Does Battlespire take forever to load for you guys?

Post » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:59 am

Okay, so I finally got a hold of Battlespire after soo long, and I was having fun playing the game for a while until I took a break. I recently picked it back up and I am wanting to play it again but when I do, it crashes alll the [censored] time, and it takes FOREVER to load. I'm talking about 25 minutes at the least for it to load my save, and I've tried loading it directly from my hard drive and from the disk, and nothing seems to help it. Do you guys have this problem? (I'm sure you do, this game is hard as hell to get working properly)

Also, there's some DPMI error thingy that UESP says I should fix, but they were kind enough to not tell me how to fix it and I am entirely clueless, could anyone help me with that?
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benjamin corsini
 
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Post » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:10 pm

25 minutes it totally insane, indeed. Since I suppose you're running it in DosBox, have you tried to set the CPU to dynamic and/or increase cpu cycles? With dynamic cpu and about 100k cycles I could play it with little to no stuttering (provided you can give up the SVGA graphics mode).
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Post » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:46 am

(Why did that get edited, I already censored the word >_>) Yes, I've tried setting the CPU to dynamic and increasing the cycles. I can't even get past the first 3 scamps without the game freezing or crashing completely. I dunno what's up, because a while ago the game worked fine.
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Post » Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:48 pm

Firstly, what are your system specifications, mainly your CPU? Can you post your DOSBOX configuration so I can see what you're loading up with? And have you patched the game to 1.5?
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