AboutJan Eskes Expertise Completed all Kings Quest games and can help with Battle tactics, clues
& hints, and installation problems. I can also help with Myst, Riven and
Myst III Exile - Schizm - Diablo, Diablo II Expansion - Morrowind the
Elder Scrolls Expansion - Lightbringer - Beyond Atlantis 1 & 2 and many,
many more games.
Experience I can also help with Diablo II, Myst, Riven and Myst III Exile.Plus Morrowind, NWN,Divine Divinity, Uru....
Expert: Jan Eskes Date: 4/28/2006 Subject: KQ 7 follow-up
Question Hi Jan,
Well, I tried everything, I think. After uninstallation, restarting, reinstalling, clicking the icon in Desktop, C:\Sierra\KQ7, Startup menu, still nothing. Either Windows Title Not Found or just a black Sierra Online box, and a total lockup.
I tried to use the info I found from that Forum, but I couldn't exactly do what he said...for one thing, there IS no SIERRA.INF file in my C:\SIERRA\KQ7 folder. I can modify the RESOURCE.WIN file, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
The only time I can play is directly after installation; it says Windows Must Be Restarted, I enter No, and it goes right to the game no problem. But when I restart Windows it's the same old error messages, each time.
You may wonder why I don't enter Yes when it stays Restart--I did for the first ten tries. It never works. So I just entered No again...looks like I only have one choice: win KQ7 before I must shut down my computer. I can't use AOL when it's open, because when it says "Goodbye", the Sierra box locks up. So I have all Saturday to win, or else I have to start all over again, it seems...
By the way, I know all about DosBox...well, not all about it, but I've been using it for some time now. I'm all about the "Mount C C:\SIERRA", believe me (PQ series, Space Quest, all the KQ games, etc). I have not yet tried KQ7, because I didn't think it would work...was KQ7 even originally intended to run in DOS? Perhaps I shall give it a try...couldn't hurt, right?
If there is any other advice you can give, I'd be grateful. But I don't think this problem can be repaired, at least not by my own hands. Maybe some computer techie could fix it no problem, but not I.
Thanks Jan!
Kindly,
Rob
Answer Rob,
Your problem has been on my mind all day. I even called a tech friend of mine to see if he had any ideas...he didn't. He thought the same thing I did. Blame it on WinME. The research I did sounds like the same things you've tried before, but just in case, I'm pasting it to this email. I am so sorry I couldn't help.
Jan
Try just copying SIERRAW from the CD, to your KQ7 folder. Then double-click SIERRAW in your KQ7 folder to run the game (don't worry about the shortcut).
1) Copy the File SIERRAW.EXE from the King's Quest 7 CD to the game's directory on your hard drive (usually C:\SIERRA\KQ7).
2) Highlight the icon for King's Quest 7. Press ALT+Enter on the keyboard to bring up the FILE PROPERTIES box. Go into the Command Line box. Move over in the box until you find SIERRAWS.EXE. Delete the S following the W, so it becomes SIERRAW.EXE. Do not change or adjust anything else. Click on the OK button. You should see your King's Quest icon change if you did everything correctly."
