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First post, by Marcus

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Hello,

I have a following problem when playing Commander Keens with the dosbox.
It suddenly crashes and goes in to a black screen still running the program on the background. If I exit or press the windows key, it leaves the whole Windows sort of flipped upside down with a resolution of and old 386 😁

The only way I have managed to cope the issue is to make a new user account which works fine until the next crash happens. Logging out or restarting doesnt seem to do the trick. Any ideas? Now I have several extra user accounts because of this so there must be another way. Cheers for your assistance! 😀

Reply 1 of 6, by wd

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dosbox is a regular windows application, so if it can have THAT effect to
an operating system your OS/drivers are seriously messed up, don't you think?

Reply 2 of 6, by Marcus

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Actually now I made a notice that it seems to happen always when pressing alt or a combination including the alt key. And if you press the left alt key, it flips the screen left and the alt gr flips it to right if you know what I mean..

Reply 3 of 6, by wd

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Nice 😀
Maybe you have some background app/windows feature active that flips
the screen? As i can't think of anything in dosbox/sdl that would do that.

Reply 4 of 6, by Marcus

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Yeah 😜 The only thing I can make up is that it leaves the colour scheme and game settings on.etc??Although I dont know how it would be possible. The mouse cursor is fucked up too, so it inverts and moves sluggish..

Reply 5 of 6, by wd

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Well no idea about that, disconnect from the internet, then kill a few background
apps and see if you still can produce that effect. Reboot if finished testing.

Also check your graphics card drivers/directx version, and keep an eye on
the dosbox console window for notices.

Reply 6 of 6, by Marcus

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Hmmh. It seems to work fine now.. I didnt even do anything special.. I logged in with the "faulty" account and some icons where shitty again but some where ok, then restarted and its like nothing happened. Strange..