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First post, by yebvas

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Description of problem:

Running an older piece of software that has a menu system. When you mouse from item to item the highlighting of the previous item will not go away as seen in the attached picture below. I also get the error in the status window that: "Shell: Redirect Output to nul"

All I have tried thus far is disabling xms, umb, ems to no avail.

In response to innumerable help requests with insufficient information, I've created this list of guidelines to ease the process of tracking down and resolving problems.

The following are things that should be in your help request:
Motherboard: Dell Inc. 0HN7XN
Processor type and speed: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz
Amount and type of RAM: 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz (7-7-7-20)
Video board w/ RAM amount and type: ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series (Dell)
Sound board: High Definition Audio Device (RealTek)
Operating system: Windows 7 Pro x64
Game name (and version, if applicable): N/A
Description of problem (be detailed: saying "it's jerky" doesn't help, saying "the player sprites seem to be jerky when I'm pressing any of the arrow keys" does): See above
Reproducibility of problem (always, only once, always but only on a specific level, etc.): Always
Sound mode used: Default
Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution): Default
Version of emulator (for VDMSound, probably 2.0.4 or 2.1.0; for DOSBox, 0.58+): 0.74
Steps already attempted to solve the problem (please say you've read the README if you haven't, and READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T!): See above

Reply 1 of 4, by bloodbat

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Repeat after me: "DosBox is meant for games"

Reply 2 of 4, by yebvas

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The original intent is irrelevant is the issue has happened in a game menu or an application menu.

In MY years of programming I never programmed differently for a game or application, only the content. Most things in life are still if-then-else.

Thank you for your completely unhelpful and useless reply.

Reply 3 of 4, by Dominus

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The intent of Dosbox matters when people ask for support/help with Dosbox. If it's not a game, help is often not forthcoming. You might want to try different settings for output, cycles and core in the dosbox.conf. Also an SVN built might help.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 4 of 4, by Jorpho

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yebvas wrote:

The original intent is irrelevant is the issue has happened in a game menu or an application menu.

And yet, there does not seem to be any report of a game with a similar problem.

I might also suggest trying to change the "machine" setting in DOSBox.conf.