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12-12-2006 09:30 AM
Morrin Here is a good guide how to make build games to work in XP enviroment (Blood, Duke Nukem, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior). I have only tried it with Blood and it works excellently.
08-12-2006 07:21 AM
Data use the next version of DOSBox.
I've played it in there succesfully.
You should check the dosbox forum (development forum) on cvs builds if you are interrested.
08-12-2006 12:17 AM
Carcaroth Someone has succeeded in making The Horde work with DosBox? What is the secret?
26-05-2006 07:36 PM
BeefontheBone I can help with Tyrian - go into its settings in-game and turn the detail level down from Pentium to the next highest - it chugs horribly in DOSBox on Pentium settings (since it emulates a fast 486) but should be ok on the other settings.
26-05-2006 01:38 PM
The Fifth Horseman AFAIK, D-Fend can sometimes cause problems.
26-05-2006 12:27 AM
catchaserguns Try D-Fend with dosbox. its at the dosbox web site and it saves a lot of headaches
18-05-2006 05:00 PM
Dopopopalis ok, im runing on Windows XP Professional with a Pentium 4 2.4 ghz CPU and 512 mb of ram.

also, I think I will try out VDM sound to see if that works.

and as for what I entered into the command line I have tryed it several ways, i have tryed to launch the games by actually navigating through it and launching the exe.
I have also tryed the thing where you drag the exe for the game onto the exe for DOSbox.

and finaly there are no error messages whatsoever, DOSbox either quits
responding and turns black, or it imediately crashes.
18-05-2006 11:42 AM
The Fifth Horseman The details, you say? Right. Didn't think of that.
18-05-2006 10:21 AM
Data Fifth: I finished the first 2 episodes on it on 12000 cycles. It was only slow when the screen turned black.
Don't set the detail level too high. (no pentium graphics)

But maybe my memory is flawed although I play tyrian and tyrian 2k quite often on this pc.
18-05-2006 10:13 AM
The Fifth Horseman What are your system specs in the first place?
DosBox is quite heavy on raw CPU power needed, and several of the games you have listed (Abuse, X-Com 3 and Tyrian to be specific) needed quite fast machines, approximately 70 mHz and faster (if I remember right).

Data, I tried running T2K at 10000 cycles and even slightly higher myself. No go, it's still lagging.

You might try a few tricks:
1. Dynamic core in DosBox. This doubles the top limit of cycles your machine can handle, but DosBox itself becomes less stable when doing so.
2. VDMSound. This emulates much smaller portions of old hardware then DosBox and thus runs much faster (my machine ran it with X-Com Apocalypse... the resulting speed was completely normal, while in DosBox with frameskip 1 and maximum cycle setting it still lagged)
3. Bootdisk. There is a DOS bootdisk image for download from Abandonia, you might well try using that. That is, if your computer still has a floppy drive...
4. This is a kind of last resort, really, but... building a dedicated DOS rig is still an option. I did it myself and am quite satisfied with the results. No problems with cycles, nearly no problems with compatiblity too... except it might take a fair amount of work to fine-tune such a machine for DOS gaming.
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