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WordHopper

A stylish arcade word game for DOS (and more) · By kokoscript

discord streaming issues - dosbox windows

A topic by rowan tobias created Sep 16, 2023 Views: 275 Replies: 3
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hi! i thought id report this since it's a pretty nasty one, though i don't know how solvable it is:

when i run the dosbox version (windows) and try to stream the wordhopper window, it strobes between the game screen and a black screen to the point that it was massively disorienting.

v1 of wordhopper didn't do this, to my knowledge - there was some funkiness when full screening, but that was easily remedied by playing in a smaller window. v2 works ok if i stream my screen directly rather than the application, but then no one can hear the new music :(

Developer

hi-

that could be down to a couple changes i made to the config (dosbox-staging.conf in the same folder as wordhopper.exe). first thing to try would be the line starting with "output", changing the value from "opengl" to "texturenb". if that doesn't work, on the line starting with "glshader", change that from "interpolation/sharp" to "none" (in addition to the previous change). if neither does anything, worst case scenario the config from v1 should still work with v2 (if you've still got it)

sorry for the inconvenience.

the first suggestion worked great!! thanks so much for such a great game!

Developer

The DOSBox builds now use output=texture by default as of v2.01. (Strangely, when I tried to reproduce that strobing issue, I got an upside-down output instead...)