try:

glide=emu
voodoo=opengl
output=opengl

The best fps you may get in wrapper mode glide=true. You need glide wrapper like nglide to use it. In software mode fps may be low on modern CPUs.

Yes, back then in 2006 you used the glide wrapper. These days you haveby default the built in voodoo emulation in daum builds... And that is costly.

I think that Tomb Raider does not run with Wrapper because of the static linked exe?

Btw, the last daum version from 2015 is broken here... it did not use the wrapper, even if set glide to true.

Dominus wrote:

These days you haveby default the built in voodoo emulation in daum builds... And that is costly.

Thanks for the info. That certainly explains the issues I'm having. 😉
But it's a shame, really, that I get only 10% performance with the latest 2015 build compared to a build from 2006, which was based on Dosbox 0.65, IIRC. 3dfx/Glide used to speed Dosbox up, whereas now, it slows everything down to a crawl. 😕
Is there no way to use an old Glide wrapper? Or will I simply have to scan the internet for a 2006 Daum build?

Look for the 2014 build of daum. The 2015 is broken in multiple ways.

And don't use glide=emu, this is likely the slower all software glide emulation.

This is so weird... I've tried Dosbox-G, and it works - great performance (which is good news 😀 ). But the Daum builds seem to be fundamentally flawed. Even if I copy the Daum dosbox.exe into the Dosbox-G directory, so it's using the same files, it's still terribly slow. Damn, I'd really like to have access to the menu bar of the Daum builds, but one cannot have everything, right? 😉

Some curious things I've noticed:

Dosbox-G exe:
- 3dfx only works with glide=emu
- 3dfx splash screen is choppy, while
- Game menu and the game itself are running smooth as silk

Daum exe:
- 3dfx also works with glide=true, but only in its own install directory; when executed in the Dosbox-G dir, only glide=emu works
- 3dfx splash screen is super smooth, but
- game menu and the game itself are choppy as hell.

Ah well, I'll use Dosbox-G for now, too much bother trying to figure out what's broken in ykhwong's builds. Thanks for your help!

Sammy wrote:

I think that Tomb Raider does not run with Wrapper because of the static linked exe?

No, as Tomb Raider exists in nglide support list

Xelasarg wrote:

I'd really like to have access to the menu bar of the Daum builds

You may try to use nglide, the last 2014 version of Daum build, its configuration file and correct settings to activate the wrapper.

Tomb Raider have two 3dfx executables. One (1114 kB) is statically linked, the other (874 kB) uses glide2x.ovl.
To use a wrapper (glide=true) you must use the second one.

Try daum build from Jan 2014.
There should glide=true work. (uses wrapper)

copy the glide2x.ovl from the dosbox dir to the tomb-raider directory (where the 3dfx-tomb.exe is)
and delete glide2x.dll from dosbox directory.

Oh man, I finally figured it out...
I was using output=ddraw and direct3d (both are incredibly slow in Daum), because opengl didn't work. But as it turns out, I had windowresolution set to custom size (1280x960), which breaks Glide along with opengl. Now, with windowresolution=original and output=opengl, I got the following result:

(To be honest, 760.000 is a show-off value, in the menu, I even reached >1.000.000 cycles.
In open spaces filled with enemies, this value drops to 120.000, but that's terrific nonetheless 😁 ).

All the time, I thought my issue couldn't be output related, because Dosbox-G was running fast no matter which video system I chose. I was using ddraw and direct3d parameters for both Daum and Dosbox-G, and opengl wasn't working for me in Daum. The only one I didn't try was surface, because I never use it (no scalers etc).
But as it turns out (by taking a closer look at the console window), ddraw and direct3d are actually deactivated in Dosbox-G, and it switches to openglnb automatically if direct3d or ddraw are selected in dosbox.conf. When I set output=surface, both Daum and Dosbox-G run slow. Holy mother of crap... 😉

Anyway, thanks for all your help, guys! 😀