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First post, by Ebf18

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This has probably been reported before, so sorry if this is a repeat. I sometimes use Dosbox at work on my lunch break and I noticed that if I lock my desktop Doxbox crashes. I haven't tested this at my home computer because I'm not on a domain at home, just here at work so the system locks the desktop by itself after like 3-5 minutes of inactivity. Thanks

Reply 1 of 9, by MiniMax

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The system lock has nothing to do with being part of domain. It is a setting in your screen saver, so you should be able to try it at home.

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Reply 2 of 9, by Ebf18

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The system lock has nothing to do with being part of domain. It is a setting in your screen saver, so you should be able to try it at home.

True, I'll look into it once I get home.

Reply 3 of 9, by wd

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Locking might seriously screw up the timer, maybe pause dosbox before
leaving the pc.

Reply 4 of 9, by Ebf18

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Locking might seriously screw up the timer, maybe pause dosbox before leaving the pc.

I tried this just now and while it didn't crash, the Dosbox screen gets all messed up when you unpause it.

Reply 5 of 9, by wd

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update graphics card drivers, try different output= settings etc.

Reply 6 of 9, by Ebf18

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update graphics card drivers, try different output= settings etc.

Dosbox runs fine in this system, its when I paused Dosbox and locked the desktop that this happens, so not sure if video drivers have something to do with it.

Last edited by Ebf18 on 2007-10-05, 17:51. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 7 of 9, by wd

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well try it and see

Reply 8 of 9, by gulikoza

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overlay output?
I already reported this once...if screensaver is activated or desktop is locked, SDL_LockYUVOverlay will return NULL. DOSBox does not check for valid pointer before writing to overlay...

http://www.si-gamer.net/gulikoza

Reply 9 of 9, by ADDiCT

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Ebf18, open "dosbox.conf" in your DOSBox directory with a text editor, and look for the line starting with "output=" (near the beginning of the file). Try some of the values mentioned in the comment block above that line. I'm using "ddraw", because it works best on my system.