How To Get More Comples Games To Work In Winxp - Page 2

xoopx · 04-01-2005, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jan 4 2005, 10:12 PM
What exactly is that dos32a thing? While your link prove usefull, it is not very informative or explicative IMHO.

dos32a is an open source replacement for dos4gw (and other dos extenders) its a heeeeell of a lot faster.

yeah the guide isnt exactly more than the bare minimum listing because i did it in 5 minutes

its more aimed at the people who had a good go at tweaking it themselves already..

i will eventually get round to doing a step by step guide.. im hoping that other people will test if they get the same results. it might be that other sound cards need different settings

Koen · 04-01-2005, 09:39 PM

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Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jan 4 2005, 09:34 PM
All the help i could throw at you already been mentioned in this thread Koen. DOSBox is the best software I know about, VDMSound will allow you to play most DOS games in WinXP since the sound is usually the biggest problem... But it won't solve any speed problem which may arise, which DOSBox would solve.

If you can't run DOSBox decently, you should not run WinXP in the first place. This is only my personnal oppinion, but that's really what I think.

If you can you should try to get Win98 SE if you really can't get a faster computer. And I would recommend at least 1 gig mhz for DOSBox.

Isn't a 875 mhz machine enough to run winXP? I even run Half Life 2, and Doom 3 with this machine. So why can't a 'simpler' game like 'blood' ot 'doom' (yeah even doom!) be played using a dos emulator? Even ps2/gba emulators are working great.

I'm not going back to windows 98, because doom 3 doesn't support win98 anymore...

Thanks for that link xoopx! I'll try it out.

xoopx · 04-01-2005, 09:49 PM

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Originally posted by Koen+Jan 4 2005, 10:39 PM****
QUOTE (Koen @ Jan 4 2005, 10:39 PM)
******QuoteBegin-Eagle of Fire@Jan 4 2005, 09:34 PM
All the help i could throw at you already been mentioned in this thread Koen. DOSBox is the best software I know about, VDMSound will allow you to play most DOS games in WinXP since the sound is usually the biggest problem... But it won't solve any speed problem which may arise, which DOSBox would solve.

If you can't run DOSBox decently, you should not run WinXP in the first place. This is only my personnal oppinion, but that's really what I think.

If you can you should try to get Win98 SE if you really can't get a faster computer. And I would recommend at least 1 gig mhz for DOSBox.

Isn't a 875 mhz machine enough to run winXP? I even run Half Life 2, and Doom 3 with this machine. So why can't a 'simpler' game like 'blood' ot 'doom' be played using a dos emulator? Even ps2/gba emulators are working great.

I'm not going back to windows 98, because doom 3 doesn't support win98 anymore...

Thanks for that link xoopx! I'll try it out. [/b][/quote]
hah i had a friend's 166mhz machine running xp.. although with 320 mb of ram.
memory is more of requirement for xp than cpu, although obviously over 500mhz is a very good idea.

dosbox is so demanding because its emulating the soundcard, the graphics card, the cpu, the whole shebang of an old p.c -at a lot of accuracy (accuracy = slower) and its all done by your p.c's cpu - the 3d card doesnt help like it probably does in a ps2 emulator