Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel

Police Quest
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel	1987
Police Quest II: The Vengeance	1988
Police Quest III: The Kindred	1991
Police Quest: Open Season	1993
Police Quest: SWAT	1995
Police Quest: SWAT 2	1998
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle	1999
SWAT 4	2005

Key points

The game has in-game DRM for the 1992 VGA remake. The manual is provided by all digital versions.

Both the original release and the 1992 remake can be run under ScummVM.

General information

Sierra Help Pages - Police Quest series

Police Quest Omnipedia - A huge wiki for the Police Quest series

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Police Quest Collection
Steam		Police Quest Collection

A web browser version is also available.

Version differences[edit]

Police Quest Collection[edit]

A compilation pack containing Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (both the original EGA release and the 1992 VGA remake), Police Quest II: The Vengeance, Police Quest III: The Kindred, and Police Quest: Open Season.

All games in the pack are pre-configured to run with DOSBox.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\
Windows	<path-to-game>\PQ1^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\PQ1\EGA
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/494740/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\PQ1SG.***
Windows	<path-to-game>\PQ1\PQ1SG.**^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\PQ1\EGA\PQSG.
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/494740/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM user manual for details.

Video[edit]

In-game options menu (1992 VGA remake)

Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter` (when using DOSBox or ScummVM).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	EGA, MCGA, VGA

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			64-bit requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM.

System requirements[edit]

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	3.0	6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 286	Intel 386
System memory (RAM)	640 KB	1 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	1.0 GHz	1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/494740/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (494740) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ New release: Police Quest 1+2+3+4 - GOG.com

[gamedir-2] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/494740/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (494740) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] New release: Police Quest 1+2+3+4 - GOG.com

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[Note 1]

[Note 2]

Developers

	Sierra On-Line
Engines
Original	AGI
VGA Remake	SCI1.1
Release dates
DOS	1987
Mac OS (Classic)	1987
Windows (DOSBox)	January 18, 2011^[1]