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Topic: Problems running Gabriel Knight 1 under WinXP

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27 OCT 2002 at 1:18pm

Supernaut

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I've recently aquired the SierraOriginals edition of GK1 on CD Rom. It installs ok and runs ok, no problems with graphics and sound. But: When I press the save button it crashes. Sometimes I can enter a filename and it crashes when I press the actual save button, sometimes it crashes when I press the "S" button in the options screen.

It's a great game, but I don't think I want to play it through in one sitting.

Oh, and I've applied the patch that can be found at sierra.com.

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P4 2GHz
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GeForce3Ti200
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Audio Card
Hard drive formated in NTFS filesystem

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28 OCT 2002 at 9:20pm

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How did you oporate sound on GK1 on XP? I have XP, and none of the speech card and/or music card fit. yes, i have the CD version. I bought it with the speciel box that includes both GK1&GK2. what sound/speech card did you chooch in the setup? Sorry for my english in this post, i know i have many mistakes.... :'(

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29 OCT 2002 at 1:47am

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Hard drive formated in NTFS filesystem


could it be that you have protected folders where the game tries to save?

what sound/speech card did you chooch in the setup?


1st of all which soundcard do you have?
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29 OCT 2002 at 3:43pm

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could it be that you have protected folders where the game tries to save?

I thought it might be something with this, but I run it as administrator, so it shouldn't be a problem.

what sound/speech card did you chooch in the setup?

I just ran the standard windows setup and it worked. I guess I'm lucky


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30 NOV 2002 at 5:01am

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Originally Posted By Supernaut (27 OCT 2002 1:18pm)
I've recently aquired the SierraOriginals edition of GK1 on CD Rom. It installs ok and runs ok, no problems with graphics and sound. But: When I press the save button it crashes. Sometimes I can enter a filename and it crashes when I press the actual save button, sometimes it crashes when I press the "S" button in the options screen.

It's a great game, but I don't think I want to play it through in one sitting.


I have the exact same problem!  runs great on xp, sound and all, but trying to save crashes to desktop...and I sure don't want to play it through in one sitting either!  I'm basically a computer novice, but when i looked in the program files i didn't see a save file...are there any games where one has to create one manually?  Probably a dumb question, but i'm puzzled! (and not the fun kinda puzzled!)
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6 DEC 2002 at 11:46pm

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This is a well known problem, and I've never heard of a solution for XP unfortunately.  You could take the unweildy steps of partitioning your hard-drive, or buying the expensive Virtual PC thingy, but failing that I don't think there's much hope.
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