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re: Question about 'My extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows'
Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 9:34 pm
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Posted by Everett (2940 messages posted)


Joe: when running older DOS games in Win 98 reduce your screen resolution to 640x480 and colors to 256. For other variables, right-click the game's icon and choose Properties. For help with making these changes, click Start, Help, Contents, Troubleshooting, MS-DOS programs.


On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 2:37 pm, Joe wrote:
>When running older DOS games in Win98, I get some kind of display/refresh problem
>in the form of flickering horizontal lines on the right hand side of the screen.
>I tried Moslo and that helps as it slows everything down, but the lines are still
>there - is this perhaps a graphic card problem I can solve? By the way my card is
>a Voodoo3 and system is a fairly humble 450Mhz K6-2.
>


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