Frame rate in Dos Box

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Alias · #1 Post by **Alias** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:12 pm

I wanted to know how do you change the frame rate in DosBox? I'm playing one must fall, even though I put the speed to full it is still very slow.

Thanks,
-Rog

Jafar · #2 Post by **Jafar** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:41 pm

Press ctrl-F12 a few times to raise the speed. Ctrl-F8 raises the frameskip.

Alias · #3 Post by **Alias** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:17 pm

And what about resolution of the DosBox window?

Jafar · #4 Post by **Jafar** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:22 pm

You can put it in full-screen by pressing alt-enter.

Alias · #5 Post by **Alias** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:23 pm

Cool. Thanks. ;)

Jafar · #6 Post by **Jafar** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:31 pm

No problem.

Alias · #7 Post by **Alias** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:45 pm

Does anybody know how to improve the music quality in QFG 1-4 using DosBox, the music is very jerky. :(

Pidgeot · #8 Post by **Pidgeot** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:22 pm

You need to modify the dosbox.conf file to improve that. Open it in Notepad (there should be a shortcut in the Start Menu), and find the [mixer] section. Play around with the values of blocksize and prebuffer a bit - the smaller those values are, the less lag there will be, but you're more likely to get stuttering sounds.

For me, these values work very well:

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[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=4096
prebuffer=10

If your computer has trouble running everything at an adequate speed with those settings, try setting rate to 22050 and blocksize to 2048. While the sound will be of a slightly worse quality, it's hardly noticeable at all.

Alias · #9 Post by **Alias** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:02 pm

I suddenly notice the speech and music has gone terrible in and out DosBox I dont know whats going on. I think my files are corrupt or something.