zemela wrote: (1) I've a problem with sounds and music - game crashes, whenever I start a new game, saying "play_music_alien failed!". Managed to run the game with /x flag - no sound and music. Same problem here. Is there a solution without disabling sound/music?

kolano wrote: Thought folks would like to know that Hyllian was able to provide a shader version xBR compatible with DOSbox's shaders... https://mega.co.nz/#!MJABWYJD!His25cu38q78urR … 1FMAzJJof6RWeh4 Great, thanks! How do I use this?

How do I do this? The dosbox settings are: fullscreen=true fulldouble=false fullresolution=original windowresolution=original output=surface usescancodes=true overscan=0 frameskip=0 aspect=false linewise=false char9=false multiscan=false scaler=xbrz autofit=true I'm just taking screenshots with …

[quote="ZenJu"] It seems you tested with "aspect=true", where Dosbox adds artificial lines (most noticeable with the numbers 81, 98, ect.). In contrast to the other scalers xBRZ is not really integrated into Dosbox, so this setting needs to be turned off, or it will give those artifacts. PS: Please …

I tried out the xBRZ scaler, with some interesting results: http://imgur.com/a/UiF2W#7 It's entirely possible that I screwed up, though.

collector wrote: Try selecting Thunderboard. Unfortunately didn't work, no difference in popping noises in dialogue. Also tried adjusting the mixer rate and oplrate from default 22050 to 44100, no dice.

For speech/effects, choose Sound Blaster. Thunderboard gives poorer sound quality than a Sound Blaster in this game. In a past version of DOSBox (0.71 or 0.72 or something), selecting Thunderboard would give absolutely no stutter/pops in Gabriel Knight 1. The game's Soundblaster drivers are not …

Also: If the "Making of" video on the Gabriel Knight 1 CD-ROM is any indication, the target device was not any Sound Canvas, but some Proteus-like module. SC-55 will definitely have polyphony dropouts during some songs. I watched that video, and at 160x120x8 resolution, its tough to make out much …