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General discussionNone of my DOS games work on W11(23 posts)(23 posts)
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Posted June 25, 2023
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neumi5694: But it also makes it a PITA if someone needs to change settings like the overlay mode, he has to do it in each game's configuration file.
It's possible to batch change DOS games settings if they're installed under the same parent folder, eg, if the games are in C:\Games\DOS\nameofgame, using Notepad++ Search -> Find in Files:-

Find : output=overlay
Replace : output=openglnb
Filter : *.conf
Directory : C:\Games\DOS
"In all sub-folders" : Yes (ticked)

^ will batch change specific common settings (above example changes only the renderer) in DOSBox's .conf files in potentially hundreds / thousands of games at once without messing with any other custom per-game stuff (cycles, IMGMOUNT, etc).
Post edited June 25, 2023 by AB2012
Posted June 25, 2023
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psadler: Do I have to do something special or am I just missing something?
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neumi5694: I'm using Windows 11 and all games running in DOXBox run flawlessly, so yes. I guess you miss something.

The GOG DOSBox releases are quite idiot proof, there's not much one can do wrong.
I don't know if DOSBox requires any C-Runtimes to start, but you could follow the "how to get started" guidelines that have been posted in several threads.

note: At some point I had to change the rendering mode, since the preset mode was not supported by my graphics driver anymore. The games would remain black with the pre set mode.
I want to second this. My Dosbox games are the ones I never need tweaking to run on a newer OS.
Post edited June 25, 2023 by Syphon72
Posted June 26, 2023
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AB2012: It's possible to batch change DOS games settings if they're installed under the same parent folder, eg, if the games are in C:\Games\DOS\nameofgame, using Notepad++ Search -> Find in Files:-

Find : output=overlay
Replace : output=openglnb
Filter : *.conf
Directory : C:\Games\DOS
"In all sub-folders" : Yes (ticked)

^ will batch change specific common settings (above example changes only the renderer) in DOSBox's .conf files in potentially hundreds / thousands of games at once without messing with any other custom per-game stuff (cycles, IMGMOUNT, etc).
Good idea, hadn't thought of that. Notepad++ is the best :)
Posted June 26, 2023
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rtcvb32: Food for thought. Amazon shuts down smart-house because they thought he said a racial slur, and as most of the man's house was integrated with Amazon's smart devices...

Just be careful what you wish for, and what you're willing to give up.
I did see that news story, which I did find quite amusing given the ethnic background of the guy they turned off.

That being said, I still put more trust in an American corporation than I would in e.g. a Chinese one (and by definition also the CCP). Ultimately, I think that the sensible people in the population will hold the current excesses to account. I'd also point out that in the Amazon case, it was (patently false) allegations of inappropriate language towards an employee rather than general activity, but I do understand where you're coming from.

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Darvond: I've redacted the link in the quote because I trust Breitbart as far as I can throw their webservers, but I was wondering if you could provide a source from say, BleepingComputer or other sites that shall I say are less, slanted and red toned.
If only someone invented some kind of an engine that let you search the internet to come up with a different news source if you didn't like the one that someone else quoted. Perhaps if they did, they should name it after a very large number to signify the multitude of different sites that it could search.

Sadly, we can but dream.
Posted June 26, 2023
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rtcvb32: Maybe. I've seen exactly one instance of a game not working in Windows 7 that i wanted to play because of some Windows API change, and that's it.
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neumi5694: Which game was that? Maybe I have it, would like to give it a try.
Horizon Zero Dawn. If you look into it, it makes a kernel32 call to an API for DPI information that doesn't exist in prior versions of windows.

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Darvond: I've redacted the link in the quote because I trust Breitbart as far as I can throw their webserver
I was going to link to the blog linked as the source, but it jumps all over the place.
But if you want Daily caller, or a dozen other sites you can read basically the same thing.
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pds41: If only someone invented some kind of an engine that let you search the internet to come up with a different news source if you didn't like the one that someone else quoted

Sadly, we can but dream.
Yeah too bad. And too bad we theres only 4 channels open access via UHF receiver on my 12 inch CRT TV, with a dial i have to set to channel three... And the only other news source and entertainment is the radio playing reruns of the Beatles.

But hey, did you hear about this new fangled thing called America Online? Get this, you get a free disk where you can connect to them for like 20 hours for free (just pay long distance charges), and you put this thing called a modem in your computer, and it dials up and uses your phone line. Then when you get logged in, this guy's voice pops on and says 'You've Got Mail!'...
Post edited June 26, 2023 by rtcvb32
Posted June 26, 2023
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rtcvb32: Horizon Zero Dawn. If you look into it, it makes a kernel32 call to an API for DPI information that doesn't exist in prior versions of windows.
Ah, I misread the post. I thought it was about a game that would run on Windows 7 but not on Windows 11.

Thanks for the info.
Posted June 27, 2023
Thanks for all the help but I've found out the problem: I simply copied over the games from one PC to the other and then loaded up Steam which found all my old games. They were all fine apart from DOSBOX ones. Then I found out why: everything was there in the 'target' boxes within the 'properties' apart from the extra instructions required to run the DOS games (such as " -conf "..\dosbox waxworks.conf" -conf "..\dosboxwaxworks_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"), for some reason (my own fault I guess) they never copied over.

Still, I've now managed to get the vast majority of these excellent old games running!
Posted June 27, 2023
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psadler: Thanks for all the help but I've found out the problem: I simply copied over the games from one PC to the other and then loaded up Steam which found all my old games. They were all fine apart from DOSBOX ones. Then I found out why: everything was there in the 'target' boxes within the 'properties' apart from the extra instructions required to run the DOS games (such as " -conf "..\dosbox waxworks.conf" -conf "..\dosboxwaxworks_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"), for some reason (my own fault I guess) they never copied over.

Still, I've now managed to get the vast majority of these excellent old games running!
Great.

Usually you get more useful help, if you write something different than "doesn't work".
In this case something like "dosbox opens, but the game does not start", would probably have resulted in the correct solution :)

ps: The link within the game directory contains the correct launch options which you need.
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