I've been very happy with 0.65, so when I heard of the new version, I got it immediately.
But every time I try to start it up, it makes an attempt at loading the configurations, and then crashes. I've tried modifying dosbox.conf, updating DirectX, and even reading a few online tutorials, but nothing works. What's going on?
(P.S. Computer stats- Windows XP Home Edition, SP1, HP Pavilion a400y, Pentium 4 CPU, 260GHz, 504MB RAM)
No, actually it depends on the SDL version. <1.2.10 defaults to directx,
1.2.10 and above default to windib. As the windib driver is slower and
has bad keyboard input dosbox forces directx for >1.2.10 as well,
so it matches the old behaviour.
Still it's something to try with weird crashes.
One maybe related issue...
Trying to force windib with SDL_VIDEODRIVER and having output=ddraw will only show blank screen. It's funny cause output=surface works with windib. Log:
1SDL_Init: Starting up with SDL windib video driver. 2 Try to update your video card and directx drivers! 3CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file dosbox.conf 4MIDI:Opened device:win32 5Failed to create ddraw surface, back to normal surface.
I have no idea why it would then fail to create the surface 😕
I have the same problem, however I have a 500Mhz G3 iBook 192 MB RAM OS X 10.3.9
I am not particularly experienced with editing config files (though I understand the basics), and was also hoping someone might know the mac-specific settings I need to fix.
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gulikoza wrote:One maybe related issue...
Trying to force windib with SDL_VIDEODRIVER and having output=ddraw will only show blank screen. It's […] Show full quote
One maybe related issue...
Trying to force windib with SDL_VIDEODRIVER and having output=ddraw will only show blank screen. It's funny cause output=surface works with windib. Log:
1SDL_Init: Starting up with SDL windib video driver. 2 Try to update your video card and directx drivers! 3CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file dosbox.conf 4MIDI:Opened device:win32 5Failed to create ddraw surface, back to normal surface.
I have no idea why it would then fail to create the surface 😕
The DOSBox status window showed up with its "CONFIG: Using default settings. Create a ........" message, and immediately after Windows put up a dialog: dosbox.exe has encounted a problem and must be terminated. And I was offered to send an error-report to Microsoft.
I tracked down all the SDL-files that my from-the-sources-version installed, removed them, and installed the pre-compiled version. Worked. Removed the working version, recompiled my own version, installed, and got the same problem.
I then discovered the test-programs that comes with SDL. None of them crashed.
I tried starting DOSBox with different variations of DOSBOX_SDL_OUTPUT=xxxxx, but I still got the same crash.
Only when I started it with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib wouild my DOSBox start up with my from-the-sources version of SDL-1.2.11.
So now I ask you gentlemen: What can I have done wrong? Any compile flags that I need to set when compiling SDL? Any debugging flags I should try to set when compiling DOSBox?