| 26-09-2008 09:36 PM | ||
| The Fifth Horseman |
Or just take into account a few facts: 1. You can use [autoexec] section of the config files to do mount directories automatically, switch to different drive letters AND run programs. 2. You can declare multiple config files by editing the DOSBox shortcut. 3. DOSBox supports incremental shortcuts - so the second config only needs to contain the stuff that has to be changed. 4. You can have as many separate shortcuts as you like, and as many different config files as you like. The point of this? With a few minutes of reading the instruction manual, you can make a shortcut that will automatically start up DOSBox with a specific choice of configuration settings, mount your games directory, switch to the mounted drive, enter the game directory and run it... and then exit DOSBox when the program terminates. Once you've done it for the first time, setting up another game is at most 3 - 5 minutes. Finding / making a spiffy icon to go with the shortcut is optional. So far, I've got 130 games set up this way. It might be a little more complex than setting up the game in D-Fend, but lacks the problems caused by the "hands off" approach a lot of frontend programs promote in their users. And once you're done, the game will launch with a simple double-click on the shortcut icon anyway. 
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| 26-09-2008 07:30 PM | ||
| Data |
it hasn't been updated for several years. The options it sets are not optimal for current versions of dosbox. So please a more updated one. D-Fend Reloaded might be the one for you as it looks like D-fend but then more up to date |
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| 26-09-2008 07:10 PM | ||
| AnimatedCorpse | Nice guides. I didn't know you could drag and drop game executables onto a DosBox shortcut like that. Drag and drop sure does speed things up. I've been researching other frontends. D-Fend looked really nice, but it has some serious bugs. | |
| 26-09-2008 05:13 PM | ||
| Japo |
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 You could use the basic tutorial but since you already know how to mount manually you're surely ready for the advanced one. There are other tutorials as well in their own folder, use what suits you best.
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| 26-09-2008 07:37 AM | ||
| Data |
just be happy that you didn't go to vogons  (you might have been seriously flamed (and for a good reason)) try DBGL as frontend if you find the mounting troublesome. |
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| 26-09-2008 03:39 AM | ||
| AnimatedCorpse |
Edited: I fixed it. I un-installed D-Fend/DosBox then I just downloaded the latest DosBox directly from the official site. Works perfectly! I don't know what was wrong with D-Fend version but it works okay now. A bit harder to start games since I have to mount all the directories manually but it works. Thanks for the assistance everyone. |
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| 26-09-2008 01:54 AM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
maybe your core is set to "full"? what's in your dosbox.conf? also, 10000 cycles is really slow, my 64bit 3000+ athlon runs fine with about 50000 cycles(i don't remember exactly). try setting it to "max" or "auto" |
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| 26-09-2008 01:20 AM | ||
| AnimatedCorpse |
The bar shows that the CPU cycles is at 10000, and it pretty much is 10000 constantly. Haven't seen it move. Also, in the bar, frameskip is at 0. I tried running with default options at first, I had same problem. Then I thought D-Fend Reloaded (frontend for DosBox) was at fault, so I tried running the games directly via DosBox. No change. Then I tweaked the default conf file, tested out different renderers, CPU cores and similar. No change. My old single core Athlon XP machine ran all these games fine and I only had 1GB of RAM back then. Now with quad CPU and 4GB of RAM and a video card 10 times faster I can barely run those same games. It could be Vista maybe? Although my drivers are latest versions. Also, I don't have much running in background. Right now, only one core is showing 3% to 5% load, other cores are at 0% most of the time. |
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| 25-09-2008 11:46 PM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. | try asking at vogons forum=) | |
| 25-09-2008 09:27 PM | ||
| Japo | 0.7x is much much more optimized than 0.6x, so I'm really surprised to hear that. Are you running it with the default options? Tyrian 2000 for one works perfectly with 2.8GHz and 1 GB of RAM (and much less). Maybe it's one of those graphic driver problems? Again, are you using the default configuration? What does DOSBox's title bar says (especially about cycles count) when run windowed? (Maybe your computer is too damn fast, try pressing Ctrl+F11 repeatedly?) | |
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