WC1 Deluxe in dosbox.061

Sylvester

Sylvester

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I followed the manual instructions to install the game and got it to work correctly with sound and music. However, when I fly a mission, (And in the opening cutscence) the game moves very slowly, at a snails pace. The most slowdown occurs when I get in proximity to objects. Can anyone help? I tried using Control-F12 but its kinda cumbersome for speeding things up.
 
First you should change your cycles already in the dosbox.conf. - I use cycles=4000 for WC1 (my CPU: 3.067Ghz). Normally is enough, only in asteroid fields a bit more is better. Then the question: How fast is your CPU? And when you set cycles at say 4000, is the sound still OK?

EDIT: Just read in another post, that your CPU is 2.6Ghz, so definitely not too slow.
 
Ok, but game runs well then? Maybe you need less cycles than I do.
But if the game starts to run too slow again when the cutscenes are fine, I guess you need to always speed up your cycles for flying and slowdown for cutscenes (or read much faster ^^) Anyway: Even with the Kilrathi Saga, which doesn'T suffer under too fast CPUs, the cutscenes are a bit too fast. But if I remember right you can adjust it a bit. Forgot which button-combo it was, though :(
 
I found a problem, I would go up to 4000 and then when I reduced, it went down to 3615, not 3500, why is that?
 
That's cause the default dosbox.conf settings are a bit crazy: You up in 500 cycles and go down by 20% (or so, not sure) - so totally annoying. To change that, simply change these lines:
cycleup=500
cycledown=500
Then it will go up and down in 500 cycle steps.
 
Open up your dosbox.conf file in your Dosbox folder with an Editor. - Sorry, thought you already knew that file cause you started with 4000 cycles hich isn't default. Btw, the lines I'm talking about are below the cycles=4000 line ;)
 
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