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First post, by Augustus Blizzard

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Hello!

The problem: When I change to full screen in DosBox, the screen turns black, stays like that for a while until a quick BSoD flashes and the computer restarts itself. The program seems to run normally in windowed mode, and when I put "fullscreen=true" in the conf file, it just used the windowed mode and filled the rest of the screen with black... so it's not true full screen at all. And I would really like it being true full screen 😀

So is there some way to find out why the program crashes like that? Or a magical fix? Solutions?

My specs:
Pentium IV 2.66 ghz
1536 MB RAM
XFX nVidia Geforce 8600GT 256 MB RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Windows XP Home Edition

Thanks in advance.

Reply 4 of 11, by DosFreak

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Turn off "Automatically restart" in your My Computer - properties and then replicate the behavior that causes the BSOD. Instead of rebooting the computer should stay on the BSOD screen so you can identify what caused the crash.

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Reply 6 of 11, by ADDiCT

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I think there's no way a properly coded app can crash your OS like that. Do you have the graphics card or your CPU overclocked? I've seen these "spontaneous reboots" on machines with broken RAM modules, or from machines that were incorrectly OC'd. Another source of that kind of problems could be old/incorrect AGP drivers.

Reply 7 of 11, by eL_PuSHeR

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AGP implementation sucked since first time it was devised. My ATi Radeon X800GTO tends to crash sometimes when AGP aperture is set to >128MB in bios. It's a pity, because setting AGP aperture to 256MB gives you a slight boost in fps.

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