no independent driver for the touchpad, it runs with an OS driver. disabling it doesn't help. other sdl games didn't work as well. ideas?

Does dxdiag report success for your input devices? Any strange joystick/mouse/keyboard attached? no success for dxdiag. its a laptop so there's a touchpad.

reinstalled directx. driver is up to date. still nothing

I installed dosbox 0.74, and when i try to run it, it crashes. i got somehow to prevent the window from closing, and it says: "cant init sdl directinputcreate: undefined error" i tried to change the "output=" as recommended on the manual, and it didnt work. all drivers are up to date. my system is …