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[The Fifth Horseman]

What cycles are you running at?
... and if in the config file it's "auto", you have your cause.

[denim]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

What cycles are you running at?
... and if in the config file it's "auto", you have your cause.

Yes its set to auto....lemme confirm first......yes cycles set to auto..and on the dosbox console screen...its saying "DOSBOX 0.74, CPU Speed 3000 Cycles, Frameskip 0, Programs: DOSBOX."

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by denim

Y.its saying "DOSBOX 0.74, CPU Speed 3000 Cycles, Frameskip 0, Programs: DOSBOX."

So you're running W3.x in dosbox on 3000 cycles ....?
[Echo mode]

Originally Posted by dosraider

[/Echo mode]
Take a good look at the dosbox menu bar .....

[denim]

Originally Posted by dosraider

So you're running W3.x in dosbox on 3000 cycles ....?

Take a good look at the dosbox menu bar .....

Take a look at the image....it will explain.......


My current video driver is S3 864 1.41B5 800x600 64K colors Large Fonts.
I changed to this driver hardly 30 mins ago...Before that i was running windows 3.11 on S3 864 1.41B5 800x600 32K colors Small Fonts.
seems like no problem with the drivers or may be problem with all of the listed drivers.

[denim]

Originally Posted by dosraider

So you're running W3.x in dosbox on 3000 cycles ....?


Take a good look at the dosbox menu bar .....

By the way is that your computer screen shot running holiday island, the one in your previous post??? how did u make the holiday island window appear bigger? or u just resized the jpg file for the post ??? thanks....

[The Fifth Horseman]

cycles=auto is supposed to use autodetection to run DOSBox at optimum speed for the games. It doesn't always quite manage that trick, though, and the result is that DOSBox tries to run at speeds your machine can't quite handle and consequently lags.
Set the cycles value in dosbox.conf to a fixed one - eg 18000 - and cycleup and cycledown to fixed values as well - 500 to 1000 is recommended.

By the way is that your computer screen shot running holiday island, the one in your previous post??? how did u make the holiday island window appear bigger? or u just resized the jpg file for the post ??? thanks....

Set output to overlay or ddraw.
Aspect to true.
Scaler to whatever you really want (some scalers will slightly improve the images' appearance, but it's at the cost of the processing power - "normal" will work just fine, "none" if you prefer no mucking around with the display)
windowresolution to whatever you want the window size to be. I ran quite a few games under windowed mode in 800x600 resolution no problem.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by denim

By the way is that your computer screen shot running holiday island, the one in your previous post??? how did u make the holiday island window appear bigger? or u just resized the jpg file for the post ??? thanks....

No resizing whatsoever.
Windows 3.11 res is set to 800x600 256 colors but:
in dosbox conf 'windowresolution' is set to 1024x768 so dosbox stretches the 800x600 to a 1024x768 window.
There are some pro and contras using that method, for my personal taste it's ok, and it gives me max compatibility towards games, decide for yourself what you want.

[denim]

Originally Posted by dosraider

No resizing whatsoever.
Windows 3.11 res is set to 800x600 256 colors but:
in dosbox conf 'windowresolution' is set to 1024x768 so dosbox stretches the 800x600 to a 1024x768 window.
There are some pro and contras using that method, for my personal taste it's ok, and it gives me max compatibility towards games, decide for yourself what you want.

I set to cpu cycles to 18000 and cycle up and cycle down values to 500 and 1000 respectively. but there's no good change in the performance... Still lags the same way. I extended the dosbox memory in the configuration file from 16 to 32. But that doesnt help either.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by dosraider

No resizing whatsoever.
Windows 3.11 res is set to 800x600 256 colors but:
in dosbox conf 'windowresolution' is set to 1024x768 so dosbox stretches the 800x600 to a 1024x768 window.
There are some pro and contras using that method, for my personal taste it's ok, and it gives me max compatibility towards games, decide for yourself what you want.

Originally Posted by denim

Take a look at the image....it will explain.......


My current video driver is S3 864 1.41B5 800x600 64K colors Large Fonts.
I changed to this driver hardly 30 mins ago...Before that i was running windows 3.11 on S3 864 1.41B5 800x600 32K colors Small Fonts.
seems like no problem with the drivers or may be problem with all of the listed drivers.

Search the differences.
@800x600 256 colors the burden on the CPU is much lesser then 800x600 64K/32K colors.

in dosbox conf 'windowresolution' is set to 1024x768 so dosbox stretches the 800x600 to a 1024x768 window.
Great advantage: you get a 1024x768 window but W3 is running@800x600 256, much lesser impact on the CPU.
Notice: that is the windowresolution that dosbox will give you, NOT windowsresolution.
Whilst the aspect ratio stays on a normal 4:3, no distorted view.

Also: what's all that crap running on the background?

I get the feeling I (and others) keep repeating ourselfs over and over, you seems to have a hard time reading what we tell you.

now i've been hunting this game for ages, i read every post and guidelines, and still i can't manage to get this game working, i am slightly getting used to dosbox, but i have no idea how to set it all up with "ISO" ? etc etc etc, i'm using windows 7 and i have the CDrom for this game.