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[Hotel Detective]

For the benefit of (near) future readers, here's the two bits of advice which helped me out.

I ran it with Dosbox (My version is 0.69, I don't know if it's been updated) and I ran it on my Windows XP machine.

I don't consider myself any kind of computer wiz, so this should be in the reach of a casual user.

Originally Posted by Taffy

Hi people! Get ready to kiss your build-related lag goodbye :bye:

1. Go into your C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf

2. Look for the following:

[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
# cycleup -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.

core=normal
cycles=3000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

3. Change cycles to 10000 like I did.

4. Play now or keep reading to see some more tweaks I've done......

5. Noone enjoys playing in a box, even if that is what its called

fullscreen=false

becomes
fullscreen=true

6. Bump DOSbox's allocated memory from 16MB to the max of 63MB

memsize=16

becomes
memsize=63

Happy constructing

Originally Posted by Olson

If you experience lag problems using dosbox, which i did, you can speed up the fps using ctrl+F12, you'll see on the title bar of dosbox how quick you made it, 12000 works well, and i use crtl+8 for frameskip and set that to 3.. goodluck!

So, thanks to those two guys!

Even with this, the game crashed when it tried to play the "winning" movie, but from that I remember, it wasn't that interesting anyway.

Thanks to the Abandonia folks for having this game around. I've got 3 copies of the game sitting around somewhere (Original shortly after it was released, Bargin Bin Windows 95 version and a PSX version I got as a gift) but I just couldn't get the Win95 version to work on my PC.