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Mario & Luigi (MS-DOS) Forum  /  DosBox Cycles

Sivart0Sivart0

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  Sivart0Sivart0
11 Jan 2020, 06:16

I have my DosBox set to max cycles and, after watching his video and doing a lot of testing, realized my game was running slightly faster than Eon's. We need to decide if max should be allowed, or some other value should be used.

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  PandoraPandora
11 Jan 2020, 15:26 (edited: 11 Jan 2020, 15:26)

Yeah I run at max cycles too, it works nice for some games (we accept max in Hocus Pocus, another DOS game).

I think the game gets max speed around 10000 cycles, so that could be a reasonable number to follow. Max cycles can get insanely higher than that with a good pc, but some DOS games don't speed up after a certain threshold (I think I got the same speed here with 50000 cycles, but I haven't timed transitions yet).

In any case both max and set cycles are pc dependent, max cycles will go slower with a slow pc, and fixed high cycles will cause lag and sound glitches in slow pc's.

Also I think it's important to set a DosBox version (I've seen various inconsistencies with some special builds). DosBox 0.74 It's the most stable version in my experience with DOS games.

 

Sivart0Sivart0

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  Sivart0Sivart0
11 Jan 2020, 23:49

I've figured that the previous WR run was doing ~15000 cycles, which I feel would be a good value, as 10000 just feels... gross.

 

PandoraPandora

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  PandoraPandora
11 Jan 2020, 23:53

15k seems good for rules

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