Kings Quest Collection Requirments

For those of you gamers out there that have or know someone with the kings quest collection, DO YOU REALLY NEED A PENTIUM III PROCESSOR TO RUN THE GAME?

I was going to get it for my brother but i saw the requeiments and his comp apparenly fast enough to run the game which i find very hard to believe. Because I used to play kings quest VI on my old 486, so i have no idea y the requirments are so high.

can someone shed some light on this for me or can you have a slower processor and be able to run it?

thanx

Minimum Requirements:
Pentium® III 800 MHz processor or equivalent Athlon™ processor
128 MB RAM
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® Compatible Video and Sound card
CD-ROM Drive
100% Windows compatible Mouse
1.2 Gigabytes of Hard Drive space
Printer

seriously, people, google is your friend.

Minimum Requirements:
Pentium® III 800 MHz processor or equivalent Athlon™ processor
128 MB RAM
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® Compatible Video and Sound card
CD-ROM Drive
100% Windows compatible Mouse
1.2 Gigabytes of Hard Drive space
Printer

seriously, people, google is your friend.

JnWycliffe

i know what the requirments were i just found it hard to beleive that it needs to be that high. i mean it not like its cod4 or crysis graphics. its a cartoony point and click game for the most part i just couldnt believe u need a pentium III to run it

There is a reason: The games run emulated in DOSBox. That means you need 3-4 times the processing power to run them, as every DOS command has to be translated into Windows-useable code. Yes, you DO need a Pentium 3, if not higher. A pentium 4 @2.6 ghz can run any DOS game in DOSBox just fine; slower than that, and the more power hungry games slow down.

Good choice in games though; You can't go wrong with King's Quest!

[QUOTE="JnWycliffe"]

Minimum Requirements:
Pentium® III 800 MHz processor or equivalent Athlon™ processor
128 MB RAM
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® Compatible Video and Sound card
CD-ROM Drive
100% Windows compatible Mouse
1.2 Gigabytes of Hard Drive space
Printer

seriously, people, google is your friend.

PhoenixVenom

i know what the requirments were i just found it hard to beleive that it needs to be that high. i mean it not like its cod4 or crysis graphics. its a cartoony point and click game for the most part i just couldnt believe u need a pentium III to run it

[QUOTE="JnWycliffe"]

Minimum Requirements:
Pentium® III 800 MHz processor or equivalent Athlon™ processor
128 MB RAM
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® Compatible Video and Sound card
CD-ROM Drive
100% Windows compatible Mouse
1.2 Gigabytes of Hard Drive space
Printer

seriously, people, google is your friend.

PhoenixVenom

i know what the requirments were i just found it hard to beleive that it needs to be that high. i mean it not like its cod4 or crysis graphics. its a cartoony point and click game for the most part i just couldnt believe u need a pentium III to run it

minimum requirements for king's quest 7 (1994):

486/25 or better with 8 MB RAM
DOS 5.0 or newer, or Windows 3.1 or newer
SVGA 256-color graphics
Sound card with DAC
2X CD ROM drive
5 MB hard disk space

not sure what makes the requirements for the collection higher.

[QUOTE="PhoenixVenom"][QUOTE="JnWycliffe"]

Minimum Requirements:
Pentium® III 800 MHz processor or equivalent Athlon™ processor
128 MB RAM
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® Compatible Video and Sound card
CD-ROM Drive
100% Windows compatible Mouse
1.2 Gigabytes of Hard Drive space
Printer

seriously, people, google is your friend.

Nibroc420

i know what the requirments were i just found it hard to beleive that it needs to be that high. i mean it not like its cod4 or crysis graphics. its a cartoony point and click game for the most part i just couldnt believe u need a pentium III to run it

i know but most of the kq games are. i still play kq VI and it hardly takes anything to run it. but whatever i guess ill just get some individually and older ones if i can find em

have you seen KQ8? it's not exactly pentium 1 materialNibroc420

Note: KQ8 is not included in the King's Quest collection if I remember right, not that you'll miss it.

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have you seen KQ8? it's not exactly pentium 1 materialDOS4dinner

Note: KQ8 is not included in the King's Quest collection if I remember right, not that you'll miss it.

[QUOTE="DOS4dinner"]

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"]

have you seen KQ8? it's not exactly pentium 1 materialNibroc420

Note: KQ8 is not included in the King's Quest collection if I remember right, not that you'll miss it.

I believe they did not put it in as it is not really a DOS game, and as such would not run in DOSBox, which means they would actually have to port it.

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="DOS4dinner"]

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"]

have you seen KQ8? it's not exactly pentium 1 materialDOS4dinner

Note: KQ8 is not included in the King's Quest collection if I remember right, not that you'll miss it.

I believe they did not put it in as it is not really a DOS game, and as such would not run in DOSBox, which means they would actually have to port it.

TC: Please Read--all questions are answered.

Just so you know, the original (and by original, I mean the MS-DOS executables from the 90s) games are on the collection. So, if you wanted, you could use the collection on a real DOS machine. However, to run in Windows, you need the emulator, which increases the needed processing power.

i didnt think i was cause so much trouble this this topic i appoligize, all i wanted to do was play somefun kick *** KQ.PhoenixVenom

Undestandable. KQ does cause people to do crazy things. Do you need any further explanation?

[QUOTE="PhoenixVenom"]i didnt think i was cause so much trouble this this topic i appoligize, all i wanted to do was play somefun kick *** KQ.DOS4dinner

Undestandable. KQ does cause people to do crazy things. Do you need any further explanation?

no im good i was just curious as to y the requiements were so high, cause i remember playing kq VI on my 486 and it ran find and now i need a pentium 3 to run it i guess its just seems alittle weid to me thats all

There is a reason: The games run emulated in DOSBox. That means you need 3-4 times the processing power to run them, as every DOS command has to be translated into Windows-useable code. Yes, you DO need a Pentium 3, if not higher. A pentium 4 @2.6 ghz can run any DOS game in DOSBox just fine; slower than that, and the more power hungry games slow down.

Good choice in games though; You can't go wrong with King's Quest!

DOS4dinner

You can go very wrong with King's Quest. How many (stupid) ways are there to die again?:roll:

no im good i was just curious as to y the requiements were so high, cause i remember playing kq VI on my 486 and it ran find and now i need a pentium 3 to run it i guess its just seems alittle weid to me thats all

PhoenixVenom

The reason is pretty simple. All of the Sierra "Quest" series that came out last year require DX9c or greater. DX9c requires SP2 in XP or higher and that requires a PIII. Therefore all the Quest series require a PIII or higher. It's not that the game code has really been changed. It's that it was designed to run native in Windows instead of using a emulator like DOSbox that a user might not understand. Instead they can all be run right from the desktop like any modern game and use modern direct x sound. Thats pretty much the case here.