Dungeon Keeper

What works

Installation, video playback, game plays smoothly. The shortcut of game is created properly.

What does not

Audio heavily stutters in-game, and moderately in the video. Reasons are unknown. Possible untweaked CPU settings inside DOSBOX?

Workarounds

What was not tested

Whole campaign - only 3 first missions

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

While it seems like a cheating from GOG to just sell DOS-version + runner, it may be considered official way of distribution, since original game has become an abandonware, although EA owns the trademark.

This "kind-of-official" release is shipped with DOSBOX, meaning, what it does not rely on Wine capabilities of running DOS/Win95 applications, but instead, this game is prone to bugs of DOSBOX running under Wine. Please refer to  http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5634 for more info.

As of time of writing this commentary, everything seems to be in order. Currently it is suspected what game errors are due to the way the game is emulated inside DOSBOX.

Not a trouble killer, but makes sound bearable with.

1. Open game's wineprefix with your favourite file manager, like Nautilus or such,
2. Move to the installation folder. In my case, it was $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/GOG Games/Dungeon Keeper,
3. Edit the dosboxDK.conf: memsize=64 (just to be sure it does not lag because of low ram), fulldouble=true (create this key after fullscreen=1, if it does not exist)
   
4. Run the game. The video now has only one hiccup (in the logo phase), and in-game music just skips, but it's not an abominable cacophony instead of audio anymore.

Audio problem needs more investigation, but it doesn't seem like an unsolvable thing anymore.

2015-07-07 Admin note: the following was extracted from user comments made in 2014 and may not be relevant to current Wine.

An Addendum to the notes above. Another setting that you need to adjust to fix the sound is the option for cycles. Cycles is set at 80000 by default. Dialing Cycles to cycles=20000 and cycleup to cycleup=1000 as well as cycledown=1000 seems to solve almost all skipping on the sound except when moving the mouse.

I also noticed that upping the blocksize to blocksize=8192 and the prebuffer to prebuffer=5000 seemed to clear up some more of the stutter on mouse movement.