approximate" with timer frequencies when it comes to DOS boxes. So not really something VDMSound can do anything about.

You can try SPEEDSET which was written to work around this in some games (not protected mode ones, though). Or use dosbox.

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Last edited by vladr on 2004-02-10, 02:35. Edited 1 time in total.
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