Hi champions,

I've just improved my Atreides campaign run time from 5 and a half hours to a 4:08:32, but had a weird slowdown and audio glitch towards the end and had to save, close and restart the game - the video (with the game restart timestamped) is here:

As there's no verification at the moment on Dune 2 runs, I wanted to run this past the community - is this considered a valid run? Despite the restart, would you consider this "one session"? It won't affect the leaderboards (I'll still be in 3rd place, since this run is still 12 minutes behind schemax in 2nd) but I'd still like to post it here as this run was a pretty big effort and achievement for me.

Restarting is not a problem for validation if you keep recording your run in one session. Feel free to submit your run.

I believe the problem you're having has to do with DOSBox cycles. You probably have "auto" cycles enabled? Go to DOSBox installation folder and open dosbox.conf -file with notepad or similar. Find the line with "cycles" and set it to "cycles=15000". Try how the game runs. You can increase cycles to 17000 and so on, if it seems too slow. Game speed is capped so you can't increase it beyond certain point by increasing cycles (not sure about the exact number). Only map scroll speed will be affected.

Hope you'll keep running and improving! :)

Awesome, thanks Eino (I think I've commented on your runs on Youtube before!) - I'll submit it today.

I'm already running it at a set 12k cycles, which is about the balance I've found I like for scrolling speed - it might be related to me screwing up fixing the copy protection, so for future runs I'll start with a fresh copy of the game and go from there. Hoping to do a new run sometime in the next few weeks :)