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Having problems running a game in Win98SE #4423

Open notVegas opened 1 year ago

notVegas commented 1 year ago

Question

im trying to get this old game for my girlfriend to work my little pony friendship gardens (1999)

everything seems to work fine but when I launch the game i get audio but the screen changes sizes and is blacked out. when i run it with the video debug overlay open it blacks that out as well. ive changed soo many options and dont know where to begin someone pls help me .config file:

[sdl] autolock=true

[dosbox] title=Windows 98 memsize=512

[video] vmemsize=8 vesa modelist width limit=0 vesa modelist height limit=0

[dos] ver=7.1 hard drive data rate limit=0 floppy drive data rate limit=0

[cpu] cputype=pentium_mmx core=normal

[sblaster] sbtype=sb16vibra

[fdc, primary] int13fakev86io=true

[ide, primary] int13fakeio=true int13fakev86io=true

[ide, secondary] int13fakeio=true int13fakev86io=true cd-rom insertion delay=4000

[render] scaler=none

[autoexec]

IMGMOUNT C hdd.img

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maron2000 commented 1 year ago

I don't see any flaws, but maybe you might want to change core=normal to core=dynamic_x86 and/or increase the value of cycles to a higher value. pony

notVegas commented 11 months ago

thank you for your suggestion unfortunately this did not work for me for some reason