Hi.
Ive got a problem that whenever I run a game through Dosbox the game view gets distorted.
What exactly happens is that the game gets shoved up into the top ritght corner and about 1/4 of the games view get hidde.
I run it in fullscren mode, and i have tried to change the resolution and colors but it oesen´t seem to help.
Good job, not telling us WHAT GAME IT IS.
Yes, it’s my fault.
..but it have happend to all games that I´ve tride to run.
So i guess the game doesn´t matter.
But for your sake Im especially trying to run Dreamweb
Originally posted by Kameli ..but it have happend to all games that I´ve tride to run.
So i guess the game doesn´t matter.
Unless you tried every game that was ever made for DOS on DosBox...it matters. Don't presume, you may think it will speed things up, but it doesn't.
Your problem appears to be similar to this person's...
Recommend you either wait for the next DosBox release, or try it with VDMSound (watch out for EMS memory problems).
Edit: corrected horrible typos...
Ok, I guess I have to run through my whole archive then to see what happens.
Thanks for the help anyway.
Luckily you guys comes with a warning label 😉
Originally posted by Kameli Ok, I guess I have to run through my whole archive then to see what happens.
Did you try running it with VDMSound?
BTW, unless you have an extremely potent CPU, I recommend you change your KEEPSMALL setting to TRUE. Those 2x Windows will gobble up resources...
wrote:Did you try running it with VDMSound?
BTW, unless you have an extremely potent CPU, I recommend you change your KEEPSMALL setting to TRUE. Those 2x Windows will gobble up resources...
That really bothers me... They should be able to do hardware scaling of some kind. I guess SDL doesn't support it?
Well, as far as I know, sdl uses directx on windows so it should support hardware scaling, maybe they don't
Iampiti
If I remember it correctly dosbox itself scales the image 2x
(i believe as sdl does that internal as well and we do it faster then sdl did)
Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!
It uses scale2x which isn't just a pixel doubler + filter.
Yes, it’s my fault.
I wasn't referring to scale2x, but rather the scaling done if you don't set keepsmall=false (maybe they're the same - I don't know because I always have keepsmall set to true). Also, the sound problems are a lot more irritating 😉 I'm almost ready to try the kX Project drivers (http://www.kxproject.com) to see if they run DOSBox better than the official Creative drivers.
Just wanted to update things: I tried the kX drivers and they don't have any of the sound problems in DOSBox that the Creative drivers had. DOSBox may be hard on the Creative drivers, but I blame Creative more for the resulting problems.
I.ve tried VMS but it tells med that I don´t have enough EMS to go around.
I have tried to change it to keepsmall=true but i still got the same problem.
Ummm... by the way, what is the CVS version?
Originally posted by Kameli I.ve tried VMS but it tells med that I don´t have enough EMS to go around.
You might have a motherboard-based EMS problem. Create a file named GO.BAT and edit it to contain the single command:
MEM /C >VDMSMEM.TXT
then run it with VDMSound (right-click and choose Run with VDMS), it should create a text file called VDMSMEM.TXT and report something like the following:[code]Conventional Memory :
Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
MSDOS 13184 ( 12.9K) 3380
KBD 3296 ( 3.2K) CE0
EMM 176 ( 0.2K) B0
HIMEM 1248 ( 1.2K) 4E0
COMMAND 3152 ( 3.1K) C50
FREE 112 ( 0.1K) 70
FREE 633984 (619.1K) 9AC80
Total FREE : 634096 (619.2K)
Upper Memory :
Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
SYSTEM 180208 (176.0K) 2BFF0
MOUSE 12528 ( 12.2K) 30F0
DOSX 34720 ( 33.9K) 87A0
FREE 256 ( 0.3K) 100
FREE 34336 ( 33.5K) 8620
Total FREE : 34592 ( 33.8K)
Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 668688 (653.0K)
Largest executable program size : 633712 (618.9K)
Largest available upper memory block : 34336 ( 33.5K)
4194304 bytes total EMS memory
4194304 bytes free EMS memory
20971520 bytes total contiguous extended memory
0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
16628736 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area[/code]Paste your results here. You might end up having to shut off some motherboard devices in order to create more "Upper Memory".
I have tried to change it to keepsmall=true but i still got the same problem.
Then it's apparently not related to 2x eating up resources.
Ummm... by the way, what is the CVS version?
That is an unofficial release. Disregard it. Try the new 0.60 release instead.
