First post, by Robbbert
I've recently started porting my favourite DOS games (mostly FPS) to my fairly modern Windows 10 machine, using Dosbox where needed, with varying degrees of success.
Most games run perfectly, a few have flickering on the top of the stats window, but Powerslave just won't run.
I also have an older Windows 7 machine, and Powerslave works perfectly with the same version of Dosbox. But when I copied over the files and settings to Windows 10, suddenly there's a major issue.
Normally when you complete a stage, a scrolling area map shows, it scrolls up, until it reaches the next town (which is the next stage).
But on Windows 10 it starts to scroll then shudders to a halt, effectively freezing the game. The smoke still rises, the music still plays, but the game won't progress. If I Alt-Enter it moves a little more. If I keep doing that then eventually it gets to where it should go to, and then the game continues. I've tried different renderers, different cycles, these make a small difference but none fix it.
As I say, it runs 100% on Windows 7, what suggestions do you think I could try? Do I need to list out the dosbox.conf file? Dosbox version is 74-2 (GOG version) - I use the "-t overlay" option which doesn't exist in normal Dosbox 74-3.