VOGONS

problem dosbox on HP nc8430 Laptop

Topic actions

First post, by adam76

Posted on 
User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

I had an NX7400 laptop from HP with a core2duo processor t5500 and dosbox worked fine. i upgraded to a HP NC8430 laptop with a Core2duo processor
T7200 and i got hell of alot problems running dosbox. the graphics are sometimes weird when running demo's like Cd2 and second reality. and when they change screens i also experience hickups in the sound sometimes as much as one second. i tried all settings in the config file. i have this problem with dosbox 0.62 0.71 and 0.72 so i dont think its a version problem.. the problem is in the whole thing. so not only running demo's but all the other software i try to run on dosbox as well.

Video card i use is : Ati radeon mobility X1600
Soundcard HD sound from intel

Any more information i will be happy to supply to solve my problem i was soo dissapointed that this laptop got soo much problem.

also i tried upgrading all the drivers and direct X to the latest standards. i use a windows XP professional setup. didnt tried linux as windows is the base installation for this laptop.

hope someone can help me out...!!!

Reply 1 of 3, by adam76

Posted on 
User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

some additional information i see that when there is the hickup the window will popup of dosbox. i tried settings static resolution but none of that helps. it seems something to do with resolution change in the dosbox.

Reply 2 of 3, by wd

Posted on 
User metadata
Rank DOSBox Author
Rank
DOSBox Author

Are the colours weird when using dosbox in windowed mode, too?
Does it affect all games you tried, or only a few?

Maybe re-download second reality, and be sure you mount it correctly
(so you have to type something like "cd second" before running it).

Reply 3 of 3, by adam76

Posted on 
User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

colour strange effects i dont notice it. but sometimes at the bottom of the screen till half of the screen i got graphical errors like blank and so on,

i have this in all the software that i am running in dosbox and change resolution while the software is running.

also when i running it in windowed mode and the dosbox window is at the back and a resolution change occur the window popup

Go to top of page Go to top of page
Back to DOSBox General
Close window
Close window