Not illegal ones right? No. Either abandon-ware, share-ware, or games I actually bought back in the day. I fail to see how that question has anything to do with my issue though. edit: Ok, that suggestion stopped it from freezing my system, but without the main window I'm not sure how I'm supposed …

lightmaster wrote: DO you have dos games? Yes of course. Dosbox wouldn't be much use to me otherwise.

I assume you're using the official DOSBox 0.74. Do any of the other commonly-available builds react differently? You can try setting the environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy before starting DOSBox. (I assume you know how to do that.) That will cause DOSBox to not draw its main window at all. …

This isn't on a tablet, is it? Often people have problems running DOSBox on a tablet, though even then the symptoms are entirely different from what you describe. In that case the quick and easy solution is to plug in a mouse, odd as it sounds. Does that make any difference? Nope Desktop PC. SYSTEM …

No one has ever described a problem quite like this here before. All I can suggest is updating your video card drivers. Drivers are up-to-date. There is no reason to use windows 10, all it has it dx12, of which there are really just three dx12 only games. Be that as it may, that's what I have right …

Also, I've noticed no other system instability. But have you been running other games? Does ScummVM work? Modern games work fine. I'd never heard of ScummVM, but I just downloaded it and it works fine in Windowed mode or fullscreen mode. Keyboard and mouse input work fine. I can play a game fine …

Tried both. Problem persists. Also, I've noticed no other system instability.

I just installed Dosbox 0.74 on my Windows 10 home 64 bit and when I run it the first dosbox window appears fine, then the actual command prompt window attempts to open, then all my monitors stop receiving and my keyboard freezes. Any audio playing in the background continues to do so, so the whole …