1st August 2004, 2:21 PM
Quote:Okay, actually you CAN click to exit conversations in KQ5 windows. Maybe there's some glitch happening with yours (not sure which version you have, I have the first collection (KQ1-6) version, which I understand had a few bug fixes... I mean, it skips that SECTION, and you just keep clicking until you got through all the sound bits, but it's there. Honestly, I couldn't imagine playing an adventure game where you couldn't skip the speech. Also, yep, the pictures lip synch with what's said.
I have the original KQ5 CD, not the collection. And you cannot click to cancel the look actions (as in, when you click the eye and then on something and it starts with a description of the thing. In the Win version you can't do anything except listen... no cancelling. Clicking, as I said, just makes it cut in with a new look action at the end of that sentence fragment.
I'm not sure if in the Win version you can cancel the conversations, though. You might be able to click on portraits to cancel that line, yeah, but I'm talking about Looking, not Talking.
Quote:I don't play it fully windowed. Blue bar? I think you haven't told the bar to autohide or something... That WOULD shrink things down a bit. Make it autohide, and it's exactly as you describe, only there's the title bar at the top that's a bit annoying.
Blue bar. Top of the window. In every Windows program. Minimize, resize, quit, etc... Unless it's a different color in XP? But you can't go to fullscreen in these games, as you said too, so the blue bar on top cannot be removed. And as I said, the Windows version does not fill the screen -- there IS a black space on bottom and on top that are not there in the DOS version. Not to mention the taskbar, hidden at the bottom of the screen...
Quote:Maybe you didn't pick "extended midi" on install... sounds like it... It does sound better with extended, because it uses whatever instrument set is built into your sound card. So, the better that instrument set, the better the sound. In other words, the music gets better and better with newer sound cards. Well, the instrument samples anyway. This is very apparent in 6 actually.
I think it's set for extended MIDI (in the winres.cfg file it says for music 'MT32.DLL', which I think is the extended midi -- ADL.DLL is the normal one, I think. You should check in your version.)... but I don't notice a difference between ADL.DLL (Adlib) in DOS and MT32.DLL in Windows. Maybe it's an Adlib music board, not the standard Adlib soundcard? Or maybe it's playing normal MIDI no matter what choice I make...
Quote:Having both versions installed is always nice of course, but I lean towards the windows version if only for a few nitpicky reasons.
Actually, they are both installed. In the same folder. Yes, unlike KQ7, QFG4, or EcoQuest (for each of those I had to do seperate installs to get both versions installed...), KQ5 installs BOTH versions to the same folder when you install. Just run SIERRA.EXE for the DOS version or the icon with a crown for the Windows one. :)
You just need to make seperate save folders and write out the full path each time you start the game (to save or load), because as I said they do not have compatible save files... a minor hassle, but not a huge issue.