Rasputitsa
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Joined: 6/30/2001 From: Bedfordshire UK Status: offline
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I am using DOSBox .74 with DosShell 1.7 'frontend' to run these old games, including 'War in Russia', 'Pacific War' and the earlier 'Western Front' in Windows 7 and Windows 10, no problems with speed, all works normally. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/ What DOSBox can do is slow the system down to match the old games, which might otherwise process too fast in modern faster computers, but speed is adjustable, here is a DOSBox Manual excerpt on speeding up. Graphics emulation (speed up) VGA emulation is a demanding part of DOSBox in terms of actual CPU usage. Increase the number of frames skipped (in increments of one) by pressing CTRL-F8. Your CPU usage should decrease when using a fixed cycle setting, and you will be able to increase cycles with CTRL-F12. You can repeat this until the game runs fast enough for you. Please note that this is a trade-off: you lose in fluidity of video what you gain in speed. However, using DosShell I have never had to make any speed adjustments.
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