These Modifications will increase your Star Wars Dark Forces Performance and Graphics

- OpenGL enables the Steam overlay
- openglnb is a "sharper" renderer than standard opengl and looks better if you're trying to replicate the look of the original
- 1600x1200 is the desktop resolution

Find your Config

Not thaaaat complicated, try to find the g ame in your Steam Folder:

[Your Steam directory]\SteamApps\Common\Dark Forces

For me it looks like:


Edit the file
You need to edit this file. If you do not know what you are doing, make a copy of that file (in case you brake it).

How do I open the file?
Ahm ... did you create a copy? Just saying.
Use notepad (++) or any Text-Editor.

When the title first came out, WASD was not a common control configuration. The default controls now use a simple, more modern layout.

W A S and D = Move Forward, Left, Backwards and Right
Spacebar = Jump
C = Crouch
Mouse 1 = Primary Fire
Shift = Run
CapsLock = Walk
E = Open/interact
R = Secondary fire
Tab = Map
Pgup & PgDn = Look up and Look down
F1 = P.D.A.
F2 = Nightvision Goggles
F3 = Cleats
F4 = Gasmask
F5 = Headlamp

By hitting Control + F1 you will open the DOSBox keymapper.
For example: if you want to change Secondary fire to X instead of R…
1) Click on the R key on the keyboard graphic displayed.
2) Click “Add” at the bottom of the screen.
3) Press “X” on your keyboard.
4) Click on “Save” at the bottom.

[taken from a post of BurtonJ]

If you are expierencing screen tearing or any other effect which is similar, you can try the following options:

Updates, people ... Updates!
Check your DoxBox Version - its alsways good to have the latest version.

DoubleBuffer
One option which can help to avoid screen tearing is to play around with the buffer settings. Depending on your config, it might not be active and you could try enabling it. It solves it for a lot of people - here is how its done.

1. Find the section about your screen settings. Usually its the place where you set the resolution and or the settings for fullscreen/windowed mode - it should have [sdl] as header.
As an example I will use the config i put in this tutorial.

Just add the following line to it - "fulldouble = true"
looks like this now:

It did not work :( - what else?
If this does not help you ... you'll face a bit more of testing and playing around with the config instead of playing the game.

CPU Cycles
The cycles usually are set to "auto". For most of the people it works perfectly but since you are reading this, you might be the 1 % for which it does not.
You can try setting you cycles manually but that is a lot of testing and might not even lead to a solution, I ll try to explain how to play with it.

Find the CPU settings - it looks like:
If you really want to play with it, there are three different modes - fixed, max and auto. Before adding stuff in here, you should start your game and try "Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+F12" to raise and lower the value.

If you want to edit cycles - try this:
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