From the DOSBox homepage: "Some default settings have been changed in this one so be sure to update your configfiles and read the readme"

Did you create a new config file?

It came with a new one for some reason.

Maybe your download was corrupted? Uninstaill, dowload again, and re-install.

How about deleting the dosbox.conf - or rename it - and see if it works like that.

No good. 🙁

Try different output=xxxx modes.

Try a different SDL.DLL

Nothing...

Try setting the environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib
and update your graphics card drivers.

You'd think with a 260Ghz processor he wouldn't have a problem.

wd : didn't DOSBox from 0.65 on do that automatically?

I did have DOSBox 0.70 crash on me once by setting the windib value though. But that also happend to me with 0.65 though. Not on my desktop.

D.O.G. currently removes that value if a DOSBox 0.65, 0.66 or 0.70 version is run.

Erik.

No, actually it depends on the SDL version. <1.2.10 defaults to directx,
1.2.10 and above default to windib. As the windib driver is slower and
has bad keyboard input dosbox forces directx for >1.2.10 as well,
so it matches the old behaviour.
Still it's something to try with weird crashes.

I just found the problem- the DirectDraw Acceleration was turned off for some reason. Thanks for the help, guys. 😀

heh. Wow. Haven't seen that error with DosBox for a long time. Thanks for posting back.

Funny, that causes crashes? Good to know.....

One maybe related issue...
Trying to force windib with SDL_VIDEODRIVER and having output=ddraw will only show blank screen. It's funny cause output=surface works with windib. Log:

1SDL_Init: Starting up with SDL windib video driver.
2          Try to update your video card and directx drivers!
3CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file dosbox.conf
4MIDI:Opened device:win32
5Failed to create ddraw surface, back to normal surface.

I have no idea why it would then fail to create the surface 😕

I have the same problem, however I have a 500Mhz G3 iBook 192 MB RAM OS X 10.3.9

I am not particularly experienced with editing config files (though I understand the basics), and was also hoping someone might know the mac-specific settings I need to fix.

err..What games were you planning on playing in DosBox on that 500mhz G3?

Railraod Tycoon Deluxe, Colonisation, MOO, Scorch... They all work fine with a frameskip of 2 or 3 😁

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One maybe related issue...
Trying to force windib with SDL_VIDEODRIVER and having output=ddraw will only show blank screen. It's funny cause output=surface works with windib. Log:

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1SDL_Init: Starting up with SDL windib video driver.
2          Try to update your video card and directx drivers!
3CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file dosbox.conf
4MIDI:Opened device:win32
5Failed to create ddraw surface, back to normal surface.

I have no idea why it would then fail to create the surface 😕

I have been busy trying to get my own MSYS/MinGW build of DOSBox-0.70 to work. Initially I got my self-compiled dosbox-0.70 to work with a pre-compiled SDL-1.2.11 from http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.2.1 … -mingw32.tar.gz. Then I decided to have a go using a locally compiled version from http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.11.tar.gz. Didn't work 🙁 🙁

The DOSBox status window showed up with its "CONFIG: Using default settings. Create a ........" message, and immediately after Windows put up a dialog: dosbox.exe has encounted a problem and must be terminated. And I was offered to send an error-report to Microsoft.

I tracked down all the SDL-files that my from-the-sources-version installed, removed them, and installed the pre-compiled version. Worked. Removed the working version, recompiled my own version, installed, and got the same problem.

I then discovered the test-programs that comes with SDL. None of them crashed.

I tried starting DOSBox with different variations of DOSBOX_SDL_OUTPUT=xxxxx, but I still got the same crash.

Only when I started it with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib wouild my DOSBox start up with my from-the-sources version of SDL-1.2.11.

So now I ask you gentlemen: What can I have done wrong? Any compile flags that I need to set when compiling SDL? Any debugging flags I should try to set when compiling DOSBox?