I'm 99% sure the monitor has nothing to do with this issue!

Scorched Earth defaults to 320x400, which may make modern hardware panic. You want to change this to 320x200 first. edit SCORCH.CFG

I don't know if it will help, but maybe try using the VGA monitor connection instead of DVI, I had to do this for another old ms-dos game called "STUNTS" it was starting with black display and hanging, similar to what you had, and i switched from DVI to VGA and it worked. That was a while back when i was using my Geforce4 in pci though.. now that i use the Rendition Verite, which only has VGA, i haven't found a game black out since then.

Just thought I'd share.

leileilol wrote:

Scorched Earth defaults to 320x400, which may make modern hardware panic. You want to change this to 320x200 first. edit SCORCH.CFG

I have tried that also but didnt work here.

kithylin wrote:

I don't know if it will help, but maybe try using the VGA monitor connection instead of DVI, I had to do this for another old ms-dos game called "STUNTS" it was starting with black display and hanging, similar to what you had, and i switched from DVI to VGA and it worked. That was a while back when i was using my Geforce4 in pci though.. now that i use the Rendition Verite, which only has VGA, i haven't found a game black out since then.

Just thought I'd share.

Its connected with VGA D-SUB, There was no DVI on that old graphics cards.

ah.. not sure then, when i started out with my dos gaming computer i had a geforce4 pci originally which had dvi, which didn't work well with some games.