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First post, by twistedemotions

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Would dualcore make any difference with DOSBOX?

I'm guessing that while DOSBOX emulates various pieces of a old school PC, it is still single threaded... so it wouldn't make a difference.

Am I on the right track here?

Reply 2 of 4, by DosFreak

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IIRC, SDL multithreads sounds but that's about it for DosBox. The only benefit to dual/quad core or dual processors for DosBox is the ability to load other programs while using DosBox.

I wonder if DosBox video recording feature is multithreaded?

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Reply 3 of 4, by EverybodyJump

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Would be neat if one core could do the system emulation and other core could do the sound emulation. Or even have another core do the things like filters/shaders.

Maybe it could sort out stuttering... but keeping sound thread in sync with the system thread would be tricky.