Ok, this is a specific problem with any game. I've seen it with many an old dos game. It seems to happen with or without dosbox also.

What happens is after some time playing the game the color pallet gets swapped somehow so all the colors go wrong. The odd thing is that alt tabing away then back into the game or into the dosbox window always seems to fix it. It it the type of thing that doesn't stop you from playing the game but would be nice to fix.

If it helps I have an ATI 9800 graphics card. Anyone have any idea what it might be?

Uh, that post was from me. It takes skill to register to post then post as as guest anyway. Let me tell you.

Sounds like your monitor is slowly dying. Try changing your monitor to see if the problem persist.

This is not related to troubleshooting, so it's moving time toward Technical. :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eagle of Fire @ Aug 9 2006, 01:18 PM) [snapback]247627[/snapback]</div>My old monitor was dying, but I doubt it caused this problem since it remains the same now with my new monitor. Possibly a new video card would do the trick but it only shows up when playing old-low rez games.

To me that problem seems related to the graphic card... maybe replacing its drivers could solve the problem...

It's quite odd... and shouldn't happen with DosBox.

Just for future reference, it seems the solution is to turn down hardware acceleration.

I'm happy that you have found a solution! And that you remembered to tell us :ok: