King's Quest: Mask of Eternity

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity

Developers
	Sierra Studios
Publishers
Retail	Sierra Studios
Digital	Activision
Release dates
Windows	November 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	King's Quest

Key points

Poor compatibility with modern systems

General information

Sierra Help Pages - King's Quest: Mask of Eternity

King's Quest Omnipedia - A huge wiki for the King's Quest series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Improved Mask of Eternity installer is highly recommended.
GOG.com		Updated for compatibility with modern systems and pre-configured with nGlide. Comes bundled with King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride.

The GOG.com release still has compatibility issues and bugs, even with the added patches

Essential improvements

Improved Mask of Eternity installer

For the retail version only. It will not work with the GOG.com release

A custom installer for the game, it provides modern Windows compatibility, netbook support, improved load times, and various bug fixes.

It can be found on the Sierra Help Pages Forums.

KQMoE Shim (kqmoefix)

The King's Quest: Mask of Eternity - Shim is a run-time patch that has been developed to workaround the infamous TalkComplete bug (random cutscene freeze), a lot of compatibility issues, and some annoyances.

All known demos, retail versions (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Brazilian), and the GOG.com release have been tested on Windows 95 through Windows 10 and Wine 1.8.

http://kqmoe.nicode.net/

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Options.cs

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Maximum native resolution available is 800x600. Use nGlide for higher resolutions (pillarboxed/stretched 4:3).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings/options menu.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only. "King's Quest: Máscara da Eternidade". Download.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on startup

Adding modern Windows compatibility

1. Download and install Zeckenseck's Glide Wrapper. 2. Using Notepad, create a text file titled starttxt and add in the following: KING'S QUEST MASK of ETERNITY Install Play Sierra Utilities Cancel The King's Quest: Mask of Eternity CD was not found. Please check your CD drive and restart the game. Allocating Textures. Please wait... Please wait Microsoft Direct Draw You must be running in 256 color mode or higher. You can change the color depth from the control panel display icon. 3. Take the file created in Step 2 and add it to the installation folder. 4. While in the installation folder, open the Options.cs file with Notepad and replace line 8 to read assignGModeName Glide. 5. Launch the game 6. Before starting a new game, go the options menu and change the graphics settings to the following: Graphics Mode->3Dfx Graphics Resolution->800x600 Dynamic Lighting->Off Connor Shadows->Off Monster Shadows->Off Character Shadows->Off Object Shadows->Off 7. Start a new game! NOTE: If the above graphics settings work fine when launching a new game, try turning on graphics settings to improve the quality.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5
DirectDraw	5
Glide	2.4
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	400 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5 compatible