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First post, by Love the classics

Posted on 2010-04-17, 20:20

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Been running 0.72 for years on an XP machine, worked great. Just built a new system running Win 7, 64 bit. Did some research and found I'd need 0.73 for Win 7. Downloaded it, setup my config, mounted C:, CD Drive etc, launched one of several old DOS games I had and everything looked fine except.... and this goes for everyone of the 14 programs I have in my CDrive directory; about 1-2 minutes after launch of any of these programs, the video corrupts(?) and looks to drop into a 16 color?, EGA? mode?

I've used every video emulation available in the config file to no avail. Hoping someone has some ideas.

System:
Intel I7 processor @ 2.66
Gigabyte MB GA-X58A-UD3R
Ram 6 gig Corsair
Video Sapphire 4870 1 gig VRAM

BTW I have the newest drivers loaded for everything. Sytem was just built about a month ago.

Many thanks to any respondants.

Reply 1 of 10, by Qbix

Posted on 2010-04-17, 20:21

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kill explorer.exe 😉
anyway wait for 0.74
win7 their explorer corrupts the palete

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Reply 2 of 10, by robertmo

Posted on 2010-04-17, 20:37

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try different output=

Reply 3 of 10, by Love the classics

Posted on 2010-04-17, 21:20

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kill explorer.exe
anyway wait for 0.74
win7 their explorer corrupts the palete

So how would I do that? Is there even a way? And is a 0.74 under development?

Reply 4 of 10, by Love the classics

Posted on 2010-04-17, 21:23

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try different output=

I've tried that... started with surface, currently ddraw, tried opengl etc. nothing worked. Apparently explorer corrupts the pallete.

Anyone running in Win 7 64bit with success?

Reply 5 of 10, by DosFreak

Posted on 2010-04-17, 21:35

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Final option is to set the SDL_VIDEODRIVER=WINDIB variable.

Either that in your System Variables or create a batch file as follows:

set sdl_videodriver=windib
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Reply 6 of 10, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-04-17, 23:03

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And is a 0.74 under development?

Is the pope catholic?
Seriously, Dosbox is always under heavy development and yes, a 0.74 is under development and doesn'T seem like toooooo far off 😀

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Reply 7 of 10, by Love the classics

Posted on 2010-04-18, 00:28

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Well, tried setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER=WINDIB variable.. no luck.

Guess my only option is to wait for 0.74 😒

At least I can still play around on my old XP machine 😉

Thanks for all the responses guys.

Regards,
Gary

Reply 8 of 10, by lightmaster

Posted on 2010-04-18, 00:47

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last resort, try a svn build.

Reply 9 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2010-04-18, 01:16

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Change output= in the .conf file, not during the run of the emulator. Opengl shouldn't ever use a screen palette or 8-bit color (which Windows 7 will definitely screw).

No, I don't have Windows 7, I don't even know why i'm posting! The good samaritan in me wants me to!

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Reply 10 of 10, by robertmo

Posted on 2010-04-19, 07:49

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type
output
inside dosbox and tell us what it replies

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