Ah, yes - it seems to be running just fine now. A lot of the parts that I thought were lagging were parts where a video was supposed to be playing int the foreground, but the video wasn't displaying, and there seemed to be some delay at times while the game was trying to figure out what to do with …

Sweet, I managed to find it here: http://epgtech.com/updates/SRA/quicktime_link_up.html The trouble is that I was searching for 2.1.2.59, when I should have just been searching for 2.1.2. It looks like www.oldversion.com might be a good source as well, though I couldn't tell if they were …

Thanks for the suggestion, you're right that TDE includes 2.0.3 - any idea where I can find the installer for 2.1.2.59? A quick Google search turned up nothing that I could find - I can search more deeply later, but if someone already knows of a good download repository for old-version apps, that …

Edit with solution: The Dark Eye was packaged with Quicktime 2.0.3, which doesn't seem to run it properly, at least not in a DOSBox 0.74 installation of Windows 3.11. Installing a copy of Quicktime 2.1.2 (available here ) did the trick. Original Post below: Thanks to the terrific guide someone …