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Posted November 24, 2013
After loving Master of Magic, I been reading through this forum because I will start to play MOO or MOO2 soon. What I am trying to find is any method of tweaking the graphics and performance of these games, esp MOO1. There were a few good ways to make MoM a lot more playable. Is the same true for MOO and MOO2? Thanks!
Posted November 24, 2013
Neither are likely to pose performance problems because of the different structure of the map and how movement is handled. The only possible cause for slowness in MOO1 would be if the config defaults to a slow clock speed in DOSBox (I don't remember if this is the case).

I can't help with graphics overhauls in MOO1, but they really shouldn't be necessary in MOO2, which was a Win9x-era game and looks MUCH better than MOO1 or MOM as a result. (Okay, fullscreen on a really large monitor might look a bit pixellated, but switching to windowed mode would solve that.)
Posted November 24, 2013
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Garran: Neither are likely to pose performance problems because of the different structure of the map and how movement is handled. The only possible cause for slowness in MOO1 would be if the config defaults to a slow clock speed in DOSBox (I don't remember if this is the case).

I can't help with graphics overhauls in MOO1, but they really shouldn't be necessary in MOO2, which was a Win9x-era game and looks MUCH better than MOO1 or MOM as a result. (Okay, fullscreen on a really large monitor might look a bit pixellated, but switching to windowed mode would solve that.)
I ran in windowed mode, but the window is sooo small!
Posted November 24, 2013
In the case of MOO2 windowed, I don't think there's much that can be done about the window size within the DOSBox settings without causing other problems. MOO1 windowed does work with the scalers in the DOSBox configuration, however. normal2x and normal3x are both reliable options.
Posted November 24, 2013
Im frankly wonder about window size problems with moo2 in dosbox, as i never encountered anything like this on any machine i used for it. The only problem with it could be with slow PC, thus making the game itself rather slow too, but, its very playable in dosbox even on PC with less than 256 mb ram (with some frameskips added), and i guess thats quite rare configuration now. Just set a window itself more wide.
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