Performance lowering.

[Ashmada]

So, I've been delving back into teh olde abandonware games.
I'm talking olde olde, stuff mah 486 (hell, even my 286 in some cases) could run smoothly: Doom 1/2/Plutonia, OMF2097, Whacky Wheels, Solar Winds, Jazz Jackrabbit, Duke Nukem 1/2,... teh nostalgia is strong in this one.

Predictably, trying to run those on newer machines yields speed issues, namely: they play way too fast.
On my previous rig (now pretty old as well, Athlon 2000+), I could toy with Dosbox's Frameskip setting and slow games down to suitable levels; on the new one (i5-2500k), it's far from sufficient.



Any other means, short of underclocking?
I've tried an app simply called "Slowdown", didn't do anything (mebbe it doesn't work in Dosbox... but since it's 32-bit ONRY it won't work without either).

[hey]

This is built into dosbox.

[Kaisha]

DOS-BOX? Mash Ctrl-F11 a few times. You want to lower the emulated # of cycles, not skip frames.

[Ashmada]

Yeah, that's what I meant by "far from enough": lowering CPU cycles. Tired, misspoke. Indeed, frameskips could only speed up, not slow down .

Edit: actually, nevermind. You can set a fixed number of CPU cycles in Dosbox's configuration file, that works. It worked on %ages by default and even 1% was too high.