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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 are common in the later Sierra DOS SCI games. There's no single fix for all these games. You can try the Windows version, if running on 32-bit Windows.

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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