First post, by TeaRex
I have found that DOSBox with core=dynamic cycles=max will run DOOM's "doom -timedemo demo1" faster than real MS-DOS 7.10 (i.e. a stripped down Win98 that boots into DOS) on my system. (E8400, nVidia 8600, 3GB RAM, Vista 32bit).
I get roughly 990 realtics in DOSBox and about 1145 realtics in MS-DOS. This is both with sound in DOOM disabled, since I don't have a DOS compatible sound card.
Good job guys (and gals if any)!
But I'm wondering how this can be... is the Core2Duo so much slower at running in real mode than in protected mode (note I'm not loading EMM386 in DOS)? Or is the PCI-E bus running slower when Windows is not booted?
tearex