Gabriel Knight I & XP

Gabriel knight 1 Updates/Patches

Windows version and XP

Enrico Rolfi (Endroz) has developed a new Windows installer with patches for the Gabriel Knight bugs. Use his installer to play this game in XP. It fixes most problems with GK1 under XP, including the nasty save/restore bug under Windows XP.

NOTE: If you have 64 bit version of Windows, you MUST run the DOS version in DOSBox, since the Windows version of the game will not play (no 16 bit code will run natively in x64 Windows.)

Endroz's GK Patches & Tools

DOS version and XP

In XP, the DOS version of the game (unless the audio in the install is set to "no audio/speech") may give a blank screen or won't even start, giving this error message:

We're sorry, you have encounter an internal game error...

Error number: 29
..\audio.cpp:1167:0:0

The default RESOURCE.CFG file has an entry:

audiosize=63k

Change this to:

audiosize=45k

or any value up to 45k means the game will run fine. Any value above 45k gives the audio.cpp error. If you remove the audiosize line, it will default to a much lower value. You will get much better audio performance (less crackling and dropouts) by changing this value to 45k.

A sample RESOURCE.CFG:

videoDrv = VESA.DRV
soundDrv = ADL.DRV
audioDrv = DACBLAST.DRV
joyDrv = NO
directory = \SIERRA\GKCD
cmd = GKCD
mouseDrv = none
memoryDrv = none
minmemory = 2M
CD = YES

audio=C:\SIERRA\GKCD;D:;D:\sfx;D:\patches;D:\aud
sync=D:\aud
movieDir=D:\seq
patchDir=C:\SIERRA\GKCD;D:;D:\patches
audiosize=45k

Also, adding:

audioIRQ=7

to the RESOURCE.CFG has helped some. (Note: From the command line typing "SIERRA -" gives options for the resource.cfg )

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