It's a non-dosbox issue, so I'm posting this thread in this section.

I've debugged this some time ago, not knowing (but assuming in the end)
that it is not related to dosbox. It doesn't happen always, but pretty often.

Exatly. the most funny thing, sometimes (very rare ocasions) I managed to complete the full race on this track. most times happen on the first lap, but sometimes happens on the second, third, or don't happen at all. really intriguing. Its frustrating to change do VGA just to play on ths track, its a great track, and SVGA on screamer is so beuatiful. And only crashes on this track, the other tracks are running great.

Dear lord, get over it! It's just a game, dammit. There's nothing you can do about game bugs.

maybe someone have a solution. bugs sometimes have patches to fix.
if it can't be fixed, I'll accept that. but I least I try to see solutions... that's the purpose of this forum, I guess.

It ain't here:
http://www.patches-scrolls.de/game_index.php#s

A few months ago I discovred the cause of the problem.

It's the file map5h.dat (in the GFX folder), wich is the file for the SVGA data for the track sunbeach hill. To avoid the crashes, just rename the file map5l.dat (VGA data of the track) to map5H.dat (of course, after backing up both files).

However, unfortunately doing this makes some of the scenery disappear, like buildings, trees, for no apparent reason (in the VGA version of the track all the scenery is complete, despite the lower resolution). But the crashes are all gone.

I'm just posting for those who really like the game and are interested on the issue, so, sorry for the incovenience.

Cool, thanks for the tip.

It used to randomly crash for me running on an old Win98/DOS PC, it's just the game being buggy! As mentioned above, swap to VGA or do that change above. All the Screamer games had a weird sort of scaled SVGA mode (you can see some lines of the screen fatter than others), luckily Screamer 2 and Screamer Rally were made more reliable with the 3Dfx patches.

Yeah, it would be real cool a 3DFX patch for screamer just like the one for S2. 😀

It never happened though, as Screamer 1 only had 256 colour mode, where 2 and Rally had 16bit mode, which were more easily converted to 3Dfx.