Acquiring and configuring DosBox for speedruns.

[IMPORTANT]
If you have the GOG or Steam distribution of the games, then that will be where your copy of King's Quest VII is located. Refer to the post in the "Forum" tab of this page for an explanation as to why we do NOT use them for speedrunning.

Downloading DosBox:
Download DosBox Enhanced Community Edition => https://yesterplay.net/dosboxece/
Configuring DoxBox:
Navigate to C:\users\<username>\appdata\DosBox and open dosbox-ece.conf with a program like notepad++.

From top to bottom of the configuration file make these changes (use CTRL+F to find them):

Under [SDL]
fullscreen = false (change to true if you want to play in fullscreen)
fullresolution = desktop (if you are playing in fullscreen and want the game to fit your desktop's resolution)
windowresolution = x (X is something that can fit on your monitor and is smaller than it's resolution)
output = opengl
autolock = true (Locks the mouse cursor in the window. Press CTRL+F10 to release it.)

Under [dosbox]
machine = svga_s3

[render]
aspect = true (keeps the aspect ratio of the game in a 4:3 ratio rather than most modern display's 16:9)

[cpu]
core = dynamic
cycles = max

*Most settings further down from here are related to music and sound which are irrelevant.

[autoexec]
mount x: <location of game files such as "C:\GOG Games\Kings Quest 7">
x:

*Note: as mentioned above the files for the GOG and Steam distributions of the game will be located in their respective folders. You may need to search around for them, but most commonly GOG will be at: "C:\GOG Games\Kings Quest 7" and Steam will be under C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common and in the King's Quest Collection folder. As said: please look for these files yourself as I do not own these two distributions and cannot verify their *exact* default installation locations).

Launch DosBox ECE and type sierra -o to launch King's Quest VII.

That is it, you should be setup. Happy running.

Any% video guide.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLatXWoVeC6CWC51pRFD73kTbrbQTZkfBi

Join our KQ Speedrunning Discord!

Invite link here: https://discord.gg/XEJbsHp

Just started up this server, runners of all KQ games are welcome to join! I'd love to start up a community of KQ fans so we can help each other out with routing, runs, strats, etc.

I'll see y'all there!

-Jaki

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Acquiring and configuring DosBox for speedruns.	ChuckGrody 2 years ago
Any% video guide.	ChuckGrody 4 years ago
Join our KQ Speedrunning Discord!	JakiJo 7 years ago