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King's Quest Collection on Vista 32

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First post, by MarcusRaven

Posted on 2007-10-30, 23:25

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I have the disc for the King's Quest Collection, and would like to put it on my new computer. Before doing ANYTHING, I want to know who here is using it on Vista 32, and what you did to get it working. I really don't want to use the patches that everybody suggests, because they really screwed up my game files when I used them.

My new computer is as follows:

HP e4500
Core 2 Duo
3 Gb RAM
500 Gig HDD
512 Geforce 8600 Gt
Windows Vista 32-bit

So specs are not an issue.

Any help?

Reply 1 of 1, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-10-31, 00:53

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If your talking about the new King's Quest collection that uses DosBox then it'll run the same as in does in Windows XP. Only possible issues are:

Possibly issues with Aero depending on graphics card and output= mode in dosbox.conf
Permissions issues if you don't run DosBox as an admin or assign the appropriate rights to the directories you run your games in.
Switching to fullscreen may cause issues if you have old drivers installed.
The version of DosBox that comes with the collection is old so you'll need to upgrade it to the latest version.

Collector who frequents these forums and the VU Games forums probably has all the details on what issues the collection may have in Vista. He's even done all of the work on how to upgrade the collection to the latest version and some shortcuts I believe.

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