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rogeriovinhal
July 25th, 2006, 06:11 PM
Hi, I have a Kubuntu dapper 64 machine, and dosbox installed, but it feels terribly slow!
When I try to run doom2, it goes about 1 fps, or something like that.

My video card is correctly configured, and my config is more than enough to run about 100 parallel doom2s.
Athlon 64 3500+ with 1 GB RAM and ATI 9600XT.
vem0m
July 25th, 2006, 07:09 PM
u have 3d accel? also why not use a free native Doom solution?
rogeriovinhal
July 25th, 2006, 08:21 PM
Yes, I have DRI working.
I'm trying to make doomsday or doom legacy work, but neither of them is working for me, I just would like to have another option.

Since I use dosbox to another dos applications, It wouldn't be much of a problem to make it room the dooms also.
cc500
July 25th, 2006, 09:03 PM
Have you tried increasing the cycles in the dosbox.conf file?

If this doesn't help then try speeding up the game a little more by pressing CTRL+F12.

If this post doesn't help you there are also some dosbox forums with some people who use Ubuntu who may be able to help.

The forum is at: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/index.php?c=7
jISh
July 25th, 2006, 09:17 PM
15000 cycles and frameskip 2 runs my games just fine. (One Must Fall 2097, Acid Tetris, Descent 2, Tyrian 2000)
minisori
July 26th, 2006, 02:41 PM
Latest version of dosbox, from their page, work much faster than the one in the repos.
Artificial Intelligence
July 26th, 2006, 02:46 PM
For the latest dosbox check my howto, it also contains a gui to dosbox: http://gaming.gwos.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=63
fakie_flip
May 2nd, 2007, 03:56 AM
So far I am unable to get my games to work in Wine, Cedega, and dosbox. Does anyone have a guide for installing dos games in dosbox? I am a newbie to dos games and doxbox. I would like to get Doom for dosbox, but I don't know which one to get. How many Doom games are there that run in dos. Someone told me I need wad files. I don't know what they are or what to do with them, and what other files I need. That is why I am asking for a guide. Thanks.
Artificial Intelligence
May 2nd, 2007, 04:03 AM
I usually do dosbox <distination>/<name>.exe works 99% of the games I have tried.
fakie_flip
May 11th, 2007, 02:11 AM
Dosbox is an emulated dos, but dosemu is a dos application compatible layer like Wine, so it will run your Dos apps more quickly.
Artificial Intelligence
May 11th, 2007, 05:03 AM
Dosbox is an emulated dos, but dosemu is a dos application compatible layer like Wine, so it will run your Dos apps more quickly.

Heh, with todays machines it doesn't matter ;)