Unfortunately, Gabriel Knight 1 has not been successfully run on Windows XP. You'll have to wait until FreeSCI or similar has support for all SCI modes. (Don't worry, it's only a few more years! heh)

I'm guessing that you don't have the Windows version? It was designed for Windows 3.1, don't know if it works properly under NT/2000/XP.

*I* may have the Windows version. In the meanwhile, try using the other interpreter I uploaded (in the DOS forum somewhere, I think, heh)

I recommend we try to corral some SCI experts to assist with that particular project. It sounds like a good project to pursue, Nicht.
(I mean this thread: showthread.php?threadid=83)

IIRC GK1 was not made by Sierra (i.e. was made by a company that was bough by Sierra before or during GK1's development). So chances are GK1 may not be based on SCI. Then again, I may be wrong (but hey, my post count just got up by one, I'm getting there!!)

V.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/gabriel_dd/060498/

Looks like it was SCI32. Good luck guys with the Windows interpreter, as FreeSCI won't do SCI32 yet...

I've got the Windows version, but for some reason when I try to save my game it crashes to Windows.
The DOS version will run if you select no soundcard for audio in the install program, but I really want speech and sound effects.

With the Windows version, are you using any compatibility layers?

I tried it in Windows 95 compatability mode, but it didn't make any difference.

Have the update patches out there been applied? Sierra has the CD patch at:
http://www.sierra.com/support/technical/updates/content.html
The floppy update is not there, try:
http://www.gamesdomain.com/patches/gkpat10b.html

The CD update even includes a "Gabriel Knight Troubleshooting Guide".

Yes, it was patched and I read the troubleshooting guide, but it didn't help.

Monkeybrains wrote:

Yes, it was patched ...it didn't help.

Unfortunate. From what I've seen, there's a mix of working/not working reports out there (NT Compatible). There may be no easy fix here as it doesn't appear to be consistently broken on new PC's/OS's.

Strange. I'll test it on MY box later... like, when I'm at home.

Sample problem here crashing when hitting save button. Kinda weird i remember it working with my celeron in win2k, but now with my athlon XP it doesn't. Probably cpu speed related.

Kind of sux, such a great game.

You went from a P3 cored to a Athlon. BIG difference there as far as older games are concerned. A windows game I have wouldn't run on my Athlon but worked on my Dual P3. Tried it on another Intel rig and it worked. On another Athlon it was a no go.

In the future processor emulation will be a MUST for those older products that were so dependent upon the specific workings of teh processor.

No luck with the Windows version. "Cannot find Windows title" error, a brief black box (the interpreter window), and then the program shuts down. (No error.) Could this be a problem with Video for Windows or something?

The DOS version performs similarily.

DosFreak wrote:

You went from a P3 cored to a Athlon. BIG difference there as far as older games are concerned.

I had forgotten about this... We may even start seeing problems that were deliberately put there. IE: Magic Carpet 2 recognized my Intel chip and played it's intro movie, same game on an AMD: nothing.

Same thing happened on a Fischer-Price chess game.

Only saw this for video playback. Maybe Intel coded the "video codec".

Snover wrote:

No luck with the Windows version. "Cannot find Windows title" error, a brief black box (the interpreter window), and then the program shuts down. (No error.) Could this be a problem with Video for Windows or something?

That's a problem with not supplying the sierraw.exe a command line with the full path to where it can find the resource.win.

C:\SIERRA\GKCD\SIERRAW.EXE C:\SIERRA\GKCD\resource.win

That's how my shortcut starts up the game after installing.

Okay. This seems to me like a problem with file access, since clicking on "Change Directory" causes a crash. I could be wrong, but it's logical, right? RIGHT?

Anyway, I'm moving this to The Guide > Windows.