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Arena - The Elder Scrolls - Bethesda (1994)
Tested By: Finster
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runnable - playable - supported
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DOSBox version: 0.70 (supported)
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runnable - playable - supported
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DOSBox version: 0.65 (supported)
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runnable - playable - supported
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DOSBox version: 0.63 (supported)
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runnable - playable - supported
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DOSBox version: 0.61 (supported)
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runnable - playable - supported
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DOSBox version: 0.60 (supported)
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runnable - playable - supported
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DOSBox version: 0.58 (supported)
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It works, but... (2007-05-21 23:05) |
Enharioth
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after several attempts, Arena runs in an acceptable way.
I'm using the Dfend front-end, with 20'000 cycles and a dynamic cpu core.
The problem is that music doesn't work well, it's not continuous, sometimes fully stopped but few seconds.
How can I set up the Sound Properties to make music works good? thanx!
p.s. sorry for my errors of grammar, but I come from Italy :P |
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Arena Installation Problem (2007-04-09 15:21) |
Lord Voldemort
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On the installation instructions (http://www.elderscrolls.com/tenth_anniv/Arena106%20Setup.pdf),
Eevrything works until I get to step 11, and it opens it's new window, there's no prompt that starts. A window that looks like this (http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q34/mew159/DOGWindow.png)
starts up. |
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problems with black screen on startup (2006-03-28 17:51) |
TempeTerra
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DK, I had the same problem running on DosBox 0.63 on Win2K. By accident I discovered that how you mount the directory seems to make a difference. First, in DosBox I was typing "mount c e:\arena" (because that's where I installed it to), but I was getting the black screen problem you describe. The next time I ran it I typed "mount e e:\", then changed to e drive, "cd arena" then "arena" which works for some reason. My suggestion: don't mount the arena directory directly, mount the drive it's on and CD to where you want to be. Hope that helps. Sorry if that's hard to read, what I wouldn't give for some white space... |
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oh, and full detail (2004-10-27 08:59) |
Mac
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Forgot to mention that I'm running the game at full detail level. (Sorry for the poor formatting above, didn't realize whitespace would be removed) |
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Runs nicely (2004-10-27 08:58) |
Mac
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Running 0.62
Output - opengl (have also used ddraw, but it dies if the screen gets pulled away -- failing of DirectDraw API from Microsoft)
CPU - dynamic
Cycles - 30,000
Frameskip - 0
Scaler - normal2x
These settings hover my CPU usage around 93% while running the game. The machine in question is a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz. I can't help but think that setting cycles to 150,000 (5X higher than my settings) would swamp any machine available... Motion and action are fluid, at least as fluid as any machine I actually ran the game on when it came out...
This runs quite smoothly for me. The main things I've found for accelerating _all_ games under DOSbox, but especially 3D games, is to make sure you are NOT using "surface" as your output. Any of the other outputs (overlay, opengl, etc) will provide a factor of 2 speed increase. Similarly, since 0.62 has improved dynamic cpu support, that appears to grant another 2X speed increase.
Very cool, guys! |
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and.. (2004-08-22 17:50) |
HeX
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I also forgot to mention that lowering the Detail setting in the game will GREATLY improve the speed and sluggish movements. I have it set to a quarter of the Detail bar which is just perfect. |
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Compatibility statistics (3318 games in database)
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DOSBox 0.73 (373) |
6 (1.61%) |
8 (2.14%) |
7 (1.88%) |
352 (94.37%) |
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DOSBox 0.72 (692) |
39 (5.64%) |
21 (3.03%) |
23 (3.32%) |
609 (88.01%) |
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DOSBox 0.71 (139) |
21 (15.11%) |
5 (3.60%) |
7 (5.04%) |
106 (76.26%) |
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DOSBox 0.70 (938) |
21 (2.24%) |
13 (1.39%) |
26 (2.77%) |
878 (93.60%) |
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DOSBox 0.65 (712) |
35 (4.92%) |
27 (3.79%) |
36 (5.06%) |
614 (86.24%) |
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DOSBox 0.63 (905) |
74 (8.18%) |
43 (4.75%) |
44 (4.86%) |
744 (82.21%) |
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DOSBox 0.62 (391) |
54 (13.81%) |
24 (6.14%) |
27 (6.91%) |
286 (73.15%) |
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DOSBox 0.61 (996) |
86 (8.63%) |
57 (5.72%) |
66 (6.63%) |
787 (79.02%) |
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DOSBox 0.60 (767) |
109 (14.21%) |
65 (8.47%) |
72 (9.39%) |
521 (67.93%) |
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DOSBox 0.58 (1140) |
263 (23.07%) |
14 (1.23%) |
19 (1.67%) |
844 (74.04%) |
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