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Getting sound but black screen on startup. I can Alt-Tab out and get a tiny window with video but can't change this to fullscreen.

Win7, Nvidia560ti and Xonar sound card.
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CamStapleton: Getting sound but black screen on startup. I can Alt-Tab out and get a tiny window with video but can't change this to fullscreen.

Win7, Nvidia560ti and Xonar sound card.
To go from Window to Full screen in DOS Box, you press Alt+Enter.

You can change open the .conf to configure the DOS Box graphics. In this case, the file is "dosboxC5.conf".

I recommend setting

fullresolution=desktop
output=overlay
aspect=true
scaler=normal3x

I do this for all DOS games.

I don't know why you get black screen. It might have something to do with the "output" variable, or the default fullresolution(=original) is not supported by your monitor.

"fullresolution=original" means 320x200 pixels in the case of Challenge of the Five Realms. Most if not all modern LCD monitors cannot handle such a low resolution, including my monitor. Even if they can output such a low resolution, they do it very poorly, because they are designed for a particular resolution (the native resolution), and the further you get from this resolution, the more the image degrades. I don't know why GOG keeps using "fullresolution=original" because it is just a lot of problems. It is better to use the settings I listed above.
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CamStapleton: Getting sound but black screen on startup. I can Alt-Tab out and get a tiny window with video but can't change this to fullscreen.

Win7, Nvidia560ti and Xonar sound card.
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doady: To go from Window to Full screen in DOS Box, you press Alt+Enter.

You can change open the .conf to configure the DOS Box graphics. In this case, the file is "dosboxC5.conf".

I recommend setting

fullresolution=desktop
output=overlay
aspect=true
scaler=normal3x

I do this for all DOS games.

I don't know why you get black screen. It might have something to do with the "output" variable, or the default fullresolution(=original) is not supported by your monitor.

"fullresolution=original" means 320x200 pixels in the case of Challenge of the Five Realms. Most if not all modern LCD monitors cannot handle such a low resolution, including my monitor. Even if they can output such a low resolution, they do it very poorly, because they are designed for a particular resolution (the native resolution), and the further you get from this resolution, the more the image degrades. I don't know why GOG keeps using "fullresolution=original" because it is just a lot of problems. It is better to use the settings I listed above.
Thank you! Works great now.