Poor performance in game Another World in full audio mode

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch the game in full audio mode

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
You can see very poor performance, game is not playable. Sound is hearable but 
with huge fps drop, lots of cracks are heard.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Android 2.2.1 (Froyo) on Samsung Galaxy S.
aDosBox 0.2beta

Please provide any additional information below.
In reduced audio mode or with sound disabled game is fully playable.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ol...@o2.pl on 29 Apr 2011 at 5:44

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Press "Search" and change "Where to download application data" from Internal 
storage to SD card.
Find dosbox CFG file at 
"/sdcard/app-data/org.hystudio.android.dosbox/.dosbox/dosbox-0.7.4.conf

Change your cpu settings from auto to dynamic may improve the performance a 
little bit, and you may also set
the cycle to a number between 2000-2500 (that's the best range for my Inspire 
4g which has a 1G arm CPU)

Poor performance is caused by high CPU load of adosbox.

Original comment by grea...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2011 at 7:57

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The problem with Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) is that the phone itself lacks the 
"Search" button so I cannot access directly the configuration dialog and I do 
not know if there is a workaround to get it. I also tried to find the conf file 
manually but without success. I searched whole phone for that file. Is there 
any default location of the conf file or can I create it going through console?

PS. How can I map the CTRL key?

Original comment by ol...@o2.pl on 3 May 2011 at 6:26

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Don't know about the control key... I would like to know myself.

But if you need to search for a file, you might try Astro on Android Market.  
However, my file with in a hidden directory called .android on the root of the 
sd card.

Original comment by hear...@gmail.com on 4 May 2011 at 4:44

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If you are using a rooted phone, the configure file should locate at 
/data/data/org.hystudio.android.dosbox/files/.dosbox/dosbox-0.7.4.conf
This folder cannot be accessed on rooted phones.

If not, you may have to uninstall the app and reinstall it again, the 
configuration dialog will pop up the first time you ran the app. Mapping the 
invocation of configuration dialog to "Search" button(stupid, I know) is a 
temporary solution. We will change this in the future release.

Original comment by grea...@gmail.com on 4 May 2011 at 5:18

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As for the Ctrl key, you can map it to one of those on-screen keys inside the 
configuration dialog.

Configuration Dialog->On-screen keyboard->Remap on-screen controls

You may add another on-screen key as well, you can have 6 on-screen keys in 
total.

Original comment by grea...@gmail.com on 4 May 2011 at 5:25

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Thx for all replies, especially greatht.
I used 'Astro' myself but it couldn't find the conf file, 'Root explorer' done 
the trick ;).
For me the only way to get the configuration dialog is by reinstalling the app. 
By going through this dialog I found the RCTRL and LCTRL mappings.
Playin with cpu settings didn't change anything, my setts are as follows:
core=dynamic
cputype=auto
cycles=2300
I found that changing sound (sampling rate?) from 10kHz to 5kHz in game's 
config raised performance a bit.
What's more, I tested Flashback and Dune 2 with sound and music on and those 
run good - no noticeable cracks.

PS. My aDosBox sound settings are same as defaults.

Original comment by ol...@o2.pl on 4 May 2011 at 6:56

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Original comment by grea...@gmail.com on 9 May 2011 at 8:14

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