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Problem starting Dosbox

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First post, by Johnisnotcool

Posted on 2005-11-23, 02:20

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Whenever I start dosbox I get a "failed to creat a rendering output"

Haha My problem was not in finding a way to fix it(many other people seem to have the same problem) but in understanding what they are talking about when they say what to do.

most of them said something about "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib" But I didn't really understand haha

Anybody who could break it dont alittle bit for me and tell me were I'm supposed to put that would be helping me a ton!

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-11-23, 02:25

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Well before doing anything...

1. Update video drivers.
2. Try different output modes in DosBox conf
Surface
Overlay
opengl
openglnb
ddraw
direct3d

If that doesn't work then:

Hit "Windows Key" + "Pause Key"
Go to Advanced Tab
Choose Environment Variables Tab
Create a variable called "SDL_VIDEODRIVER"
Use value of Windib

or create a batch file called dosbox.bat.
In dosbox.bat
SET SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib
dosbox.exe

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Reply 2 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2005-11-23, 02:41

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I tried all of that. Nothing has worked so far.

I did this

"Hit "Windows Key" + "Pause Key"
Go to Advanced Tab
Choose Environment Variables Tab
Create a variable called "SDL_VIDEODRIVER"
Use value of Windib "

and Dosbox doesn't even start anymore... do I need to restart before I try it?

Reply 3 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-11-23, 02:52

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Okay....
Remove what you just added in Environment Variables.

Click On "DosBox CVS Builds" in my signature.
Scroll down to ykwon's build
Download his build of dosbox and see if that fixes your problem.

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Reply 4 of 9, by Johnisnotcool

Posted on 2005-11-23, 04:11

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now I get "Exit to error: Could not set windowed video mode 640x400-32: DirectDraw2::CreateSurface: Out of video memory"

Reply 5 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-11-23, 04:46

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Wow. What kind of video card do you have?

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Reply 6 of 9, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2005-11-23, 04:54

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Changing the color depth to 16bpp (display properties) works around that. The video card on my older machine showing this error is the Riva 128. Normal Dosbox CVS does not bring up that error, it's possibly some 3D stuff in ykhwong's build.

Reply 7 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2005-12-11, 23:02

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I have a S3 Graphics SavageIX, Its a laptop.

Sorry I took so long to replay I've been insanely busy and just haven't had time to mess around with it.

Reply 8 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2005-12-11, 23:05

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WOW ok, I just did what h-a-l-9000 said to do... and it works perfect!!! Thank you very much!

Reply 9 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-12-12, 01:10

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Thanks for replying back. It's good to get this info since it seems alot of people use DosBox with dinosaur age video cards and we get strange behavior from that.

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