Hi,
I know this might've been posted here before, but the only result I found was outdated and off the Dosbox section. I'm using a clean SVN build for OSX. Is there any way to fix this other than using another scaler?
I cannot reproduce with 0.74 or my own build of SVN (in my signature, since I'm on holiday the very new two comitts to svn aren't included).
At least not when starting up Dosbox. There is a known problem with higher color depths in games and WfW 3.11, though. But this is not limited to hq3x.
Please post your osx version, output and steps to reproduce.
I'm running Lion 10.7.4 with everything updated. This happens with every output (tried surface, overlay, opengl, openglnb) and games running at a low resolution that triggers the scaler. If the game's resolution doesn't use the scaler, the colours are fine. It's just limited to hq2x/3x, sai and eagle scalers. MAME seems to be partially affected.
Hmm, yeah. I noticed this later on that the prompt is not affected but games are. Maybe someone can trigger rhoenie to this 😉
I noticed this too when I migrated to Lion relier this year. Spent some time on trying to resolve the issue but had no success. Finally my solution was to just use "normal3x".
Other programs (exult, pentagram) do not have this problem with hq3x... Maybe someone needs to compare the hq3x matrix 😉
yeah, those others should be easier to compare but still not that easy as those (along with ScummVM) are of course all similar but still different enough to give a headache 😀
i mean the problem is somewhere else
yeah, I replied when you had only the quote...
and i replied only so that you see i have more 😉
That's why editing is way more evil than follow-up posting imo.
The perfect way is to remove old post and post again.
Things worked so much better on Leopard. This is not half of the problems I'm having with gaming under Lion... I'm seriously thinking about downgrading to Snow Leopard.
can anyone check whether it happens with games using 16-bit color without scaler too, and cga composite games and machine=vgaonly?
On my setup, colors are screwed with the SVN build in vga_only mode immediately at the DOS prompt, with svga(s3) it only in 16 bit color. Scalars are turned off. I use Lion 10.4 and I have had issues since the first version of Lion and DosBOX 0.74. Version 0.73 has no color issues but crashes when the full-screen mode is activated.
I was told in an earlier topic that it is a problem of the SDL library for Mac OS X that seems to be broken in Lion.
Lion broke some functions in SDL, which brought lots of problems on existing applications, as it wasn't enough removing Rosetta. 😠
well, as much as I was bitten by the SDL thing (I do snapshots for four applications, including dosbox), Apple is at least following through with what they announce. SDL was using deprecated stuff that Apple long since announced that they would cut. When they eventually did, we had this problem...
As for Dosbox and Scalers, there must be something that Dosbox does that doesn't show on other software with these scalers. Haven' got time to take a look and I think it has been somewhat investigated before...
