keyboard locks cannot shoot wc1

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Hi Guys

I studied all the guides and still have trouble.
I run WC1 under DOSBOX 072.
When not too many objects on screen everything is fine but when I run into more ships / asteroids etc. everything slows down, skips and I cannot shoot! just like keybord locks or smthng. I press space and nothing happens untill I fly out of crowd. I played with CPU cycles already and it's no help - if I go to 5000 cycles game start to go too fast normally while same happens in more intense battle.
I tried both PS/2 and USB keyboard.

HELP!!!
 
You could experiment with cycles=auto and see if it plays any better. If it only sort of helps you can also try switching to auto or normal core.
 
Played with those settings. They do not change the situation at all.

Did anyone played WC1 smooth under dosbox and could send me full dosbox.conf for that?
 
Someone else's dosbox.conf could work differently for you depending on cpu speeds and such. What type of processor do you have? Have you tried adjusting frameskip as well? My DOSBox.conf is pretty much what you get when you follow the steps in the CIC's tech support walkthroughs. I can still try to post it if people want.
 
Unless Dosbox can do some tricks, I doubt there's much you can do; the dos-version of WC I runs as fast as it can, and since most of it's work is graphics, speed is (ca.) inversely proportional to sprites onscreen...

But maybe frame-skipping when you expect many sprites onscreen might change it?

Or getting hold of Kilrathi Saga - it has speed code
 
Andrew_Red said:
Unless Dosbox can do some tricks, I doubt there's much you can do
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That's what the cycles=auto that AD suggested does. DOSBox tries to regulate the CPU juice it's giving the application in order to smooth out the game.
 
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