I believe ykhwong's build has the Vsync patch built in but I'm not fully up on what's required to use it effectively.

Well first of all - dosbox won't tear any more than Ms-dos, least not from my experience. What games have this issue? Some apogee games have "SVGA Fix" and "Screen jerk" options that can help this a lot in their options screens.

I recommend trying double buffering (fulldouble in the dosbox.conf) and see if that helps. If not, try ykhwong's build with vsync as DosFreak suggested 😀

PS - Also - tearing is a result of going overboard on the frames per second. Another solution might be to reduce the cycles on the game so that its not running beyond any ideal speeds.

hey fellow Canadian!!

The game I am currently playing that experiences screen tearing during animations is 3 Skulls of the Toltecs.

I've tried the fulldouble=true but it doesnt make a difference and neither does the vsync option in ykhwong's build, but thanks to you and DosFreak for those suggestions.

maybe the screen tears in ms-dos as well...cant really test it, but i thought there might be a feature or util for DOSBox to correct for this

I just checked Mobygames, this is in the same 'series' as Wanted? 😮 Interesting. I also noticed it had a windows version, I don't suppose its included on your version is it?

Also, being an adventure game, does the screen scroll or is this 'tearing' occuring on ordinary animations? Its just that its style looks like Monkey Island, which does not seem to suffer from massive tearing.

hey there,

yes i have the windows version as well and i see the same tearing in the animations....the non-animation parts (where you actually control the character) does not seem to exhibit the tearing its just apparent in the game animations (movies)

but if what you said is true that DOSBox does tear any more than ms-dos, maybe its just the way the game is made (although i find that hard to believe)...and by tearing i mean it looks like part of the screen is refreshing (redrawing) before the other part is finished kind of...maybe there is a way to make a video of it to show you...

i noticed that the new version of DOSBox has a video capture feature...maybe i can utilize that

well it appears I've made some progress with this issue using gulikoza's latest build...the screen tearing is much less apparent in this game when the core is set to "normal" (I originally had it at "dynamic" as I usually run my games with dynamic core) and I'm guessing the vga_parts 1 is making a big difference to as the screen is therefore being drawn in 1 part as opposed to 4, thereby minimizing the tearing...

It tears on the movies? Thats odd....but it nice to know guikoza's build helps a little. 😀

yeah it tears in the cartoon animations....on a related note, i noticed in a post that you tested Ripper and got it working....i have it working too but there is mega tearing present in that game...do you notice the tearing on your end?? its a really good example of the tearing i experience in 3skulls

ok with Ripper it appears that the tearing is apparent in the .smk files themselves as I see the tearing when i use Bink player to view the movies outside the game, so i guess back in the day, some games experienced this tearing but we were oblivious to it =oP, but in the case of 3skulls, it can be minimized using gulikoza's build

although it is strange that the tearing is minimized, not eliminated, when running this game under VDMSound...

I just looked at movies from Ripper and theres no tearing on this end. :\

which ones did you look at? also, did you try running RIpper in DOSBox to see if there's tearing?

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which ones did you look at? also, did you try running RIpper in DOSBox to see if there's tearing?

Well actually I *have* to run Ripper in dosbox, as I haven't been able to get this game running in years. 😊

I didn't see any excess tearing, and even running "Riper.bat" to watch the joke video didn't tear in windows xp.

Although even if Ripper had massive tearing I'd still take it, considering its been years since the videos worked at all. I do recall in some motion heavy areas it did tear on the original MS-DOS, but I would have to play through it to see if it happened to me now in dosbox.