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Tie Fighter Problems

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First post, by Deemo

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Hey everyone
I recently discovered DOSbox, and i have made it a goal of mine to play all the old DOS games i played in my childhood. First and foremost for me is Tie Fighter.

I have managed (after lots of work) to finally get Tie Fighter running. All sounds, cinematics and controls work. Unforuntely, there is an unbearable lag. Its down to approximately 1.5 frames per second! I assume im doing something wrong. I tried searching this forum, but to no avail, so please point me in the right direction

System Specs
AMD Athlon 2200+
Integrated GeForce 4 MX
256 mb RAM

Thanks in advance

Reply 1 of 6, by `Moe`

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There's lots of information available about speed and performance. Read the various guides on that topic. But your box may simply be too slow. Since you don't tell how you configured DOSBox, I can't tell you if there's something you can do.

Reply 2 of 6, by Deemo

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I tested some of the tweaks from the guides forum. Its still extremely laggy

I use D-Fend as a frontend to dosbox, so i will be including screenshots of the config screens. if im missing one, or something should be changed, let me know
my dosbox.conf is still at the default. D-Fend does the whole profile thing for it

Also, i have a 2.2 Ghz processor with 256 RAM. Im pretty sure it can run a game from 1994

Reply 3 of 6, by rcblanke

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Hi Deemo,

Did you try increasing the number of cycles (last screenshot)? I'm running 10.000 cycles easily on my Pentium M 1.6 Mhz...

Regards,
Ronald

Reply 4 of 6, by HunterZ

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There's no way that Tie Fighter will run fast with those settings. Switch CPU Core to dynamic and try cycles settings between 10000 and 30000.

Reply 5 of 6, by Deemo

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ah that fixed it! thanks alot!

for future reference: what does the cycle value mean exactly?

and thanks again !

Reply 6 of 6, by Lofty

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It's how many instructions dosbox tries to emulate per millisecond - basically, the speed of the emulated CPU.