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First post, by nunu

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Hello to all
I have a laptop with WIN10 home edition. Never had any problem with DosBox (last version) or DOSShell v1.9.
But since a month ago when i choose any game the DosBox windows appears but the screen maintains black with a warning that DOSShell is not responding.
Does any of you have or had this problem?

sorry if this is the wrong topic

Thanks a lot

Reply 1 of 2, by Jorpho

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I don't think I've heard of DOSShell before.
http://www.loonies.narod.ru/dosshell.htm

An obvious thing to try would be to make sure DOSBox works normally without DOSShell.

But if I had to take a wild guess, your graphics card drivers updated themselves and are now incompatible. The easy fix is to edit your DOSBox.conf to use output=opengl or output=openglnb instead of output=surface. I have no idea where you would set that option in DOSShell.

Reply 2 of 2, by konc

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Jorpho wrote:

I have no idea where you would set that option in DOSShell.

DOSShell doesn't have any sophisticated per-game configuration. It only launches dosbox, mounts the directory and runs the executable you've told it to run. So changing the .conf for dosbox as usual is enough. btw I'm also using DOSShell for its simplicity and portability and currently on Win10 x64, NVidia card and output=overlay it works ok.