Bought Abe's Oddessy yesterday :D, it worked for the first time perfectly, all visuals all sound no problem. This morning when I booted the game up there was no image, just sound. If I alt-tab out and return back to the game I do get an image but it's frozen. I got thismessage (attached image) after using the alt-tab trick I managed to quit through the game. My laptop can run the game I know that for sure but it is Win 7, is there something I can use to help the game run properly?

I haven't bought the game but i encountered similar problem with some Dosbox emulated games before what i did is:

Locate the dosbox.cfg inside the installation folder. Open it using notepad,

Under [sdl] section, look for this line:

output=overlay*



*overlay is the default

try changing the value with one of these:
surface, overlay, opengl, openglnb, ddraw

Experiment with each one of them and see if it solved your problem.