Yes, this is happening in fullscreen mode with the mouse locked to the screen and with the emulated mouse cursor.

It's actually two different but related glitches with two different games. Raptor: Call of the Shadows -- In fullscreen mode, if I skip the introductory sequences by repeatedly hitting enter without touching the mouse, and then click the left mouse button on "New Mission", the mouse cursor jumps to …

Oh.

I'm curious.

If you're using a Logitech dual action gamepad, you need to press the button on the bottom left in the middle of the pad. A little red light will glow and you can now use the digital pad. If it's not a Logitech pad then I have no idea.

I figured it out. Hot keys were turned on, and combinations of ctrl, alt and arrow keys made the screen flip. I just had to turn off hot keys. D'oh.

If emulating these games requires so much CPU power, you might as well just buy an old PC for $50 (or given away) and play it on that.

Okay, I set the output to ddraw, booted up "Rise Of The Triad" again, and in a few moments it bugged out and flipped the display again. I haven't tried unchecking "enable rotation" yet, because I figured that switching to ddraw would solve the problem, but I guess not. I wonder if keeping rotation …

Also, do you think that having your directory for dos games in your root directory (C:\OLDGAMES\) would contribute to this kind of crash? I've read some stuff in forums about how it's better to put this directory in your user directory in Vista. But I don't know if that would make any difference.

Thank you. I will give those suggestions a try.

When I play a game using Dosbox it runs fine for a few minutes and then it crashes with the screen turning black. The worst part is that the crash screws up my display, setting it to a low resolution 8-bit color mode with everything rotated 90 degrees. Rebooting doesn't fix it either. I have to go …