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Black screen when opening a game

Open randycool279 opened this issue 7 years ago • 14 comments

I have a problem everytime when I try to run a game like Doom. It shrinks up and freezes, not able to fix it...

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randycool279 avatar Feb 12 '19 16:02 randycool279

Same with me on a Mac, running 10.14.3.

Nash-Vegas avatar Feb 12 '19 17:02 Nash-Vegas

same for me on Samsung laptop running win10

zlours avatar Feb 13 '19 22:02 zlours

Maybe problem in emulator? Maybe it can't emulate all the features of real hardware.

BaRRaKudaRain avatar Feb 15 '19 21:02 BaRRaKudaRain

Same here, running this on a Ubuntu 18.10 on Wayland.

arvindhmani avatar Feb 17 '19 07:02 arvindhmani

Same here. Ubuntu 18.04.2.

crankyoldbugger avatar Feb 22 '19 00:02 crankyoldbugger

Same. HP Stream 14 on Windows 10.

SillySylveon avatar Mar 17 '19 01:03 SillySylveon

I hope it works on mine...

ghost avatar Jul 05 '19 01:07 ghost

Dang was hoping to play Wolf3D but it's just black for me as well. Latest macOS.

kalbert312 avatar Aug 27 '19 00:08 kalbert312

I assume this doesn't emulate well enough for games. You would be much better off with Virtualbox/PCem/VMWare

PCem is the most authentic since it emulates the old hardware too.

parkerlreed avatar Aug 27 '19 02:08 parkerlreed

Same issue here, except I havent even TRIED opening doom, just the friggin' readme.

Zed-GH avatar Jan 02 '20 04:01 Zed-GH

reminds me of #50 a little bit, I think this is caused by the application not detecting the abrupt resolution change to MS-DOS that well.

on the readme.md, there's a link to a video which shows it's recommended to use Doom 95 (a little known version of doom made for windows 95) and 640x480 in 256-colors.

PF94 avatar Jan 12 '20 03:01 PF94

Same here Ubuntu, HP. When i closed it. And reopened it it wouldn't load

Potato-git13 avatar Oct 15 '20 18:10 Potato-git13

If you wait enough time after loading anything doing with DOS, you'll notice that it will start to respond on that mess of a screen, yet very slowly. If you have the patience, you can get the mouse to those garbled pixels, and you'd see it fine. So You can manage to reboot the machine after waiting a while, and that bug will temporarily no longer happen (as when you restore the snapshot, restore the machine, or hard reboot/shutdown the machine, the bug will happen again). It must be some sort of problem while booting up I'm guessing?

SillySylveon avatar Oct 15 '20 19:10 SillySylveon

This is MS-DOS Promlem #50 Try to run MS-DOS in fullscreen and start doom from it. (not tested) Or boot from scratch and spam F8 to open boot menu, then choose cmd prompt only and do same

Pixelsuft avatar Jun 24 '21 00:06 Pixelsuft