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First post, by magnifico

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Hello all!

I'm afraid I have a problem with my graphics card or my monitor, since when i try to swicht to full screen the window appears black. I use DOs box 0.65. The program doesn't crash

my graphics card is an ATI radeon 9550, my monitor is LCD Samsung 19' 901N.

The problem occurs in Windows XP pro SP2 and in Windows Millenium. I have both installed in the same PC.

Thanks in advance

Reply 1 of 3, by Dominus

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you probably have to use a scaler and/or set a higher default resolution for Dosbox. Many LCDs can't handle the default Dos resolution at fullscreen and either display black or a warning or both 😀

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Reply 2 of 3, by magnifico

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And how do I change the default resolution in Dosbox?

Thankss

Reply 3 of 3, by MiniMax

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magnifico - somewhere in the folder where you installed the main DOSBox executable (dosbox.exe) there is a file called dosbox.conf. Open it from Notepad and you should be able to change all the DOSBox settings.

But I recommend that instead of fiddling with the settings using Notepad, that you download and install one of many front-ends for DOSBox. They make it much easier to change all the settings. I recommend you try the one calld DOSBox Game Launcher.

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