sounds like a video card/driver problem

using the newest drivers available and haven't had trouble with anything else (WoW has actually goten 60fps at highest settings 1680x1050 which is a first).

Never tried DosBox with Windowsblinds before but that could be the culprit. I'd boot Windows in safemode and see if DosBox works fine there. If so then it's a video driver issue or some other software application like Windowsblinds that's causing the problem.

Well I know it's not Windowblinds because I've unloaded it (there's actually a command to just unload so it doesn't uninstall just unloads from the memory and system startup and all) and DOSBOX/ScummVM still do it. Apparently there are new drivers that came out less than a month ago for my Vid card I'll try those out now and report back. I REALLY want to get this fixed 🤣 I'm playin Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders on my laptop atm =D

Oh my gosh by golly (it's time for mistletoe and holly)! Changed drivers to 6.12 (was at 6.14 beta drivers) and it works fine. Haven't gone back to see how WoW/FEAR/HL2 work now but at least DOSBOX is workin great =) thanks guys

now if I could remember the keyboard command to turn on the mouse movement in Zak McKracken 🤣...It was something stupid and I lost my manuals (which sucks cuz the VISAs are in there too...I have Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion, Loom, and Zak McKracken on disc 🤣)

Shift+M nevermind heh

FREAKING crying out loud.

Turned off my computer around 3 (was working perfectly). Just got home...went to boot up a little Duke Nukem 3D. Doing it again.

Running 6.12 drivers (newest on Ati's site) and it's doing it once more. I'd love some official input about a possible reason this is happening. It's utterly ridiculous since it was working PERFECTLY once when the system F'd up, and once after reinstalling drivers. PLZ I need help here

EDIT: By the way I've tried other games it's not just duke nukem (multiple SCUMM games, few older kings quest and such)

Nobody's replying so bump I guess.

Still having this problem. About half the time when I boot up it occurs, the other half the time when I boot up it works perfectly.

> Nobody's replying so bump I guess.

I guess you'd better not do that again.

No need to bump here. If no one knows the answer then they won't reply.
*But* if it worked fine when you changed the drivers and it suddenly stopped working again, I don't think it's an issue with Dosbox. You *could* try the different outputs in dosbox.conf to see which one gives you problems.

but the thing is sometimes when I start it works completely fine (just now tried and it works great). Other times it hangs for 30-40 seconds whenever I start it, switch to/from it and another program, and close it. it's strange but there has to be a way to fix it. I thought maybe background programs but I closed pretty much everything yesterday and it still did it

Again, this is clearly not a dosbox problem but a problem with your computer and whatever program runs in the background. Dosbox just isn't that kind of program that sometimes runs like this and other times like that. If nothing changes on the computer dosbox always runs the same.

erm why is a guy who posted here in 2007 saying he's using nvidia 6x.xx drivers? theres far newer drivers availible

read his first post more closely 😀

Check Task Manager for any processes that run at 99% of CPU time. I have at least two items on my system that do that on occasions -- PlexTools and Microtek Scanner Finder, both are safe to kill and restart. There is also that mysterious behavior on ATI drivers that VirtualPC control panel can slow down OpenGL rendering in other apps by two orders of magnitude.
Also run some antivirus and Ad-Aware, never hurts.

It's been working fine now a few days. using Norton and nothing uses 99% resources except System Idle (which is normal). It has nothing to do with just my computer being slow. It's the way my computer interacts with DOSBOX only.

It's not your computer being slow, but most likely some background process and/or driver interfering with DOSBox.

The strange lag your experiencing is absolutely uncommon, I don't remember anyone here ever reporting that kind of problem.

You're not using any exotic hardware, so next time it happens you should try and kill any background app until DOSBox works properly to find out who's the culprit.

What about your Soundblaster drivers? I had some very strange problems with my SB Audigy Player card some time ago that could be solved with newer drivers.

Well I just reformatted my computer (tried cloning my C drive to a 320gb drive that I wanted to use as my main...and the cloning went very badly and messed up many system files so that Windows was usable, but video drivers went poof and couldn't be reinstalled, some audio drivers, few random drivers like monitor and keyboard, some other junk) and this time i'm not using norton 🤣 NOD32 all the way (same that I use on my laptop). Was working perfectly past few days, but now it'll be on a new install so should work great