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Old 18-12-2010, 06:36 PM   #1
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Default Music skipping in old games

I'm sure if this is a dos box thing or something I can set on my computer but I've been playing 2 games, Dylan Dog: The Murderers and King Quest 6. Both games, the music will play....but it skips constantly.

Is there a fix to this? Or does anybody else experience the music skip?

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Old 18-12-2010, 08:18 PM   #2
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Your hardware configuration and DOSBox config file, please.
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Old 19-12-2010, 09:51 AM   #3
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Click on Edit configuration in DosBox folder in Start menu and in the dosbox-xxx.conf file (xxx - version of DosBox installed) search for [mixer] and change the following:

blocksize=1024
prebuffer=128

to

blocksize=2048
prebuffer=512

That should help the sound / music skipping. If necessary you can raise prebuffer to more, but blocksize of 4096 would make the reaction of sounds too slow.
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Old 19-12-2010, 04:19 PM   #4
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Thanks all! I had figured it out and set dosbox to 44000 then changed the buffer etc. Works great now, thanks!
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