geoffreyyuen: I've just downloaded Descent 1 & 2 and I'm trying to run on it on Windows 7 using and Intell HD 3000 graphics screen resolution 1366 x768. When I launch it I get a black screen with music when I break out of it I get a different resolution screen which crashes. I saw where I had to reconfigure the video setting for the dosbox but I don't see anything to edit as it looks like it runs in compiled mode. If you can help please give very detailed instructions. Note I can't see my APPS in my user file but it does exit.
Gog's default dosbox settings aren't very good, or pretty. Your best bet is to download a cvs build from
http://ykhwong.x-y.net/ copy it into your descent directory, copy the shader folder to descent too, and change the desktop descent shortcut target location to match the cvs build.
eg:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Descent and Descent 2\20111012\dosbox.exe" -conf dosboxDescent2.conf -noconsole -c "exit"
make sure to open the .conf file with notepad and make the following changes:
fullresolution=desktop
output=direct3d
#you have to add this:
pixelshader=HQ2x.fx
then
scaler=hardware2x
Note: the direct3d settings only work if your video card supports them.
If that's too much for you, just try changing your older dosbox version's settings to output=OpenGL, or ddraw, and fullresolution=desktop, maybe aspect=true. YMMV.
The .conf is documented, so play around with the various settings as needed.
