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First post, by Sky_Render

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My problem is thus: Whenever I attempt to run King's Quest VII, I get the following error message without fail:

An privileged instruction was executed at address 004738f5
Click on OK to terminate the application

It then closes the program when I hit OK, of course. The game is patched and as up to date as Sierra's patches allow. The specs of my system are:

* MSI motherboard
* Pentium 4 3GHz processor
* 512MB RAM (not sure what type)
* NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
* Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
* Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4

I suspect that the biggest offender here is my O/S, however, and not my hardware. Any help that could be provided would be much appreciated.

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Reply 2 of 3, by DosFreak

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Dunno if this helps since I don't have that ver of KQ:

http://www.ntcompatible.com/cdetail9670.html

I'm the same person who wrote the earlier negative report. It works fine, you just need to make sure you use the command line sw […]
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I'm the same person who wrote the earlier negative report. It works fine, you just need to make sure you use the command line switches created in the shortcut when the program is installed. You'll need to use the sierraw.exe executable copied from the cd into your kq7 folder rather than the sierraws.exe executable that is installed by default. Also, run in 256 color compatibility mode. If you want the game to run full screen, use run it from a batch file using Multires (free from www.entechtaiwan.com). Here's the batch file I use:

C:Progra~1MultiResmultires.exe /640,480,8
j:
start /w F:SIERRAKQ7SIERRAW.EXE F:SIERRAKQ7RESOURCE.WIN
c:
C:Progra~1MultiResmultires.exe /restore

where my cdrom drive is j:, multires in installed on c: i the "Program FileMultires" folder, and the game is in the f:sierakq7 folder. If you use the batch file, do not use use XP's own 256 color setting on the compatibility tab.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Sky_Render

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Unfortunately, my situation seems to be more complicated than that. Upon running the copied SIERRAW.EXE file into the appropriate directory and running it, it tells me "Windows title not found", regardless of color settings, then closes the program.

UPDATE: I solved it! I needed to add the RESOURCE.BIN link as well. Thank you both for your kind help!

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