When I play most Sierra games and some Legend games a small portion of the right side of the screen wraps around to the left side. This happens with both ver 0.60 and 0.61 of DOSBox. Other games and apps run properly.
Which games (names)?
Mirek
Sounds as though the refresh rate for the monitor is changing if the screen is wrapping round. Do other games appear correctly? As Mirek says, which games, and what resolution are they running in?
all king's quest series, all quest for glory series, all space quest series, gateway I, gateway II, all leisure suit larry series, spellcasting series...most other games run normally.
As for resolution, my win screen resolution is 1152x864, none of these games allow you to set resolution in-game.
your monitor has buttons. use them.
My monitor has many buttons, it also and a big glass window, a neat power light, and a cord that makes it look like it has a tail. Any other suggestions?
use the ones that adjust shape and position of the display
Thats not the problem. I tried it anyway, just for the hell of it, but it had no effect.
No suggestions eh?
The wrap around occurs even if I run the game in a widow instead of full screen mode. I’ve tried messing with the screen options in the config file with no luck. Since I didn’t find any other posts about this problem in the forums I’m assuming that it’s got something to do with my system. Aside from the autoexec section and the screen options my DOSBox config file is default. Only screen option I changed was setting full screen to true. In autoexec, all I have done is mount some drives and load a generic mouse driver.
Why do you tell us your dosbox settings... Just set it to default and check how it works. Tell us something about your system too.
I briefly tried Leisure Suit Larry 2 and 3 in CVS and the screen seems ok to me. I did not try it in 0.61.
Mirek
System Info:
Motherboard: ASUS P4P 800
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 512 DDR
VID Card: ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB AGP
Sound Card: Creative Audigy 2
OS: WinXP Pro SP1
As for the DOSBox config, like I said in previous post, I only changed 4 things in the config file. I set fullscreen to true, which shouldn’t affect anything because this problem also occurs in window mode. I changed the CPU cycle speed, which I’ve since changed back with no effect. I mounted the drives necessary to install and run games, those can’t be removed or the games won’t run at all. The last thing I did was load a generic mouse driver because some games needed one for the mouse to function. I removed the mouse driver and problem still occurs.
I cant offer any help, but I found this post because I was searching for a solution to the same problem. When I play QG1 (remake) the screen wraps off the left side of the monitor.
As I understand it, DOSBox uses OpenGL to display the screen. It seems likely you have an OpenGL problem, although I have no explenation why it should happen only with Sierra Games. Is it possible you submit a screendump of a DOSBox window running a Sierra game having this problem?
JAL
