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First post, by Cohar

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Hey,

I searched the forum on this, but i didn't find anything:

When I run DOSBox Many colors are displayed as gray, that shouldn't be. While the colors fade in or out, they are often displayed correctly. Even black is displayed as gray. I attatched a screenshot of Civilization 1, which i try to play, but I don't think this is specific to the game, because as soon as I start DOSBox i have the same problem all through Vista.

This happened after doing a fresh install on Vista and selecting output=overlay, which is the only output setting that seems to work.

I think it might be Vista choosing the 256 colors for the palette not very smart. If that's the problem, using fullscreen should solve the problem, I think. But whenever I try to go to fullscreen mode (ALT+Enter or via dosbox.conf) DOSBox just completely crashes.

I've got up to date drivers for my Intel 945 Express graphics. I'll post a section of my dosbox.conf, too:
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1280x1024
windowresolution=1280x1024
output=overlay
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt
usescancodes=true

I hope you can help me out.

Thanks in advance

Cohar

Reply 1 of 5, by DosFreak

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Your using these drivers? v15.8.3.1504 Dated 6/26/2008

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_result … s=164&submit=Go!

If you think Aero is the issue you can either turn it off (easiest way for testing is to switch your desktop to 16bit color) or right-click on the DosBox shortcut, go to properties, compatibility and turn it off in there.

You can also try the XP video drivers if you don't care about Aero.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Cohar

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Thank you for your kind help.

I had downloaded those drivers before, but i can't install them. I think it's because i can only install IBM verified drivers on my Thinkpad, and v15.8.3.1504 is not from IBM. I'm using 7.14.10.1437 from 11. of February 2008. Do you think that could be the problem? I didn't find newer drivers that I can install.

I have Aero turned off all the time. Still tried setting 16Bit mode before starting DOSBox, but that didn't help.

I'm quite sure it's not possible to use any XP drivers on Vista.

Any other ideas? Or did I get something wrong?

Reply 3 of 5, by Cohar

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Though i obviously wasn't supposed to install those drivers on my machine, i still found a way to do it by extracting the package, bypassing the setup files and manually installing the drivers. Afterthat I could run the Setup, too.
I've got the newest Intel drivers installed now, but unfortunately that didn't solve any of my problems.

Any ideas?

Reply 4 of 5, by DosFreak

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You can try the AEP CVS build in my signature or gulikoza's build and try Direct3D mode.

It's been a long time since I tested DOSBox with the 945 graphics card. I've been testing DOSBox on the 965 chipset for the last year and the new 4 series this past week in Vista and haven't had these issues.

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Reply 5 of 5, by Cohar

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gulicoza's build works just perfectly fine. All problems gone.

Thank you for you help!