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DOSBox SVN Daum, even though it's no longer being updated, is still my favorite version of DOSBox with a feature set unrivaled by any other variant--a windowed mode GUI so I can mount drives and configure things with the mouse, integrated MUNT, raised maximum memory, partial CONFIG.SYS support and emulation of esoteric hardware, and even a 3Dfx mode that's good for novelty even if it's unplayably slow on my Ryzen 5. However, in the past few days (possibly after the latest round of Windows updates?), it has abruptly started malfunctioning. In DOS games the mouse jumps at random in the direction of travel, making games like Doom and Quake unplayable. Descent has a mouse cap so it's still playable, however Descent II has a lot of slowdown even at 320x200 resolution and cycles 200000 (which used to be a bit too many cycles unless I was playing at 640x480), and it's started crashing consistently in a level set I've previously played all the way through in SVN Daum. Does anyone else use this build and if so, have you had similar experiences? I've tested DOSBox 0.74 very briefly and the mouse seems to work properly, but I really don't want to go back. I even tried using another copy of DOSBox SVN Daum that I had not touched in around six months to confirm it wasn't just a bad .conf.