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Posted December 11, 2010
Hi there
As the good old games are not very graphics intensive, nothing wrong with that, that makes them ideal for use on a laptop. However I have noticed that Dosbox tend to ocuppy 100% of a core, and in a laptop such behavior means more heat and less battery life. So any ideas or suggestions to make it less resource intensive
This question / problem has been solved by Thievimage
Posted December 11, 2010
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rhiannon: Hi there
As the good old games are not very graphics intensive, nothing wrong with that, that makes them ideal for use on a laptop. However I have noticed that Dosbox tend to ocuppy 100% of a core, and in a laptop such behavior means more heat and less battery life. So any ideas or suggestions to make it less resource intensive
No. You see, that's how dos was made. Dos always uses 100% of the core even at idle since it doesn't actually idle. It's using the processor to constantly check for user input.
Post edited December 11, 2010 by Kabuto
Posted December 11, 2010
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rhiannon: [...]
Actually, according to DOSBox wiki you can throttle the program's CPU usage. Just lower the number of cycles.
Post edited December 11, 2010 by Thiev
Posted December 11, 2010
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rhiannon: Hi there
As the good old games are not very graphics intensive, nothing wrong with that, that makes them ideal for use on a laptop. However I have noticed that Dosbox tend to ocuppy 100% of a core, and in a laptop such behavior means more heat and less battery life. So any ideas or suggestions to make it less resource intensive
DOSBox running at 3000 cycles (which I believe is the default) is only showing about 34% of both of the cores in my laptop, and that's with a bunch of other programs running.
If your cores are running at 100% perhaps you have the cycles set too high or are running too many other programs.
Post edited December 11, 2010 by eyeball226
Posted December 11, 2010
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rhiannon: Hi there
As the good old games are not very graphics intensive, nothing wrong with that, that makes them ideal for use on a laptop. However I have noticed that Dosbox tend to ocuppy 100% of a core, and in a laptop such behavior means more heat and less battery life. So any ideas or suggestions to make it less resource intensive
I find Game Booster from IOBit essential on my laptop.

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html
Posted December 12, 2010
so its seem that for each game I 'll nedd to fiddle with the config files of dos box to find the perfect balance between preformance and resources.
in an entirely different topic do we have a suggestion box
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