This game was very laggy for me in the tactical combat.
Particularly when those alien used their smoke grenades.
But i dealt quite good with this problem and want to share my solution with you:
After some research I discovered that the dosbox setting "core=dynamic" can increase the performance. Unfortunately I the game crashes if i use this setting.
I further discovered that this can be solved by using
dos32a .
Replacing the dos4gw.exe will not be enough. You have to set it internally, for each .exe file of the game.
I had success with the following actions:
Unpack the dos32a files (in my case "c:\progra~1\dosbox\dos32a\")
make backup of all .exe files and copy them to the \binw of dos32a (you need to run the sb.exe for each)
run command prompt
go to your binw folder and type the following commands:
set dos32a=c:\progra~1\dosbox\dos32a (but use your path
)
sb /r xcomapoc.exe
sb /r ufo2p.exe
sb /r smkp.exe
sb /r tacp.exe
Finished. The .exe files are now linked to the dos32a, copy them back to their origins.
Now there is a good chance that you can set cory=dynamic. Well, it worked for me and that means a lot
From 12000 cycles I could increase to 25000 with 1 frameskip. The tactical combat is a lot faster, hope it is good enough
