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DOSBox does not completely ignore screensaver on Windows

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First post, by kumijorma

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I got this strange issue after re-installing my OS.

Every time I played a game on DOSBox with a gamepad, screensaver kicked in after 2 minutes. This had never happened before, and as far as I know, this has never been reported as an issue running DOSBox under Windows.

Today, I have finally figured out of what caused that. After making my OS more secure, I had also checked "Go back to welcome screen and continue" -option from Screensaver-options. This triggered DOSBox to ignore screensaver.

I suspect that this is a bug, but we need other people to confirm this, because I am currently using SVN Build and I have tested this only with Windows XP.

Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

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we don't touch the screensaver at all.
So if it activates or not is not controlled by us.
Mabye by SDL or windows itself

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 2 of 3, by kevinva

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I am using DOSBox on Windows 7 to run an old program that I prefer to run maximized. The screensaver doesn't seem to work when the DOS program is maximized. Is there a solution to this?

Thanks,
Kevin

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