Traced a major problem to one of my hard drives after another reinstall...damn thing went bad, and was freezing my system up on bootup so I disconnected it and everything is working fine. Whatever the problem was that dosbox had now seems to be resolved.

Yeah, it's another "new" issue, haven't had it before this reinstall...I'm gonna research it and see what I can come up with.

DirectX is current, as is everything else. Lemme give you a play by play here... I click on the DOSBox icon, and the status window pops up, saying it's loading settings from DOSBox.conf, etc. My whole system halts at this point. My CPU usage surges to 100% during this process, and after about ten …

Ok...that opened up a whole other can of worms. My system won't boot in safe mode for some reason, keeps rebooting after loading mup.sys (an infamous driver, from what I hear). Anyhow, directdraw and direct3d are both enabled, I did the little tests on the dxdiag, everything seems to be working fine …

Ok...hardware accel is maxed, where would I check the direct3d and directdraw settings? I use Nvidia 7300 gs graphics card, and it's set for max quality, which is the way it has always been, even when I wasn't having this issue. Which output options would you recommend? Keep in mind that once I have …

I'm having a bit of a problem. I just reinstalled Windows (XP sp2, all up to date with updates and what not), and everything is working well. Except DOSBox. For some reason, when I load it up it has a biiiiiiiiiiiig pause. It ties up my cpu in a major way, causes my whole system to pause for a good …