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I don't see any way to resolve this aside from playing with mouse (the mouse control sucks.) I've tried both joystick methods the non-default does not work at all. Running the game with constant cycles is no option, as it is way to fast with few ships but gets way to slow with many ships/planets. If cycles are increased/decreased the joystick calibration gets out of alignment i.e. While the game itself runs fine there IS a Joystick problem. Can anybody help me out? I downloaded it from Trouble is, there aren't any-the screen flashes a couple times and suddenly I'm in the bar. An optical mouse at this speed works better than a joystick did on a Pentium. Landing on a planet is quicker and less jerky.

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Windows 7, quad-core 2.3gb, 512mb ram and DosBox 0.74 with Tubo Dos Box front end. Other than that I am super excited that DOSBox exists and that I get to play one of my all-time favorite games again. Will have to play with that to see if it's a possible solution to our Joystick trouble.

But I remember playing this game - back in the day - on a 90MHz Pentium with one of the first Graphic Accelerator cards at very consistent frame rates.Īlso tried disabling 'High-resolution' mode in-game but it didn't change much.įurther I noticed the 'timed' setting in the joystick category. I am still new to DOSBox and not familiar with those setting. What CPU settings (machine, core, cputype, cycles) work best for you? Inconsistent frame rates & Joystick re-calibration issue ( right, constant cycles make the game slow down when approaching planets or when your tailing an enemy closely. Between these two, you can sort of run the game at a playable level.

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Then you need a tool like CPU Killer to kill the hyperspeed, and the speed patch you can find on WC CIC.

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One silver lining is that you can straight up install and run this game in Windows 7 (64-bit) with the W95 version (Google to see how to turn DOS version into W95). (For reference, I'm running an Intel i5 at 3.8ghz.) conf file that I don't know about that would mitigate this issue.

Maybe there are some tricks to set in the. I suppose you could play with the mouse and fiddle with cycle rate all the time, but who really wants to replay the game with a mouse? You can manually ratchet up your cycles to compensate, but throws your joystick calibration out of whack, so you lose either way. This game is unplayable in Dosbox because, when you approach a planet or large ship, your framerate dives terribly. I am a relative newbie to Dosbox so perhaps I'm off the mark, but my experience dovetails with a couple other posts here.

A good tutorial on installing can be found here. If you the game goes to a black screen and freezes after the introduction movies, choose Soundblaster 16/Pro for your music card instead of general midi, this worked for me. I had to change a few things to get it working nicely as I will document below. Privateer 2: The Darkening works perfectly in DosBox 0.74. Privateer 2 The Darkening Troubleshooting ( 10:03) If its not quite right, its still not flying stright when the joystick is centered you can try opening up the configuration file in the Privateer 2 installation directory and putting in the joystick values manually. Run Privateer 2 in DosBox again, if go in the options menu and configure the joystick in game, you might get it working. Now you must open the file in the DosBox directory. You might want to try changing the joystick type to reflect whatever joystick you are using as well. Scroll down to the section and change timed to true. If you are having trouble getting your joystick going, firstly try going to your DosBox installation directory and opening the DosBox options/configuration file. Privateer 2 The Darkening Joystick Troubleshooting ( 10:05) Privateer 2: The Darkening - Origin (1996)