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First post, by D131

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I have a few problems with DOSbox memory sizes. Some games that I would like to play with DOSbox are snail-like slow, so I thought that adding some memory -within- DOSbox could speed things up. My guess is that I should add conventional OR extended OR expanded memory. The question is how do I do that? I searched thru the FAQ etc and found nothing (or I'm just blind)
I run a Pentium 4 (3ghz), 1gb ram, with Windows XP SP2. (if that's any use)

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

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you'd better try increasing the cpu cycles with ctrl-f12

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Reply 2 of 7, by D131

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uh.. that sped up some of the games.. but for example x-com apocalypse still complains about memory issues. "Not enough memory to run X-COM: Apocalpyse" and the game is dos-based.. and sorry, I didn't notice that ctrl-f12 thing before when starting dosbox.. =)

Reply 3 of 7, by Qbix

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well dosbox comes with configuration file. called dosbox.conf
it's in the startmenu somewhere.

take a look it has the memory size as well.

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Reply 5 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

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dosbox.conf is a text-file. You can edit it using NOTEPAD, for instance.

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Reply 6 of 7, by D131

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el_pusher,
yes, I know that ;>

well, ufo3 doesn't still work... but other games do. now the game just freezes when it starts up. guess I'm not playing ufo3 then ;/

Reply 7 of 7, by Qbix

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ufo 3 is a problem game 😀
I recently fixed the cdrom detection. So you might have better luck in the next version

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