DOS game problems

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:39 pm

I have an old dos game on my PC-carmageddon, and I just got it today. this game is sweet, but sometimes in middl of playing it it just turns off. why? what should I do, I have DOSbox installed.

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:43 pm

Are you running it under XP, or on DOSbox? NT, 2000, and XP all have problems running DOS software. (A lot of it is due to the hardware abstraction layer.) Try running it on DOSbox.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:44 pm

Sounds like an incompatible video card or driver or something.

But I know next to nothing about this.

It's an old game, perhaps hardware has just moved past supporting it.

EDIT: Woot! I was kinda right!

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:50 pm

Try tweaking DOSBox's ini file. That usually helps...

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:22 pm

bicostp wrote:Are you running it under XP, or on DOSbox? NT, 2000, and XP all have problems running DOS software. (A lot of it is due to the hardware abstraction layer.) Try running it on DOSbox.

Im using DOSbox

atari2600a wrote:Try tweaking DOSBox's ini file. That usually helps...

I will try this.