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First post, by joecool

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Hi all,

I am experiencing a problem running DOSBox in full screen mode - I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. I couldn't find anything in the forum that described this particular problem.

DOSBox runs just fine for me in a window, but when I edit the DOSBox.conf file to set it to full screen mode, and restart DOSBox, the screen goes momentarily black, and then when the screen comes back the program has terminated. 'Alt + Enter' produces the same result. There are no error messages. It may not be relevant but I noticed when the screen comes back the mouse cursor is always in the very top left hand corner.

Here are my relevant DOSBox.conf file settings:
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=true
fullresolution=0X0

Here are my hardware/software specs:
DOSBox ver 0.63
WinXP Professional ver 5.1.2600
Dell Dimension 4550 / Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz w/ 512MB of RAM
Dell CRT monitor
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 (Driver version 8.1.9.8 )

Any ideas? I can manage with just a window, but the full screen option would be nice.

Reply 1 of 6, by DosFreak

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Try different output= in your DosBox.conf

Also try a CVS build in my signature.

Either gulikoza's or ykhwong's.

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Reply 3 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

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FullResolution=0x0 does indeed make sense. It means use the same resolution as desktop.

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Reply 4 of 6, by XulChris

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If that is the case, then it doesn't work here. Using 0x0 does *not* use my desktop resolution, and it places the dosbox offcenter on my screen. Whereas using 1600x1200 works fine and places dosbox in the middle of the screen.

Reply 6 of 6, by Qbix

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fullresolution=0x0 defaults to 1024x768 on non-windows systems
on windows dosbox can detect the size of the screen

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