Hmmm.... Compatibility mode shouldn't do anything to DOSBox. Tried disabling your anti-virus?

What do that error report say?

What if you start a CMD-window and start DOSBox from the CMD-prompt?

MiniMax wrote:

Tried disabling your anti-virus?

You mean, XPSP2 thinks DOSBox is a virus? 😵

Man That Was Really Quick reply 😀

disabling anti-virus didnt do anything it still closes
and running from a CMD window didnt do anything also
i forgot to mention that the status window opens up with

CONFIG:Loading settings from config file dosbox.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32

Then It Crashes

Tried different versions of DOSBox? You can have several version of DOSBox installed without problems 😀

By Tried diferent versions was that i uninstalled one and installed a different version

but yes you can run multiple versions of dosbox at any time with out problems at least i have before

What if you start DOSBox from a CMD prompt?

Try to do a

C:> set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib
C:> dosbox.exe

i just tried that and it still doesnt work

im gonna try to reinstall my gfx driver that might fix it

Yes, also check your directx installation and the graphics acceleration.

try in the configfile:
joysticktype=none

well reinstalling the gfx driver kinda fixed it but i think i need to reinstall windows because i am getting display distortion now

and its happening on everything even windows desktop
so hopefully reinstalling windows fixes it
because i dont want to be forced into buying another new gfx card

sorry for the double post

i forgot to thank all of you for your help So
Thankyou Everyone for all the help you have given me 😀