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Loading in Windows 9x games #3101

Open BridgeHeadland opened 2 years ago

BridgeHeadland commented 2 years ago

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When I run a game for Windows 95, 98 and/or ME in these mentioned operating systems, it happens that some parts of the game loads, but in Windows 98SE (and maybe other 9x OSs) in the current DOSBox-X, so is the loading time much longer than I can remember, where I, for example, wait for the computer's chess moves when I play chess in hard mode. Will it be fixed in an update in the near future, or possibly if it is possible to me to manually fix the loading time in the config? I currently play an interactive game that even consists of a set of mini-games and activities, where I even play chess. Originally, to play this game, you really have to have the CD in the computer, a overprotected CD (the people behind the game certainly did not want the game to be copied, even now that it is completely sold out). The contents of the CD I now have in a virtual D drive (not CD-ROM) in W98SE in the current DOSBox-X, plus a crack for the game, which I have downloaded once, since I can not bear to use this CD at all. Otherwise, the game works like a dream.

rderooy commented 2 years ago

Did you follow the instructions on the wiki for installing Win9x? In particular do you have hard drive data rate limit=0 set?

BridgeHeadland commented 2 years ago

Did you follow the instructions on the wiki for installing Win9x? In particular do you have hard drive data rate limit=0 set?

I have tried both 0 and -1 (where the latter is the recommended option), and both are equally fast. I have not installed the Windows I use, since I do not know 100% how to start installing Windows in DOSBox. I found this in the Collection Chamber.

rderooy commented 2 years ago

-1 is in this case not the recommended option. It causes slowdown which for some older DOS games is needed, but not for running Win9x.

In any case, installing Win9x in DOSBox-X is pretty straight forward, as I said, it is documented on the wiki including recommended options for the config file.

BridgeHeadland commented 2 years ago

-1 is in this case not the recommended option. It causes slowdown which for some older DOS games is needed, but not for running Win9x.

In any case, installing Win9x in DOSBox-X is pretty straight forward, as I said, it is documented on the wiki including recommended options for the config file.

I think that explains why it was slow when I had to run a PWAD (I tried to run NERVE.WAD) in Doom II, without using sourceport, to see if I could go through an entire PWAD this way in DOSBox, without that it crashed, as it does with SVN Daum, for example. I currently do not have enough space on my PC to test it out.