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First post, by dagsby

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# Motherboard - AN8 32X
# Processor type and speed - AMD athlon 64 X2 4600+
# Amount and type of RAM - 2048 Mbytes DDR2 (2 cards of ram)
# Video board w/ RAM amount and type - 2x NVidia 7900 GT/GTO (in SLI) (no idea sorry)
# Sound board - Creative SB! live
# Operating system - Windows XP
# Game name (and version, if applicable) - Daggerfall? (the game i tried before it broke...)
# Description of problem (be detailed: saying "it's jerky" doesn't help, saying "the player sprites seem to be jerky when I'm pressing any of the arrow keys" does) - BELOW
# Reproducibility of problem (always, only once, always but only on a specific level, etc.) - Every time
# Sound mode used - unchanged
# Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution) - unchanged
# Version of emulator (for VDMSound, probably 2.0.4 or 2.1.0; for DOSBox, 0.58+) - who knows for Dosbox 0.72
# Steps already attempted to solve the problem - uninstalled and reinstalled Daggerfall. Uninstalled and reinstalled Dosbox 0.72, Uninstalled and reinstalled Dosbox 0.71

Now that that is sorted (hopefully i have not forgotten anything)
The problem is that when i load up dosbox it does not seem to load properly. Instead of the usual text (as in the pic below)
(http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001196827700465574 is a different image incase the one i attached does not work)
it loads to a black screen without any text at all.
I have never had this problem before on this pc, as i only reinstalled dosbox today to have another go on an old game called Daggerfall (best game ever?)
Now the first time i loaded dosbox it loaded up normally, and i tried to mount and run daggerfall but it failed. So i just thought i had forgotten the code to load it (i used fall.exe z.cfg incase that is important), and this is when it began to load the black box and so my problem began.
Any help would be much appreciated

Dags

edit: - I have just found something wierd. If i print screen and then paste the image into paint then the text that is not there (or should be there) appears in the printout, picture to explain added also.

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  • Filename
    helppic.png
    File size
    21.3 KiB
    Downloads
    107 downloads
    File license
    Fair use/fair dealing exception
  • normal.JPG
    Filename
    normal.JPG
    File size
    32.85 KiB
    Views
    855 views
    File comment
    how it normally loads?
    File license
    Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 1 of 1, by eL_PuSHeR

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dagsby:

I have converted your huge 1,8MB helppic image to PNG (< 22 KB). Next time you are posting some pics, I advise you using some lossless format as GIF or PNG. BMP normally uses RLE (not very efficient) or no compression at all, while JPEG is intended for photographic images and is LOSSY, that is, the decompressed image is not the same as the original and you get some anomalies with text, namely artifacts.

[MOVED, btw]

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