The "older steam game" that you are playing probably relies on DOSBox to run.

jmarsh wrote:

The "older steam game" that you are playing probably relies on DOSBox to run.

I’ll find out soon enough! Any suggestions on how to uninstall DosBox?

uninstall the game.

Qbix wrote:

uninstall the game.

I want to play the games instead of uninstalling them. Any advance for how to uninstall DosBox?

no, as the game needs dosbox to run.

Qbix wrote:

no, as the game needs dosbox to run.

I’m willing to take that risk.

If anyone could give me advice on how to uninstall DosBox it would be greatly appreciated!

The game bundles Dosbox to make it run. If you want to get rid of dosbox, get rid of thr game. It won't even run without Dosbox.

You could try to change the DOSBox settings to make it stop glitching out, instead of jumping straight to the nuclear option.

What is "console mode"?
What are these "older games"? List them.
What do you mean by "everything glitches"? If everything glitches then you are in a simulation and have other things to worry about.

Windows 8+ does not support DOS games anymore unless you are running 32bit Windows and are playing the few that can play in a window.

There is no "risk" the games will not work unless you use an emulator to play them. DOSBox is the arguably the best solution, the only other would be pcem. Currently everything else for Windows for DOS games is not worth using except for specific use cases.

The Alienware Alpha is a computer/console hybrid. It has desktop mode where it’s a normal computer and console mode that simulates an Xbox/PlayStation experience. Console mode is linked to a steam account so you buy the games in the store and scroll over to your library to play them once they downloaded.

When I bought the thing, the steam store didn’t have kings quest, or Torin’s passage or a few other games from my childhood. So I downloaded DosBox and bought a couple of games from GOG to play them when I was in desktop mode. To be honest, I don’t really play them because console mode is just way more convenient and I like using a controller only to scroll through games. I didn’t realize that until after owning the computer for a while.

Then the steam store gets the Kings Quest Collection, so I buy it. It’s now in my library on console mode and I can’t wait to play it. When I try to play it DosBox appears and screws it up.

I had somebody help me uninstall DosBox. I don’t know what they did but I can’t find a trace of a file anywhere on my computer that’s even related to DosBox anymore. But whenever I’m on console mode and try to load Kong’s Quest, DosBox pops up and everything glitches and goes to hell.

The other day, I bought the original Tomb Raider, tried to load it and DosBox popped up and glitched the whole thing up.

So now I fear that whenever steam gets a retro game in the store, I’m going to buy them and not be able to play them. I want to uninstall DosBox because I know I’m not going to be playing games on desktop mode, so I don’t have a use for it.

DosFreak wrote:

What is "console mode"? What are these "older games"? List them. What do you mean by "everything glitches"? If everything glitch […]
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What is "console mode"?
What are these "older games"? List them.
What do you mean by "everything glitches"? If everything glitches then you are in a simulation and have other things to worry about.

Windows 8+ does not support DOS games anymore unless you are running 32bit Windows and are playing the few that can play in a window.

There is no "risk" the games will not work unless you use an emulator to play them. DOSBox is the arguably the best solution, the only other would be pcem. Currently everything else for Windows for DOS games is not worth using except for specific use cases.

More than likely console mode is Steam Big Picture and the games that are using DOSBox on Steam are using an old version and aren't configured properly. If you don't want to bother with configuring them properly (assuming it's a DOSBox issue) then you need to contact Steam and/or the game publisher or developer.

If it's not big picture but some Alienware program then Alienware needs to test their program.

Stay away from DOS games on Steam. They usually use old DOSBox versions, default or wrong DOSBox configurations and other issues so if you don't want to configure them to run properly then you are SOL. If you are going to buy DOS games then buy them from GOG. While not perfect even there they are light years ahead of the games on Steam and can actually be contacted to fix the games.

Occasionally the lazy game devs\publishers will provide the GOG versions on Steam but they aren't updated as often like the GOG versions are.

So how do I uninstall DosBox? 🤣.

I would contact GOG and Steam: they sold you games that are inoperable on your supported franken-console.

Otherwise.. open a dispute with your creditcard company.

The steam games come with their own bundled dosbox in them and will use it to run.
If they cause issues with your system contact the game's support.
The fact that at some time you installed dosbox has nothing to do with those games and how they run and glitch.
Contact the game support, it is their problem.

keropi wrote:

The steam games come with their own bundled dosbox in them and will use it to run. If they cause issues with your system contac […]
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The steam games come with their own bundled dosbox in them and will use it to run.
If they cause issues with your system contact the game's support.
The fact that at some time you installed dosbox has nothing to do with those games and how they run and glitch.
Contact the game support, it is their problem.

I installed DosBox myself to run other games. I don’t play those games so I don’t care if I have DosBox anymore. It’s messing with other games, so I want to uninstall it and see if they work.

DosUnistaller wrote:

I installed DosBox myself to run other games. I don’t play those games so I don’t care if I have DosBox anymore. It’s messing with other games, so I want to uninstall it and see if they work.

You don't understand how this works. These games require DOSBox to run. The issue is that DOSBox is being misconfigured somewhere.

If you somehow surgically remove DOSBox from the game's files, attempting to run it will probably result in a "dosbox.exe not found" or something.

Dosbox is not installed. It runs as a portable executable.

When you launch your game that depends on dosbox, it calls the dosbox.exe with some arguments. To remove dosbox all you have to do is remove the executable.

If you don't play the game, then dosbox will have no effect on your system. Uninstalling the game and removing dosbox are functionally similar.

However, and excuse me for being accusatory, this smells like a troll post. So given all the information in this and other posts, I think you have all the information you need. If this still isn't clear to you now I don't think it ever will be.

Agreed! Locking the thread