On my recently restored P100, I cannot play QfG III. It locks up upon any serious animation, even with the detail on zero and the speed up. I am forced to play it on my pentium 3 instead, which has no sound due to the improper installation. Pardon me if I start quoting Hemingway.

Maybe you need more RAM or another Video Card?

That's my best guess here... I don't think a P 100 should have any trouble running Qfg 3...

And it should be perfect (or slow enough) for the Qfg4 Error52.....

That's weird... What graphics card do you have, Bob?

I have no idea, but it plays QfG4 perfectly. It just has trouble with QfG3 and QfG1 VGA.

It may be an accelerator problem. Hmm.

I can play with the hardware acceleration to see if I can get any results. . . If indeed there is any "hardware acceleration" on that prehistoric PC. . .

Let us know how it goes. I hope it works.

Please pardon the lateness of this reply. I've only just registered. <smile>

Now then... I'm presuming that P100 means a Pentium 4 with 100 MB of RAM. I'm also presuming that you're running Windows 95 or 98, as Windows 2000/Me/XP require far too much RAM and processor speed to run adequately on a P4 with 100 MB RAM. Please let me know if I'm wrong there...

At any rate, there are at least two tools to help you find out what graphics card you have (plus lots more): System Information and Device Manager. I'll show you here exactly how to get the information you need from System Information. <smile>

To access System Information, simply press Start, then Run, and type MSInfo.exe (or MSInfo32.exe if you're running Windows 2000 or above). Your graphics card information should be under Components -> Multimedia -> Sound Device... there will be a lot of information there concerning your sound card, looking something like this:

Name: [name]
Status: [status]


Name: [name]Status: [status]
IRQ Number:
I/O Port:
I/O Port:
Memory Range:
Memory Range:

For now, don't worry about the later details. All you need are the two names and two statuses (sp?). The second name, especially, will tell you exactly what sound card you have.

If it turns out that you need more RAM, you're in luck. At the moment, at least in Australia, RAM is very cheap - somewhere around the $50 mark for 256 MB. Shop around and see what prices you can get. Good luck! <smile>

I think P100 = Pentium 100 MHz. He's intentially using his older PC to play QFG3.



This clue should indicate that it is a Pentium (the first one) 100 MHz, as faster CPUs need a slowdown utility to avoid the Error 52 bug (Getting the Blood Ritual from the Monk's Tomb in QFG4).

But according to Bob Dûnegarm, he is instead run into an unexpected problem(s) with QFG3.

So far, ppl have responded with:

Elsa Von Spielburg: Amount of RAM or type of Graphic Card
Almirena: "accelerator problem" (pedal next to the brake)
Bob Dûnegarm: Trying out "Hardware Acceleration" setting in Windows (probably Windows 95/98/Me)

This problem might or might not be resolved already. But I think there is a common factor between QFG1 (remake) and QFG3 and its the way it handles the MIDI music. (I'm guessing the 2 games use the same MIDI driver). I've been checking out how to get sound perfect for these games when Windows runs a DOS game (in its DOS box). It says that the DOS box has no MIDI handler thingy (whatever) and uses an emulated version to map to the Windows MIDI Mapper (yada yada). But the adverse effect of this is it would cause the CPU to get get quite taxed as it has to handle quite a lot of these translations everytime music is playing.

This could be the main problem that Bob is facing with his P 100 locking up when other CPU intensice operations occur. One way to test this is either set to no music or set your Music to Sound blaster or some other card. (not to General MIDI or Roland).

The other way is to boot in real DOS and so things as the Ancients did. Get all the CDROM drivers, mouse drivers, Soundblaster settings, etc. and play the game from DOS (without Windows).

Hey good job Palmy

Keep it up I'm proud o ya boy ( )