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HX DOS Extender 2.17+ with modern sound card support (Announce)

posted by Wengier E-mail, 19.02.2016, 17:28
(edited by Wengier on 19.02.2016, 17:42)

> This is great news, but the whole idea of having to run DOSBOX, a DOS
> emulator in native DOS, is stretching things... It makes everything slow,
> slow, slow. About a factor of 100x slower. Unless I'm missing something,
> the overhead is immense, and you need at least an I7 to play a simple game
> like Doom or Wolfenstein 3D at 30 fps framerate, and even then at 320x200
> only?s Whereas on a modern system, those game would consume only ~2-3% of
> CPU / GPU.
Personally I obviously did notice the overhead with DOSBox when I tried DOS apps/games under HX, but the a few apps or games I tested on the desktop computer that I bought a few years ago worked least okay this way. Not that many of them will run near as fast as in a native DOS when using on a modern PC, but at least at an acceptable speed in my testing. Some of them can in fact work pretty smoothly. To further speed up the applications under DOSBox, you may try to increase its CPU cycles etc. Moreover, Ruslan plans to write graphics hardware acceleration (OpenGL) for DOS based on the MESA project library. This will dramatically increase the rendering speed.

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