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I need speed on DOS games (Users)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 04.07.2021, 23:23

Well, I am not expert for DosBox et all. Maybe others can advice you another build or another DosBox settings. By the way - do you have the emulation speed set to maximum?
Generaly - DosBox should allow to use alternate DOS kernel (like FreeDOS) except the default internal one. But do not expect any relevant speed up.
Another point - DOSbox is not the full hardware virtualisation. It means that it should be faster than other solutions like VWMare or QEMU.
Generaly, the i5 machine from 2018 should be powerful enough even for Screamer 2. Again - check your emulated CPU cycles to be high enough.
However I am uncertain about the 3DFX emulation. Some DOSbox build do support it some not - there is also space for experimenting.

If you are asking about running FreeDOS on real hardware (without virtualisation) it is very complicated but possible. I typing this text from notebook from 2020 which has dual boot configuration: Win10/FreeDOS.
But in almost all cases is impossible to get sound from such computer under DOS. So not a good solution for games.

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• I need speed on DOS games - chameleon, 04.07.2021, 20:56
  • I need speed on DOS games - Laaca, 04.07.2021, 23:23
  • I need speed on DOS games - RayeR, 05.07.2021, 07:02