Dos Game Screen

**kajinofe** · October 23rd, 2003, 04:02 PM

I tried to play a dos game on my P1 machine 75 MHZ clock speed.
I ran the game and the company logo screen comes out fine but then the actual game screen crashes. The screen gets all jiggly and shaky. The monitor is an old model as well. Dae Woo 1995 to be exact. In fact the whole system is purchased in that year. So I tried switching monitors to my newer one. 19 in. Dell Trinitron P991, and it gave me an "Out of Sync" error or something on that line. I'm thinking that the problem has to do with the graphics card (Trident MVGA-T9440PCI) which has 2MB of onboard memory. What do you guys think? Thanks for the help in advanced.

Oh and this would be my first post thank you.

**no1_vern** · October 23rd, 2003, 04:47 PM

Hi kajinofe,

Welcome to techimo. First change back to your old monitor. Is windows installed on the system? If it is go into windows, click on the desktop, select properties > settings > Advanced > Monitor > Here you should see a refresh frequency select 60, or 72. That should fix the jiggly screen.

I dont know how to fix it using just dos commands, the only one that I know will help you would be the "mode" command

**kajinofe** · October 24th, 2003, 04:22 AM

Thanks for the reply no1_vern

I'm currently using Dos 6.2
I tried 95b and 98se as well but didn't try that frequency change yet, I'll try doing that, but my concern is that would it work even if I'm running the game in full dos mode without ever going into the windows(pressing F8 on start up and booting with only DOS) after the frequency change.

Another thing, could you tell me more about that "mode" command? I might have tried it already but it's been a while so I need to refresh my memory. Gosh I tried so many different things to make this game work... But hey thanks for your help again. cheers

**no1_vern** · October 27th, 2003, 11:43 PM

Hi kajinofe,
Sorry to take so long to get back to you. If you havent fixed this issue yet, you may have to update your driver.

A good place to start is at : http://www.anime.net/~gigagon/trident/trident.htm (it covers steps for trident troubleshooting) Half way down or so you will see this warning : "DO NOT USE THESE DRIVERS IF YOU HAVE AN OLD MONITOR THAT REQUIRES 60Hz " I believe these are the drivers you have on your system. I suggest you go here : http://www.anime.net/~gigagon/UA64-DOS.EXE for the dos driver.

Follow the instructions posted on the trident troubleshooting page.

Vern