First post, by Ludomeister
Hi all,
Minor problem with my VisionTek Xtasy 9200 with 256 Megs of DDR memory (it uses the ATI Radeon 9200 chipset) when I run DOSBox: when in window mode DOSBox 0.61 pulls 100% of my CPU usage, making running games impossible. However, when I either put another window (and it can be *any* window, for example notepad, or the DOSBox console window) *in front* of DOSBox running the game in window mode, or *maximize* the window to full screen mode, my CPU usage immediately goes down to normal and I can run the game.
I actually have *2* video cards on my machine (Dell 2300 desktop with a 2 gig Pentium IV, 256 mb of system RAM): the "card" that came with it, which is called an "Intel Integrated Video card" (it's actually a very cheap nVidia card), and the VisionTek-ATI card. When I run the machine on the Intel card, I *don't* have this problem at all. So I know it's the VisionTek card's problem. I of course prefer the VisionTek card, because it has so much more memory (and also has VESA support, which the cheapie nVidia card that came with the computer does *not*).
Any ideas as to a work-around to this problem?
Thanks,
Ludomeister