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 xp sp3,
core2 t5500,
intel gma950 graphics
thanks for your help.
Update your graphics card drivers and directx installation.
reinstalled directx. driver is up to date. still nothing
Does dxdiag report success for your input devices? Any strange joystick/mouse/keyboard attached?
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.
no success for dxdiag.
Guess your directx is broken then if dxdiag doesn't work.
Either way try some other sdl applications/games from libsdl.org
Old error 😀
http://niobium.mine.nu/~sunrice/ithp.cgi?chan … 31124&display=1
Mabye touchpad drivers are interfering?
I remember having an issue with Touchpad drivers and Vmware on NT4.
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?
You can try asking on the SDL mailing list, since it seems to be a general
problem with your system peripherals/setup and SDL.
Had the same problem with an XP SP3 Dell laptop. Updating DirectX didn't help either, and dxdiag also failed to enumerate DirectInput. So I rebuilt SDL without DirectX support and everything works. Extract the attached SDL.DLL over the one in the DosBox directory, and make sure you set the video config of DosBox to anything non-"direct".
Did you try "SET SDL_VIDEODRIVER=WINDIB" ? I think it also has an effect on SDL's use of DirectInput, based on a few cases where it appeared to, but don't know if it will help with this problem.
That should work too.
