Are you perhaps running Vista? Is the "capture" directory actually writable to the program? (Try running DOSBox with administrator rights).

No, I'm running XP, and I'm the only user. All 'administrator' rights are vested in me.

The directory should simply be in the DOSBox folder itself (try emptying it if it's not empty). And you may want to upgrade to DOSBox 0.70 just to rule out any bugs in the old version.

The directory 'capture' was, and is, in the dosbox folder and empty. And I've just upgraded to Dosbox 0.70, with exactly the same results. 'Can't open dir capture for capturing video' This time, I even let 0.70 install into Dosbox's default installation, in case it being in another path was somehow to blame. No luck. This is very odd...

What is your current/working directory when starting DOSBox?

I like to keep things simple, so, Dosbox is in a directory simply titled 'Dosbox', directly off the C drive (path C:\Dosbox). Though as mentioned, I did try the new install for 0.70 in the default directory as well (C:\Program Files\etc.). Neither location will open the capture folder, which is always in the Dosbox directory, right where the install puts it.

one more shot, how do you start Dosbox? If you drag'n'drop a game exe on the dosbox link, the directory of the game becomes the directory where dosbox wants to have a capture dir.

Weeeelll... as stated in the first post, I -did- try putting a 'capture' folder into the game directory as well, just to see if it was looking there-- didn't work. But you made me think of trying to manually mount the folder without drag'n'drop-- and lo, it -did- record! So, while that solves the problem of making a video, it doesn't explain why DosBox can't find the 'capture' folder anywhere when drag'n'drop is used to mount the game. Very strange. Well, so long as it works, I can manually type the mounting. Thanks!

I did kind of overlook that you wrote that. Sorry, but at least I got you onto the right track 😀

I asked:

MiniMax wrote:

What is your current/working directory when starting DOSBox?

Quizzie wrote:

I like to keep things simple, so, Dosbox is in a directory simply titled 'Dosbox', directly off the C drive (path C:\Dosbox). Though as mentioned, I did try the new install for 0.70 in the default directory as well (C:\Program Files\etc.). Neither location will open the capture folder, which is always in the Dosbox directory, right where the install puts it.

And exactly how does your answer relate to my question?