Police Quest 4: Open Season Help
Police Quest 4: Open Season's original requirements:
MS-DOS 5.0 or Windows 3.0 or greater
386SX, minimum, 486 recommended
2x CD-ROM
4 MB RAM minimum, 8 MB recommended
3 MB Hard drive space, 15 MB recommended
VGA
SoundBlaster, Pro Audio or 100% compatible
Mouse
- Audio Problems
Audio Problems
Audio problems are common in the later Sierra DOS SCI games. There's no single fix for all these games. If
there a Windows version you can try it, first.
Problem - Poor Quality / No Sound (Win9x and XP):
The game has no sound or the music is of poor quality.
Solution 1 (preferred):
Play the game in DOSBox. It also will work
with the MT-32 sound module, if you are fortunate to have one.
Solution 2:
Use VDMSound. The game work well with
VDMSound. The sound will be as good as your audio hardware, and as with DOSBox, it works with the MT-32 sound
module.
Solution 3:
Play the game with FreeSCI, a third party Interpreter
for Sierra's early SCI games.
Solution 4 (DOS/Win9x):
Install DOS drivers for your soundcard. Without DOS drivers installed you won't have sound in a DOS window
in Windows 9x. If you can't find DOS drivers for your soundcard, there is an alpha
(developmental) version of VDMS that you can try.
Game Specific Bugs
There are a couple of bugs the game has that are not speed dependent.
Problem - Can't Arrest Walker:
Solution #1:
Apply the pq4cuf patch.
Problem - Shoot-out Scene Lockup (floppy version):
Lockups in the shoot-out scene.
Solution:
Apply the pq4pat patch.
Problem - Problems With Emo (floppy version):
Problems with Emo if the game was saved at a certain point in the shoot-out scene.
Solution:
Apply the pq4pat patch.
Problem - Can't Scroll Through Cursor Icons (floppy version):
Not being able to scroll through cursor icons at one point. All cursors acting like the talk cursor at one
point.
Solution:
Apply the pq4pat patch.
Problem - DAC Sound Lockup (floppy version):
Lockups after certain DAC sounds played.
Solution:
Apply the pq4pat patch.
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