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First post, by Brondahl

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Hiya, I've recently got hold of a copy of MC1 and downloaded DOSBox to run it. I have got it to run fine in the small DOSBox windows - thanks to some very helpful comments on an earlier thread, Thank you - but when I try and put it too full screen several problem develop:

- When I get hit, and the program puts a red tint onto the screen evrything slows way way down.

- The red tint doesn't go away until you turn so that the program has to "recalculate the colour of that part of the screen - ie. the sky area of the screen will stay tinted red until I look at the ground.

- Whenever it tries to load anything - intro to the game, the start of a level, when you press Space bar to end a level, etc - the game siezes up, the screen gradually fades to blackness and notying happens, but if you then return to small screen mode, the game carries on with out any fuss - ie. it hasn't actually crashed, it just isn't displaying it properly in full screen mode.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Reply 1 of 7, by MiniMax

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And you run this on a big IBM mainframe attached to a 140" High Def plasma TV?

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Reply 2 of 7, by wd

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Yeh dosbox might have problems with fullscreen on those.

Reply 3 of 7, by Brondahl

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MiniMax wrote:

And you run this on a big IBM mainframe attached to a 140" High Def plasma TV?

Umm, is that supposed to mean ....
Yeah duh, of cours it's going to struggle!

Reply 4 of 7, by wd

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Just the question is whether your system is similar to that, or not.

Reply 5 of 7, by MiniMax

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Also... Read my signature and click on the nice link to how to ask questions.

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Reply 6 of 7, by Brondahl

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I'm running it on an HP Laptop

17" Screen
Vista Home Premium
2G RAM
NVIDIA 8400M Card

Anything else that would be helpful to know?

Reply 7 of 7, by wd

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With vista be sure to try different drivers.

What dosbox version are you using?