I'm trying to get DOSbox to work on windows 98 second edition. Everytime I double click on it, I get this error message in the "DOSbox" window:
Error: Failed to create a rendering output
I've had this problem with 0.62, and still have the same problem with 0.63. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
-Jykro
IMHO it has absolutely nothing to do with W98SE, but with your graphic card (try to update drivers). Also try different output methods in DOSBOX.CONF (surface, overlay etc.). You may also try a different SDL.DLL.
Mirek
I'm certain that my video driver is up to date. And I took your advice and "fiddled" around with the 'dosbox.conf' file. Now I'm able to get the program to stay up the longest, but the window that I do all the typing in, like "mount d c:\... etc.", is completely black. The outputs that I use to get this are 'opengl' and 'openglnb'.
What would you mean by 'SDL.DLL'?
-Jykro
Is your DirectX version up to date? The latest version is 9.0c, and you can find your version by running DxDiag (Start->Run->DxDiag).
wrote:What would you mean by 'SDL.DLL'?
See the folder where you installed DOSBOX. There is a file SDL.DLL. Try to replace it by another version (search Internet or take it from an older version of DOSBOX).
SDL library has clearly problems with your graphic ... No idea why.
Mirek
Is DX9 supported under Win98/SE? I thought MS stopped supporting Win98 before DX9 came out...
wrote:Is DX9 supported under Win98/SE? I thought MS stopped supporting Win98 before DX9 came out...
W98SE is still supported by Microsoft (after some protests they extended that support - on 7 (?) years since the original product release).
W95 is not supported.
Anyway: DOSBOX does not need the newest DirectX (only ddraw output mode uses DirectX at all...).
Installing it is just one thing to try when he has problems with graphic...
Mirek
