DosBox Mouse Issue with Touchscreen


Harakiri23

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After a few minutes of using dosbox, the touchpen and the mouse on screen are shifted.


When i use the touchpen the cursor is mostly 2-3cm to the lower left, at a new restart of the game, its always fine.


Games i noticed this issue (the only mouse based games i tried so far):


- Betrayal at Krondor


- WarcraftI + II


The nub still works for the cursor but i find that not easy enough to use, the touchpen is a better input.


Furthermore, anyone know how to do a right click?


BTW: DosBox/Pandora speed seems not to be a enough for my favorite alltime RPG Betrayal at Krondor - at 800mhz i would it call "almost playable" but its pretty slow, loading takes alot of time, you cant really run around, reminds me at a very old DOS pc, i even lowered the ingame graphics to low... =)
 
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ahahah

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BTW: DosBox/Pandora speed seems not to be a enough for my favorite alltime RPG Betrayal at Krondor - at 800mhz i would it call "almost playable" but its pretty slow, loading takes alot of time, you cant really run around, reminds me at a very old DOS pc, i even lowered the ingame graphics to low... =)

i think you should open a new topic for this.
 

j6cubic

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I have similar issues, however in my case the shift is more or less random and also occurs with nub-clicking. It's really hard to hit anything. That's unfortunate, as it makes DOSBox pretty much useless for me.
 

FaeMinx

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The nub was driving me nuts trying to click in DosBox.


So, do this:


Run DosBox, press Fn + Ctrl + 1


This opens the keymapper.


Select LeftClick. Select Add. Now choose! - I personally like my right shoulder button to be LeftClick and left shoulder button as RightClick. :)


Works great! No more fiddly nubs or dysfunctional touch screen (yes it's still dysfunctional, but now you don't have to use it - use leftnub as mouse and shoulder buttons as left + right click).
 

FaeMinx

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BTW: DosBox/Pandora speed seems not to be a enough for my favorite alltime RPG Betrayal at Krondor - at 800mhz i would it call "almost playable" but its pretty slow, loading takes alot of time, you cant really run around, reminds me at a very old DOS pc, i even lowered the ingame graphics to low... =)

I haven't tried BaK yet, but see if this makes the game playable:


settings > CPU settings > Set the max allowed OPP level


"yes I know what I'm doing" ;) set it to 5, OK.


Set the minimum / maximum allowed MHz


"yes I know... bla bla" set max to 1000, OK.


Leave min where it is.


now:


System > CPU-Speed > set it to 1000, OK


Remember to reset your CPU-Speed to whatever your default is after playing BaK.


Hope it works! B)
 

Neelix

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Run DosBox, press Fn + Ctrl + 1


This opens the keymapper.

One thing I would add here is that by default Xfce uses Fn + Ctrl + 1 (ie Ctrl + F1) as a hotkey to switch to the first workspace, so if you are running DOSBOX under Xfce DOSBOX will only receive that key combination if you are in Full-Screen mode at the time. (which you can get to with Alt + Enter)
 
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