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Hi folks,

I installed KQV on Vista 32 using Collector's installer, but I cannot get the game up and running. The installation and subsequent configuration seemed to go fine. When I run the game DOSBox starts up and I see the KQV hourglass icon for a second or two, but then it disappears and the black screen just hangs. No Sierra logo or anything. Has anyone else had this problem and/or know of the solution? Thanks -

CD or floppy version?

CD version

Sounds like you're trying to run the Win version, not the DOS version. Thus DOSBox will flash a message stating that it's a windows application and quickly exit.

envisge0ne, i don't think this is the case, as i installed KQV using Collector's installer, which i assume installs the DOS version by default. also, the game starts up briefly (as indicated by the visible hourglass icon) in DOSBox. this wouldn't be possible with the windows version.

Try redownloading it and reinstalling it again. If it still doesn't work, let me know.

Unfortunately, still no luck. I don't know what my new computer's problem is w/ your installers (as you may recall, KQVI didn't work either). My old comp with XP ran things fine. In any case, I should be upgrading my new comp to Win7 as soon as Lenovo sends my upgrade kit, so hopefully that'll fix things.

In the meanwhile, please let me know if there's anything else I can try. Thanks -

Post a list of the files that are in the installed folder.

124.SCR
1699.SND
1799.SND
1849.SND
10126.SYN
ADL.DRV
AUDBLAST.DRV
AUDDISNY.DRV
AUDIO001.002
AUDIO001.MAP
AUDPRO.DRV
AUDPS1.DRV
AUDTANDY.DRV
Conf.exe
dosbox.conf
IBMKBD.DRV
INSTALL.EXE
INSTALL.HLP
INSTALL.SCR
INSTALL.TXT
Installer Licence.txt
INTERP.TXT
JOYSTICK.DRV
KQ5.ICO
KQ5HR.ICO
MCGA320.DRV
MCGA320M.DRV
MT32.DRV
New Installer README.txt
RESOURCE.000
RESOURCE.001
RESOURCE.CFG
RESOURCE.MAP
SIERRA.EXE
STD.DRV
TANDY3V.DRV
uninst.exe
VERSION
VGA320.DRV
VGA320BW.DRV

DOSBox 0.73 installed

Where did you install it and also post the contents of the RESOURCE.CFG and the dosbox.conf.

Game was installed in c:\games\king's quest v

RESOURCE.CFG:

videoDrv = VGA320.DRV
soundDrv = ADL.DRV
audioDrv = AUDBLAST.DRV
joyDrv = NO
kbdDrv = IBMKBD.DRV
mouseDrv = STDMOUSE.DRV
memoryDrv = ARM.DRV
minHunk = 204K
audio = .\
audioSize = 8K
floppy = YES
cd = YES



dosbox.conf:

[sdl]
output= overlay
fullresolution=0x0
windowresolution= 3x
fullscreen= true
autolock= true

[DOSBox]
machine= svga_s3
captures= "C:\Users\Daventry\AppData\Local\DOSBox\capture"

[render]
aspect=true
scaler= advmame3x

[cpu]
core= normal
cycles= 10000

[autoexec]
cls
@ECHO OFF
mount c "C:\Games\King's Quest V"
c:
cd \
SIERRA -o .\RESOURCE.CFG
exit

Everything looks as it should. Is DOSBox in %ProgramFiles%\DOSBox or in %ProgramFiles%\DOSBox-0.73?

Shucks, I was hoping something in one of those files would be off.

DOSBox is installed in c:\program files\DOSBox

I previously had DOSBox installed in c:\program files\DOSBox-0.73, but i got rid of that and reinstalled in just \DOSBox to see if it would fix the problem, but nope.

delete exit (last line) in the dosbox.conf file, then try to start the game and see what error message it gives you.

floppy = YES
cd = YES

That doesn't look right.