Cool, I'll check it out. I'm pretty protective of my games and amazingly my copies of these games are in great condtion, hardly a spot on the discs so installing them completely onto the hard drive is very attractive to me.

For other reasons I have just downgraded my computer back to XP. Using the XP installer procedure again I played through the game as normal and found that the problem had corrected itself and The Beast Within is now running like a charm. It's possible it was just due to an error in the installation …

The game's folder (GK2WIN) is located in the Sierra folder within Program Files. I haven't tried the game in DOSBOX yet. I will update later on if the problem is duplicated there.

Hi there. I noticed another user has had a similar problem but wasn't sure if it had been solved. I recently purchased the Gabriel Knight trilogy from ebay, using Endroz's installers (many thanks) on the first two games. GK1 ran fine but I came across a problem in Chapter 2 of the second. When …