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Strange crash on startup DOSBox 0.70 Vista

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First post, by finesse

Posted on 2007-07-17, 23:46

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I am using Windows Vista and have the latest DOSBox 0.70. I have not seen any reported problems on Vista, yet for me, it crashes right away on startup 'DOSBox.exe has stopped working...'.
Even if I delete dosbox.conf so it creates a clean one, I get the same thing. It dies right after printing 'CONFIG: Loading primary settings from config file dosbox.conf'.
I chose 'Debug the program' and it looks like it is dying in SDL.DLL but there are not symbols so I cannot really tell what's going on. I tried to compile a Debug version myself with MSVC but this turned out to be far too complicated with 3rd party library dependencies and so on.
Can anyone offer any suggestions, or a Debug executable I could try it with??

Thanks

Reply 1 of 8, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-07-18, 00:12

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Have you tried changing "Output=" in dosbox.conf?
Upgraded your video drivers?
What kind of video card do you have?

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Reply 2 of 8, by finesse

Posted on 2007-07-18, 00:25

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I tried the various values for Output= but all had the same result. I have a standard Nvidia GeForce 7600GS with the latest drivers from nvidia.com. The only odd thing may be I am running at 1680x1050 resolution on a widescreen LCD, but I tried changing it to 1024x768 and no difference. I also tried disabling Aero but that didnt matter either...

Reply 3 of 8, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-07-18, 00:40

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Try the CVS builds in my signature.

Try AEP first
Then yhkwong's
The gulikoza's.

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Reply 4 of 8, by finesse

Posted on 2007-07-18, 01:58

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The AEP one works! So that means the next official version should work for me, whenever it is released, and I can just use this one for now? I guess you still have no idea what the cause of the crashing is?

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Reply 5 of 8, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-07-18, 02:04

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If the AEP version works then most likely the next official version will work but not necessarily.

I'd say if you want to you could try the next beta of the next official release of DosBox that will be out pretty soon and see if you have the same problem.

For now if you could just take the sdl.dll from AEP's and paste it into the Official DosBox 0.70 and see if that works that would probably narrow things down. It's possible AEP is using an update ver of SDL.

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Reply 6 of 8, by finesse

Posted on 2007-07-18, 02:09

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nope, I thought of that already 😀 The AEP works with the 0.70 standard DLL that was (apparently) crashing with the other executable. Anyways, its usable now, so good enough for me. Thanks for the assistance.

Reply 7 of 8, by Swyn

Posted on 2007-08-05, 03:56

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I had the same issue with Vista x64 and DOSBox 0.71. AES build also fixed the problem for me.

Reply 8 of 8, by red_avatar

Posted on 2007-08-05, 06:16

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The most crashes I got were caused by going full screen while keeping "original" as resolution.

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