narech:

Yeah, both ChieSawaguchi and myself got DF to run, but it's a bit slow... Unfortunately I'm not sure that much can be done to improve the situation.

I remember having occasional crashes with DF+DOS32A. Didn't you say that you were working on some DOS32A fixes for Dark Forces that aren't yet available? Or did you release a new version with those fixes?

did you release a new version with those fixes?

There's a beta at dos32a.sf.net. It's mostly for devs (merged source/bunary distro), but end-users can ignore sources and use the prebuilt exec.

Chie, if you have a 3.5GHz P4 you should be ok.... I recommend you use Gulikoza's DOSBOX builds. He adds some great stuff, and you get the latest CVS code. I use his pixel shaders to improve image quality (and speed over the regular image processing things like HQ2X). You need a beefy video card for this though, DX9 compliant.

I have the cycles set at 15000 by default, but I've found with my Pentium M 2.13Ghz that I can go a lot higher (about 30000). And this is with MIDI on and running thru Window's Roland GS software wavetable doodad...I'm also just using DOS4GW as DOS32A is unhappy with this game 😀

Here's the dosbox.conf file I use for DF (I pruned out the unchanged stuff and comments):

1[sdl]
2fullscreen=false
3fulldouble=false
4fullfixed=false
5fullresolution=1440x900
6output=direct3d
7hwscale=1.0
8autolock=true
9sensitivity=100
10waitonerror=true
11priority=higher,normal
12mapperfile=mapper.txt
13pixelshader=bilinear.fx
14
15[dosbox]
16frameskip=1
17aspect=false
18scaler=normal2x
19hq2x_threshold_adaptive=75
20hq2x_threshold=0
21
22[cpu]
23core=normal
24cycles=15000
25cycleup=500
26cycledown=20
27timesynched=false
28showcycles=false
29
30[mixer]
31nosound=false
32rate=22050
33blocksize=2048
34prebuffer=10
35
36[midi]
37mpu401=true
38intelligent=true
39device=default
40mt32rate=22050
41config=
42
43[sblaster]
44type=sbpro2
45base=220
46irq=7
47dma=1
48hdma=5
49mixer=true
50oplmode=auto
51oplrate=22050
52
53[gus]
54gus=false
55rate=22050
56base=240
57irq1=5
58irq2=5
59dma1=3
60dma2=3

61ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
62
63[speaker]
64pcspeaker=true
65pcrate=22050
66tandyrate=22050
67disney=false
68
69[dos]
70xms=true
71ems=true
72
73[autoexec]
74mount c d:\Games\Emu\DOSBOX\games
75c:
76cd dark

narech wrote:

AFAIK DF works with DOSBox CVS + dos32a beta and SoundBlaster emulation (GUS emu randomly crashes the game, no idea why). DOS4GW seems to work just as well.

What is AFAIK? and Dos Box CVS?? I have dosbox 0.69 something

AFAIK is an acronym for "As Far As I Know"

I made a big post about CVS versions of DOSBox here: DOSBox SVN Builds

Help!
I recently installed DosBox and am trying to run Dark Forces.
I am having many problems, though.
For one, I cannot install the game on DosBox or XP.
On XP, a Command Prompt window pops up for a split-second before disappearing.
When I go to my CDRom drive (X:\) and execute the install program (in DosBox), the game tells me that there is a problem creating a new directory. (I already mounted my D: drive that I use to put games on, and my C: drive, just to be safe.)
I also tried copying all of the files (except the demo files) off of the disc into a seperate directory on my hard drive and installing it from there. Now the installer won't run (It tells me that it has a problem reading jedi.cfg), nor will the game itself when run from the 'Dark' file.
When I run the game from the CD without installing it, there is no sound, the screen is too big (on fullscreen mode), and it laaagggsssss...
Oh, and I run on XP, if that helps.
Any help is appreciated!

Did you try a cvs-compile? Look at the development forum
where to get one. The installer should work there.

Hi there I'm usually quite good technically but am really new to dosbox and am having exactly the same problem as ConfusedWisdom with Dark Forces. I just can't get the installer to work. I've had a look at the development forum and to be honest got a little confused. Any kind soul out there willing to give me some advice on which cvs-compile is likely to work?

I'm running Windows XP and have DEFINITELY mounted the cd-rom properly!

For the convenience of those following this thread, the CVS info thread can be found here: DOSBox SVN Builds

ykhwong's, gulikoza's, and possibly the AEP build should all work fine. The AEP build doesn't have any experimental patches but is updated infrequently.

Thanks HunterZ I downloaded the gulikoza cvs and Dark Forces works. Didn't work using the AEP build though.

Yeah, the AEP build hasn't been updated for a long time. Gulikoza's and ykhwong's are the only builds I know of that are being regularly updated these days, which is disappointing because I'd like to be able to refer people to a plain vanilla CVS build. Gulikoza's and ykhwong's contain lots of cool extra patches, but this can make it harder to tell whether a problem is the result of DOSBox code or patch code.