First post, by the cranky hermit
Here's my problem. Whenever I start any DOS game, the game just freezes. Most games just show a black screen, so it's hard to tell what happened. A good example is King's Quest II. When I load the game, it just shows the logo and Lego Graham just stands there. He doesn't walk to the middle of the screen and drop his hat, he just stands there. No cheesy Greensleeves music, nothing happens when I push enter or escape. Just a frozen screen. All I can do is Alt+Tab, and manually shut down the process from Windows. This happens in every single DOS game I've tried.
This is not the first time it's happened to me. The last time, I isolated the problem to my AGP drivers. I fixed the problem by uninstalling them. And the next time I had to reformat, I didn't install the AGP drivers. Everything worked fine, and my modern 3D games didn't suffer any performance loss.
But just recently, I had this problem again. I haven't installed any AGP drivers, and there are none to uninstall. It's been a while since I tried to play a DOS game, so I can't just trace back what I've done since then. I really don't want to format my hard drive right now. What else can I do?
And also, I don't have this problem when I boot in safe mode. But I have all kinds of other problems, such as no sound, which you'd expect in safe mode.