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DB on windows 8.1 crashes immediately

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First post, by jwojwo

Posted on 2014-12-12, 21:44

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Hi all,
Noob here. I just got a new Lenovo Yoga Pro 3. It's running Windows 8.1 64bit. However, when I try to run dosbox it flashes up a black rectangle with text too small to read for an instant, which then closes straight away. I've checked and waitonerror is set to 'true' in the options but it crashes anyway. Does anyone have any insight?

Reply 1 of 2, by jwojwo

Posted on 2014-12-12, 21:59

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I took a video of it flashing up and freezeframed it to see that there's an error message: "couldn't init SDL DirectInputDevice::SetDataFormat: Invalid paramter

the message gets cut off by the side of the window there so I don't know if there's any more to it...

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Posted on 2014-12-12, 22:27

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For future questors, dosbox apparently gets confused by tablet-style PCs. plugging a mouse in fixed this.

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