Police Quest Collection: The Four Most Wanted & XP

• Police Quest Collection: The Four Most Wanted Updates/Patches

The Police Quest games are best played in DOSBox. This will provide the environment that hte games were written for and will overcome any speed bugs. All but Police Quest 4 are DOS only games. PQ4 comes with both Windows and DOS interpreters. You will want to install the DOS version of PQ4 to play it in DOSBox.

First install the games and apply the patches. Next setup the games in DOSBox.

Installation

Many later Sierra games have Installation problems. After inserting the CD the Autoplay launches and then hangs. Hold the shift key after inserting the CD to to temporarily disable the Autorun. You can also press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Task Manager to close the locked up Autorun program. Open the CD in Windows Explorer to manually install the game with SETUP.EXE. This is the Windows installer. Only Police Quest 4 comes with a Windows version.

When installing the games the installer creashes with the error of "integer divide by 0". This is a speed bug of the installer's system test. Skip this system test. You will still be able to install the games.

1. Allow the installer to install both PQ1 original and PQ1SCI (remake), PQ2 and 3. Skip PQ4 as the installer will only install the Windows version.
   
   
2. Choose General MIDI muisic and Soundblaster for sound effects for PQ1SCI.
   
   
3. Choose "SoundBlaster or compatible (includes AdLib)" for PQ2.
   
   
4. Select SoundBlaster for PQ3.

   Installing PQ4 DOS

   The DOS installer does not work in XP, so PQ4 will have to be manually installed.

   1. Copy the PQ4 folder (except the VESA and ENGLISH folders) from the CD to the SIERRA\PQCOL folder on your hard drive.
      
      BOOTDISK.EXE, EXISTS.COM, EXPFILE.EXE, GODIR.COM, INSTALL.INI, MAKING.ICO, POPDIR.COM, PQ4.INF, PQ4CHK.BAT, PROGLIB.DLL, PUSHDIR.COM, README.BAT, README.WIN, RESOURCE.WIN, SCIDLL.DLL, SETUP.EXE, SIERRA.BMP, SIERRA.INI, SIERRAW.EXE, WHAT.EXE and WINDOS.EXE can all be safely deleted.
      
      
   2. Unzip this archive (with the two missing files for the original installer) into the PQ4 folder.
      
      
   3. Run INSTALL.EXE to choose General MIDI for music.

Apply All the Relevent Patches

The Collection has the official Sierra patches, but you will want to apply the NewRisingSun fan made patches, which can also be found on this page. or on NewRisingSun's page.

Using DOSBox

See the DOSBox Quick Guide for help with setting up the games to run in DOSBox.

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