Okay, so I've played quest for glory since... way back when i had an amiga and when i bought the game and it was called Hero's Quest. I started getting back into it again lately because when i played it before i only beat number one and got halfway through number two.

Anyway, in the last three weeks i downloaded them and dosbox and played them again (and no, i didnt use walkthroughs for any of them). I beat number one easily (mostly cus i remembered most of it). Number two was harder because i had to constantly restart from the beginning because i wouldnt get the elementals in time (mostly cus i was walking around asking people and getting hints to beat the elementals). Number three was pretty cool, I loved the graphics, and beat that after 4 or 5 days.

Now I started up quest for glory IV. I loaded it up with dosbox and all that, and i started playing. It was all good, espiecally the sweet new acrobatics skills, and i can frontflip places and stuff. So i did the beginning of the game, then i came up to this chick, and she started talking to me. She said about 5 paragraphs worth of text, exept the bad thing was, I only got about, one half of a second of time to read any of the paragraphs. So i'm all like what the hell is this excretory substance, I got dosbox open (cus i know that without dosbox the game is speeded up - much like training with the swordmaster in the first game, which was easiliy solved by dosbox). I've been trying many different things, reinstalling, running the setup and whatever, but it doesnt work. Like when i got to town, i try talking to someone and everything i ask, i get half a second to read it, and i cant play this game like that. This game looks really friggen sweet, but i cant even play it cus i cant read any of the excretory substance that anyone says.

Well, theres the long story of my retarded problem. Does anyone here know anything that could help me, like another program or something, cus i really want to play this game.

Ok, if you have the cd version leave the cd in the drive you installed the game from. That will give you voices and keep the text slower. Also, do a full install of the game and then use the New Rising Sun Patches. They will fix the big errors.

Get the patches here New Rising Sun, since I haven't updated my site in awhile.

Sounds like an audio issue. Probably the game is trying to read the dialogues from the game cd and it can't so the dialogues show and disappear too fast. Have you tried disabling the Audio option from the control panel? The one that you get to save/restore games etc...

By the way what are your system specs?

Yeah, I tried the audio thingy. I do get some audio but its all like pretty quiet and choppy and pretty crappy. I was testing the sound cus i heard that people had voices, so I was messing around with the audio to see if that would slow it down, but it was still the same speed and stuff. As for my system specs, i dont know at the moment, I'll check later when i get home and put em down here (cus i gotta go right now). All i know is that they arent that great, but i think they're good enough to run an old Hero's Quest game that was released in like 94 or 95 or whatever.

Install the DOS CD version of QFG4 (install.exe on your CD).
Then install VDM Sound, download the Speedset addon for it (get them at http://vogons.zetafleet.com ), and download the timer patches ( http://www.geocities/com/belzorash ), and patch your game, and run with VDM Sound/Speedset.

Game will work fine, even in XP.

- Spike