Toonstruck runs incredibly slow

[FATAL]

So, surely all of you know the good old adventure game Toonstruck? Probably not, but I have a question about it and DOSbox

First of all, as the subject of this topic explains, my toonstruck runs incredibly slow when I play it with Dosbox. Dosbox is the only program I can get it working with, so that's the program I'm using. Most likely the slowness of this game is because of dosbox doesn't emulate my radeon 9600 well or something.
Anyways, when I start Toonstruck, I get this error message:
"ERROR: Could not configure linear access to video memory. Game will play slow.
Continue? (Y/N)"
And when I press Y, the game starts, but most of the time it runs damn slow. The sounds are just fine, so that's not probably the problem, it's the video memory in my opinion. Does anyone here have some solution to this problem?

Also when I play Strife (those are the only 2 games I've tried Dosbox with) It runs also really slow. It's probably because of the slowness Dosbox emulation.


Both of these problems are likely because of the slowness of Dosbox, but I'm not sure about Toonstruck though. Is there any way to speed up Dosbox?

I tried to increase Cpu cycle to 8000 for both games, and it only helped Strife a bit. Still it's not playable.
For Toonstruck the change was minimal.

I appreciate any help I can get.

[CheapAlert]

Well Duke3D was certainly playable on my 1Ghz

http://www.planetquake.com/gargoyle/dukebox.jpg

[FATAL]

Oh bummer, and I have this 1,5 ghz comp...


I guess this needs some more investigation to see what actually slows my games down when I use DOSbox.
At least it's not the sounds that cause it, so it must be some other case here.

[CheapAlert]

Try changing surface to overlay in the conf file, it'll make it faster because it'll use the hardware video buffer when used in a window.

Also don't do "dynamic" or "full" cpu core it'll make things slower.

One bad thing about DOSbox is that it doesn't show the characters in LOTR2 at all. WERE ALL INVISBLE

[The Undertaker]

I haven't confirmed this but I heard modern video cards are dropping VESA support. I'd recommend using a DOS bootdisk (use one from here (http://www.bootdisk.com) if the XP one isn't good enough for ya) to see if XP is the problem (if you don't have a SB compatible sound card you won't get sound). If you're on NTFS you'll need this (http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm) or this (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/NTFSDOS.shtml).

[CheapAlert]

Actually it's just the Radeons that are missing VESA3 extensions, all the Geforces have 'em.

(i'm no nvidiot either, just stating a fact)

[The Undertaker]

ATI has a problem supporting old stuff. First, they don't even bother with paletted textures (I have a few games that won't run in D3D without it) then dropping this. I bet they'll get rid of the TnL unit next.