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I've installed many renditions of Daggerfall. By cd, free-version (bethesda), and even the windows Daggerfall setup executables (official and unofficial)

I'll just get straight to the point, how do I fix the annoying slowdown indoors!

I have a fast enough computer to run Dosbox, I tried all the normal tweaks suggested by mainstream Dosbox users (cycles to max; dynamic core; output mode; sound; ect.) You name it I've tried it, all within the past two days under all my free time. I even bought VMware workstation only to figure out that the game speed, in 9x, was slow outdoors but normally fast indoors. GRRRRRR!

So I have this problem where I get 70fps outdoors, towns, dungeons; but in taverns and larger houses 10-20 fps. Look, i realize someone is going to explain that dosbox needs a lot of ram, processor blah blah blah I ran the game in visualization it was fine in 98 SE, 2000, and XP (indoors).

This should not be happening!

I'm not demanding anything from anybody but can somebody who is a whiz at Dos please give some input. I've invested too much free time and money just to let this problem slide by.

Input is valuable. I intend to fix this problem! DaggerXL is at least two years away and I want a smooth game. This is a ridiculous issue that is fixable because it doesn't make any sense.

I too used to get some slowdown when indoors, but ive found that if you look at your dosbox options and find this section at the beginning:


change "output=surface" to one of the other options overlay, opengl, openglnb, ddraw. I use ddraw and noticed a bit of a difference.

Hopefully that will help