Use buttons on your monitor...

Mirek

I thought it might be somthing like that but no luck. I think it's to do with the Dosbox window itself and not the monitor.

uh, press the button on the left!

Does it happen when you are playing the game in a window?

I am getting a similar problem in full screen and windowed mode running on windows xp where it seems fine during dos mode but when I run my application it is centered low and wrapped around so that my edges are near the center of the screen and my center is at the edges. Any help?
Shane

Check to see if video modes are set using default refresh rates. Some video drivers like nVIDIA's ones allow you to do this (I have a nVIDIA card). I don't know how it is for ATi's Catalyst. Try running DXDIAG also and check the MORE HELP -> OVERRIDE value for video mode (60 for 60fps should be a "safe" value). So try putting a 60 in that box and check back.

I forgot to add that you should also try other video rendering modes under DOSBox config: you name it, surface, overlay, opengl, ddraw...

Fixed it, I reinstalled Dosbox seems to work ok now.

malcior wrote:

Fixed it, I reinstalled Dosbox seems to work ok now.

WHAT??
The DOSBox installer follows the KISS-principle - Keep It Simple Stupid. There is not munging with the registry, there is no attempt at detecting the video or sound hardware. All it do is to create a DOSBox-directory somewhere inside your %ProgramsFiles% directory, and copy the DOSBox files there. And it creates a few links in your Start->Programs folder.

So if re-installing fixed your problem, there is only 3 possibilites:

1. Your previous download was corrupt, causing a corrupt DOSBox to be installed. Not likely.
2. The installer made an error during the copying. Not likely.
3. You made a change to the configuration - a change you have forgotten about.

It would be interesting to see a comparison of your current DOSBox install with the previous install. You do not by any chance have a backup of your system from last week?

FYI, here are the MD5 checksums for a fresh install of DOSBox 0.63:

1c0737acb80183d539b32058c27147a55 *AUTHORS.txt
246aaf69a91703493b666f212a04f2d8d *COPYING.txt
3d1b61dbd82b983e44cfb7e9373fcf4bb *dosbox.conf
41b242cff61b8c87efe2673490239b648 *dosbox.exe
5259699f58a9c1f8b3c5cb4f103faad55 *INSTALL.txt
6a219f838bf25640e53a0dea68329deff *libogg-0.dll
749a2ad68ee85e17128b4bc2727e18d67 *libvorbis-0.dl
8ebd68e77401db04521c5534392479fc6 *libvorbisfile-
9e5409896f13fc97055232c1789f97ee5 *NEWS.txt
104516769d241a73b966b5b7de86cb8a55 *README.txt
11898025be759b322f30692f1b1bfb3ee2 *SDL.dll
1203359ef94e1ffc4167da148ff0f688bf *SDL_net.dll
1382f132ed58b722bcf146065c981098bf *THANKS.txt
149e2a095af4b3bfdd449a927a73c2a677 *uninstall.exe

*snigger*
*chortle*
*cackle*
WAaaaaaaaaaahahahaAhAHAHAHA! MiniMax, you so did not just ask someone if they had a weekly backup of their computer. How many people do you know that make weekly backups? Hell, how many people do you know that EVER back up?

Thanks for the good laugh, 😉

It happens to me when using a windowed mode or a full screen mode, I am using windows xp (which is one of the worst yet for tryin to work in dos, yay MS =). The alignment of the window is off for me about 50%ish. Anyone have any other ideas? I did try changing the refresh rates on my monitor to no avail.
Shane

skyork - does this happen when you just start DOSBox, or only after you run an application inside DOSBox?

only when I run my application inside of dosbox. When trying to run this same application from a boot from disk to dos (as xp doesn't have a reboot to dos feature) it won't run correctly but the screen position is ok. When in dosbox whether in full screen or a window the screen position is off but the application runs fine. Looks like I may have to go back to using the old 386 we have lying in the corner. the application by the way is an old programming language called "Viewdac" if anyone has any experiance with it. Thanks again for all your help. Shane

Shane, I can not tell you exactly what to do, but go into the dosbox.conf file and locate the entries for "output=" and "scaler=" and play around with the settings. You can also try the different full-screen settings in the sdl (link) section.