Re: New Installer for Return to Krondor?? Post by Collector » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:47 am Took a quick look and the installer starts with no issues for me on my Win7 x64 Pro.
DescriptionThe direct sequel to, Return to Krondor takes the player back to the fantasy world of Midkemia, which is once more in peril. It all begins when James - once a thief and now a squire of Krondor - is sent by Prince Arutha to escort the court magician Jazhara to the palace.
Shortly afterwards they meet William ConDoin, a fearless swordsman and the son of the famous magician Duke Pug. A ruthless mercenary named Bear sends his men to murder the woman William loves. It appears that Bear is in pursuit of the Tear of the Gods, a holy artifact of immense power. James and his friends follow the trail of death and destruction Bear has left in his wake and to stop him before he reaches the Tear.
As they progress in their travels they discover that someone or something is creating dark beings and horrible perversions of nature, suggesting that things are very wrong in Krondor besides the ambitions of a single renegade mercenary. Return to Krondor features pre-rendered backgrounds with changing camera angles for exploration, and 3D character models. Battles occur when contact is made with a hostile character, and are turn-based, including the tactical element of moving the characters manually over the battle field. The player controls James and three other characters who join the party. Compared to its predecessor, the game is less heavy on exploration, having smaller and more confined areas.
Much of the game takes place in the city of Krondor, which is divided into several districts; later in the game the player gains access to other locations, though it is impossible to physically explore the overworld. Several side quests, however, are still available, in addition to pursuing the main storyline. Unlike its predecessor, the game features a more common leveling up system where characters gain a set amount of skill points after having accumulated enough experience to level up. These skill points are allocated manually by the player to increase the characters' weapon proficiencies, defense, spellcasting, etc.
The game also allows the player to brew potions via an alchemy system, and features a detailed lockpicking minigame that involves choosing between several available tools and applying them to the lock. TriviaRaymond E. Feist, author of the Midkemia series on which the Krondor games are based, has written a triology of three novels based on the events and characters of Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor.
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The final book in the series, Krondor: Tear of the Gods, details the main plot of Return to Krondor. Feist has made several changes in the story so that the events of the game make more sense from a storyline perspective. Most significantly, the ending has been changed so as to be less open-ended. In the game, the ending is pretty much a blantant set-up for a sequel. Since Sierra scrapped the sequel, Feist has changed the ending so that it more naturally leads up to the events in his later books.
Sorry to disagree. I've had both Fallout and Fallout II installed and running on my Windows 7 pc, no special issues. As of today, I'm running Arcanum (also from Troika games, also not exactly a new game - from 2001 -, with nearly the same game engine as Fallout I/II), without special issues again. To select a compatibility mode for older versions of Windows, is never a bad idea, though, but - in this case - not absolutely needed. If you select a compatibilty mode for any instance of those programs (setup, game, patches, mods), don't forget to set all other instances to the same mode, or nothing will work. 'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” (Thomas J. Watson, Sr.) MCC 2011.
I got an original copy of the first game (fallout) and see what you are referring to. I have the fix for this game only, perhaps it will give you insight on the other. There are patches involved and the process was a bit tricky, (to me anyway), but i figured it out. Install fallout download three (3) different patches.
1) the semi-official Fallout v.1.2 patch 2) the Fallout v.1.3.5 patch by TeamX (unofficial) and 3) the fallout high resolution patch version 2.2b place all three patches in the main fallout directory (leave them rared (zipped)) unrar (unzip) the semi-official Fallout v.1.2 patch and it creates a folder in the directory called fallup12. Copy the contents into the fallout directory and run fallout, then exit fallout. Unrar (unzip) the Fallout v.1.3.5 patch by TeamX (unofficial) and it creates a folder in the directory called fallup13. Copy the contents into the fallout directory and run fallout, then exit fallout. Unrar (unzip) the fallout high resolution patch version 2.2b and it creates a folder in the directory called Fallout1HighResolutionPatch. Copy the contents into the fallout directory and this time return to the fallout directory and run the file called Fallout1HighResolutionPatchv2.2b.exe.
This patches the game and it should report that it has been successful. At this point you can delete the rar (zip) files and the corresponding folders they have created from the fallout directory if you wish (not necessary though).
Run fallout a last time (falloutw.exe) when the game gets to the first screen, go into 'options' and at the top of the screen there is a small SCRN box. Click this and adjust to whatever resolution you wish for. Also change the game to 16 bit. Click DONE then exit the game. Restart fallout boom MOS INSERT COIN.