King’s Quest Collection running too fast?

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ok i finaly got it to run (Thank you colector for your posts) but now it seems to be running at around mach 1 .. how do i set it to run at a normal speed?

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Which game is going too fast? Can’t you just turn down the speed in the game controls?

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was kq 5 and yes it had that option but that didnt help

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Odd, I have never heard of anyone having this problem with KQ5. Which version of the game are you running, floppy, CD or from one of the collections? If you are running the DOS version of the game, you can try playing it in DOSBox.

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By the way, why do the SCI1 games (the VGA ones) run awful on Dosbox? very slow

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Hi, the following configuration runs just about everything on my PC (1,2 Ghz Duron running Win98SE). It was created using the Boxer frontend with the newest version of DOSBox (0.62). Simply copy and paste into dosbox.conf (a plain text file you can create with notepad).

Depending on the speed of your PC, you can replace the scaler=advmame2x line with scaler=normal2x. Advmame2x is a filter that smooths 320×200 graphics out to look like 640×400, but (in the case of DOSBox) requires lots of processing power.

You’ll also note that it mounts drives D: and E: as CD-ROM drives. You may want to change that depending on your own system’s configuration.

Lastly, keep in mind that (in my experience) even on very powerful PC’s, DOSBox is incapable of displaying full screen, polygonal graphics, SVGA graphics, or games with full-screen moving 2D graphics (e.g. Ultima 7) at a good, playable speed. There are also some games with CD-ROM issues, e.g. Inherit the Earth which only seems to run 100% on PC’s with genuine MSDOS and MSCDEX installed (i.e. won’t work in FreeDOS either).

The config file starts here:

# Config file created by Boxer Version 0.61.6

[sdl]

fullscreen=false

fulldouble=false

fullfixed=false

output=surface

hwscale=1.00

autolock=true

sensitivity=100

waitonerror=true

[dosbox]

language=

machine=auto

memsize=8

[render]

frameskip=0

snapdir=C:\

aspect=false

scaler=advmame2x

[cpu]

core=normal

cycles=6000

cycleup=500

cycledown=20

[mixer]

nosound=false

rate=22050

blocksize=2048

wavedir=C:\

[midi]

mpu401=true

device=default

config=

[sblaster]

sblaster=true

base=220

irq=7

dma=1

sbrate=22050

adlib=true

adlibrate=22050

adlibmode=adlib

cms=false

[gus]

gus=false

[speaker]

pcspeaker=true

pcrate=22050

tandy=true

tandyrate=22050

disney=true

[dos]

xms=true

ems=true

[modem]

modem=false

[autoexec]

mount c c:\

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

mount e e:\ -t cdrom

c:

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this is the 3 cd colection series and im running the windows version

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In my experience, the dual dos/windows Sierra CD-ROM releases from the early- to mid-nineties are all much more stable running in pure DOS rather than some form of Windows.

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Okay, kq5 will play now.. but the sound is all screwed up in the dos and windows version’s all im getting is lil beeps

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This is a common problem with the DOS version of KQ5. Usually the Sierra DOS games have fewer problems than the Windows games, but the sound is easier to get right on the Windows version of KQ5. You can try using a different audio driver. If you can get the DOS version working, you can avoid the “Out of Heap…” error. Try running the game in DOSBox.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

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yeh i tried dosbox but all i could get was the sierra logo to load up and then it would freeze up

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Try deleting your installed KQ5 folder and reinstall the windows game from scratch. You will need to set your resolution down, first, to install it.

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