Technical problems with WCIV

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I've recently acquired DosBox ver .73 and started playing with many old games

My WCIV is cd-rom, all installation and setup was going smooth (thanks to your guide)

However all cutscenes are heavily 'lined' when playing on small window while going full screen makes everything look 'jagged' on the edge, anyway to smoothen the edges or improve the quality?

Also, every 5 to 6 seconds of cutscene I experience some 'pause' for about a second, it happens since testing the video upon installation. The screen or sound wasnt affected, just that everything stops for a second that's it, how can I improve this?

During space flight things get a bit slow during explosions or increased enemy presence, like there wasnt enough memory to keep up with the game

Though its of little concern but it can get very annoying in the long run, any ideas this can be solved?

Thanks~
 
There's no way to turn off the interlacing in the DOS Version. If you apply the win95 patch available in the CIC's files section you can add the -no_interlace parameter to the target line in the shortcut properties. That will remove the black lines but I'm not so sure you'll think it looks better.

however I'm sure you'll find it probably runs smoother than in dosbox.
 
Good day again and thanks for the quick respond

Well, getting the cutscene to run smooth without momentary pause is a good enough bargain, this is, afterall, just cd-rom and not the new DVD version~

So you mean with the win95 patch I can get the game running in XP in smooth shape?

I've been trying to install it straight with XP but met with a lot of problems during installation. Mouse's no working and the cursor runs too fast to properly select anything. However the biggest problem comes when testing out video 'cause no matter which one I choose it will hang up the computer during test-run

An amateur question though, if I had problem getting it installed in XP, how do I get the patch working? Is it something done before install?

I didnt copy any of the files to my drive during installation, if I do so will that increase the game perfomance? Etc making things run more smoother during space flight

Thanks again~
 
The patch is a replacement for your WCIV executable file. Put the patch in your WCIV directory and then, if you have a desktop shortcut, replace it with a link to the new executable. Game should run smoothly.
 
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