I originally posted this text to a comment in a blog, but actually I think due the broader audience I can easier get help here 😀

I'm running WXP, inserted the CD and tried to install it. I don't remember how many times I started setup.exe, because after the installer splash screen, the pre-initialization started but hung at 100%. In my impatience I always clicked ESC when focusing the installer and it got away. I copied all the files to the hard disc and tried again. This time I also tried various combinations of the "compatibility mode", ranging from Windows 95 to 2000. Nothing worked.

Next try: I crawled through my CD archive and found an old Windows 98 copy! Luckily years ago I was rich enough to buy my copy of Vmware, so what the heck, I fired it up and installed the real Windows 98 onto it. After this was done, I started installing QFQ5 and the installation worked!

Success seemed so near, however when I finished my installation and ran the binary, it outright crashed. Now way to get it running. For a moment a black screen appeared, but that was it. I was able to locate a 1.2 update patch, but that didn't changed anything.

Now, hours have already passed. I was starring at the W98 installation and the error message, suddenly an installer came up from QFQ5, in my real WXP environment. Wtf? Yes, the few times I started the installer hours ago from the files I copied to the hard disc suddenly was thinking "yeah, fine human, you're still there, you've earned it -> install the game". I did that job and got the files successfully installed under WXP.

Unfortunately fate predeterminated that I shall not play the game under WXP. The same problem as in W98 happened; even with less error message. In W98 at least I got a dump of CPU registered and a memory address with an error, in WXP I only got the "Send Feedback to M$" dialog.

I also tried various compatibility combination again with the QFQ5 exe files, but nothing helped so far.

So, I'm wondering, how the heck you guys got this running 😀 Is there anything I'm missing?

I'm not sure if buying another copy can solve my problems ...