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KQ5 love to crash

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First post, by monsterbaldy

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My friend and I have tried running KQ5 on quite a few different computers from 486->P3, and no matter what system we use the game hard crashes after some time and it seems related to the wav audio. In discussing/troubleshooting we found out that both of us are trying to use the Roberta Williams Collection version of the game... I'm going to try and compare with other more legitimate DOS versions but thought I'd check if anyone had any experience with this here. KQ6 also seems to suffer the same way.

Reply 1 of 8, by Shagittarius

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I've never had either of those games crash on me. I can't speak to your specific version but it sounds to me like a sound configuration issue. Were all the test runs installed and configured the same way? If so I would double check my assumptions about IRQ.

Reply 2 of 8, by chrismeyer6

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Any hardware in common between test systems?

Reply 3 of 8, by monsterbaldy

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Absolutely no hardware re-used between systems, all using different sound cards. I tried KQ6 CD instead of what is on the Roberta Williams anthology and had the same issue. Really weird. I think it will work fine if I don't do soundblaster, and I'd say it's a system speed issue except the 486 also has issues. Not sure what to try next.

Reply 4 of 8, by Shagittarius

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I think you have an IRQ conflict with your soundblaster settings, try another IRQ.

Reply 5 of 8, by monsterbaldy

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I don't think it's likely that each of the 4 machines has an IRQ conflict that only impacts KQ5/KQ6. I did try IRQ 5/7 though on one of the machines with the same results on both.

Reply 6 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

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I do remember certain Sierra games crashing due to game bugs, but these would normally be fixed with patches from Sierra.
I don't remember KQ5 having many issues however.

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Reply 8 of 8, by monsterbaldy

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I used the gosierra patch to fix KQ5. Seems to have done the trick.