system specs.

pentium 4 3.00ghz with hyper threading (single core)
asus p5ld2 standard motherboard
2 gig ddr2 ram
200 gig sata2 hdd
cd rom (drive 1)
dvd burner (drive 2)
Soundblaster x-fi xtreme music sound card
nvidia geforce 6600gt 128mb pcie (jetway)
windows xp home sp2 with latest patches and updates.
latest drivers for everything and the latest direct x 9.0c
nvidia 91.31 beta. (updated today)

i have overclocked my video card...
- 3d core clock = 520mhz (500mhz)
- 2d core clock = 300mhz (300mhz)
- memory clock = 1140mhz (1000mhz) [can go up to 1190mhz but i see no diff.]

What is this thread about now?

same thing... i think were just proving that number of cpu's doesnt = speed in dosbox.

avatar_58, no i'm not running anything like an antivirus in the background.

system 1: runs Fedora Core 5
system 2: runs Windows Server 2003 64bit
system 3: runs Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP Pro

Try option 6 to see if that remedies your problem.

Well, the idea here is to remove any sort of sound-related options like the pre-buffer. Sound should just work as it does in every other application or game.

So... option 6 doesn't fix your problem?

your option is to run some patched version of dosbox that contains a bunch of stuff for graphics improvement, i'd guess it would be helpful for someone who has maxed out his cpu and thus gets audio stutters.

this isn't the issue here, i've got billions of processing power to spare.

instead the issue here is why we really need these sound options when no other application or game needs them.

Trying that version of Dosbox doesn't hurt and it might fix your problem. That should actually go hand in hand with option 3 and setting cycles to auto.

instead the issue here is why we really need these sound options when no other application or game needs them.

I don't get that. The option is there so people like you can try fix their problem. It's one of the things you don't need to set unless you want to fix something and you can leave out of your conf file and let Dosbox assume the default.

You're not reading carefully; there's also a patch that fixes autocycling which gets rid of lag.