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Full and regular video problems

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First post, by lwc

Posted on 2005-07-17, 21:37

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Under the video card "Intel Extreme Graphics", Dosbox completly freaks out.
The two problems are:
1) The bottom picture also shows up on top - both in a regular and a full video mode.
2) The screen flips to the side - only in full video mode.

I've tried playing with all the video settings, but to no avail.
Actually, "fullfixed=false" at least solves the latter problem (but even in full mode, the bottom picture still shows up on top).

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Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-07-17, 21:39

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as you nicely pointed out it happends with a certain videocard. So maybe it's not dosbox freaking out, but the videocard ?

you could try replacing sdl.dll with the regular 1.28 version of sdl (www.libsdl.org)

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Reply 2 of 7, by robertmo

Posted on 2005-07-17, 21:46

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read the readme of the game, it is explained there how to make the game look correctly

Reply 3 of 7, by lwc

Posted on 2005-07-18, 08:53

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It may happen in a certain video card, but not in a certain game. It happens in all the games under that card.

I'll try switching the DLLs.

Reply 4 of 7, by lwc

Posted on 2005-07-18, 11:09

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sdl.dll v1.28 didn't make any difference.
So didn't ykhwong's Korean CVS build (BTW, AEP Emulation's site doesn't work).

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Reply 5 of 7, by CraigG

Posted on 2005-07-18, 11:49

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Get a decent Videocard.

Heck, even the Cheap Geforce 4 MX cards, are better than that Intel rubbish.

Athlon 64 3000+ stock
MSI NForce 4 K8N Neo Platinum
2Gb RAM
nVidia Geforce 6800GT stock clocks
SBLive! Platinum + Audigy ZS2 Drivers
WinXP Pro SP2

Reply 6 of 7, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-07-18, 15:35

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At the very least, make sure you're using the latest available drivers and DirectX version.

Reply 7 of 7, by lwc

Posted on 2005-07-18, 16:37

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First of all, it's not my own computer...
Secondly, robertmo was right! It was a specific game problem and I solved it by adding a special configuration line to the game's config file (as written both in its readme and even in DOSBox' comp_list).

This (specific) game still can't run in full screen though, but at least it's it works perfectly in a regular window.

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