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Quest For Glory 4 Shadows Of Darkness Issues With Dos Box?!

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First post, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-12, 21:14

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Hi Im new to the forum but i know after looking at the topics and even after doing reseach all over the fourms im still having problems running quest for glory 4 shadows of darkness, I have the 9 disk floppy verison i installed the program then i would go to start programs sierra then the game it loads fine then crashes when i click on the charter after downloading dos box i selected the programs exe to open with and still wont load correct then i tryed using dfend and it wont load it says cannot load in dos mode what is going on i tryed following the steps listed in the main post can someone please help me with like a step by step for the 9 disk verison because i love this game and i really want to play it like i did when i was a kid 🙁

Reply 1 of 12, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-01-12, 22:22

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The Windows version of QFG4 cannot be run in DosBox unless you install Windows 3.1 in DosBox.

The DOS version of QFG4 runs fine in DosBox.

You cannot run the Windows 3.1 version of QFG4 in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista unless you use an emulator like DosBox/Microsoft Virtual PC/Vmware.

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Reply 2 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-13, 03:36

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How on earth do i do that? i cant find any info?

Reply 3 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-13, 06:36

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hey on the vm program i use 95 or 3.1 and it says it can not load an operatng system and says i need to install so does that mean ill just put in my old windows disk and it will emulate and i can run shadows of darkness? 😳

Reply 4 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-01-13, 06:43

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The floppy version also comes with a DOS version. Just install and run that.

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Reply 5 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-13, 09:03

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i have the 9 disk saved to a cd and i copyed them 2 my computer so i really dont have the dos option i dont think?

Reply 6 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-01-13, 09:41

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Just run INSTALL.EXE to setup your sound and play the game with SIERRA.EXE.

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Reply 7 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-14, 03:25

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i did that but the game crashs when you click to select a charter.... if i could make it past that i would be happy. But it wont do anything any help would be great.

Reply 8 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-01-14, 04:15

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Google QfG character importers

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Reply 9 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-14, 19:13

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how in earth would importing a charter help me?

Reply 10 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-14, 19:35

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hey i tryed the charter import thing but whenever i go into charter import it crashes when i start a new game then select a charter it crashes the only thing that doesnt is the credits. 😢

Reply 11 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-01-15, 04:27

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It sounds like you have a corrupted file. You may need to drag out your install disks and reinstall. If your disks aren't any good anymore, you might want to get the CD. You can still find it relatively easily and cheaply. As buggy as the CD is, the floppy version is even more so. Plus with the NewRisingSun patch for the CD, it is nearly perfect.

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Reply 12 of 12, by brianharrison06

Posted on 2007-01-15, 22:58

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see thats the problem my friend has like a really old computer the barley use at his dads work and it has windows 95 and it works on it so i dont think its the disk but i could be wrong?

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