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Post by yuriks on May 9, 2007 22:12:03 GMT
A Pentium III is far TOO slow to run Tyrian on DosBox. DosBox is a complete emulator, it needs A LOT of CPU power. No, memory doesn't affect it. (Since it only generally uses at most 16 megs)
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Post by Squall Leonhart on May 10, 2007 9:10:12 GMT
thats one of the main deficits about DosBox...
what we need is someone to write a XPDOS, lol... instead of emulating a cpu, it emulates a cycles cap instead so it just uses the cycles from the CPU, and allows you to slow it down, should it run too fast.
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Post by yuriks on May 10, 2007 16:49:09 GMT
No, that wouldn't do shit. Modern OSes don't let programs directly access the hardware (and with good reason), which is why you need to emulate a complete system to play those games.
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Post by Squall Leonhart on May 12, 2007 10:47:21 GMT
yahuh.. w/e, im sure it is possible if people were to actually try....
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Post by yuriks on May 12, 2007 16:04:14 GMT
It isn't.
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Post by Squall Leonhart on May 13, 2007 8:38:23 GMT
yes, and im sure the world would not have windows if bill gates said that.
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Post by yuriks on May 13, 2007 19:09:25 GMT
If you don't know wtf you're talking about, then don't talk.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to run DOS programs on a modern windows without using some kind of emulator or VM (like the Windows DOS mini-emulation, which, btw, doesn't works that well), simply because, as a FEATURE, they restrict direct access to the hardware, which is what all DOS programs do.
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Post by Gamera on May 15, 2007 11:58:24 GMT
Everyone may talk whether they know wtf they are talking about or not.
This is the internet after all.
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Post by Squall Leonhart on May 15, 2007 14:11:02 GMT
 Net Neutrality |
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Post by death on Jun 1, 2007 22:46:04 GMT
how did that guy become a moderator?
oh, and I followed the instructions on the first post, and Tyrian STILL runs slow for me. (slightly slower) can anyone help?
p.s this site needs tyrian avatars.
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Post by yuriks on Jun 2, 2007 2:16:34 GMT
What are your PC specs? DOSBox requires a pretty powerful processor (and a mildly blazing fast graphics card, fast as in fast data transfer, not fast 3d rendering).
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Post by leilei on Jun 2, 2007 18:30:43 GMT
Tyrian worked great at Pentium detial in Dosbox 0.63 (cvs) on my Tbird 950. 0.70 is a whole deal lot faster though. Unrelated but Dosbox 0.70 is fast enough to play Doom on my p2 233 without frameskip  Try setting scaler = none. Your PIII may have hope yet. Just don't try Wild detail. p.s this site needs tyrian avatars. Free board hosting is often limited so this isn't possible |
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Post by yuriks on Jun 2, 2007 20:01:38 GMT
Whoa. I have a 1.3GHz Athlon XP and can't even run on High! =S
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Post by death on Jun 3, 2007 0:58:13 GMT
see? this guy is the most n00bish mod I've ever seen!
anyway, I've got it going on high, but I'll have to ajust it more for pentium
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Post by shawn on Jun 5, 2007 12:20:45 GMT
www.xfire.com/profile/arraysun/Scroll all the way down for my specs. It runs on high in Tyrian, yes, but over 9 instances of ships will cause significant slowdowns.
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Net Neutrality 
Try setting scaler = none. Your PIII may have hope yet. Just don't try Wild detail.