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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Engines
SCI1
Release dates
DOS November 1990
Windows (DOSBox) May 10, 2012[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view, Scrolling
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Quest for Glory
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire on HowLongToBeat
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire on IGDB
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire guide on StrategyWiki
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire on MobyGames
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire on Wikipedia
Quest for Glory
Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero 1989
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire 1990
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War 1992
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness 1994
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire 1998

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.
Saves can be imported from Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero. Also, after completing the game it is possible to export character data to file in order to be imported to the next game in the series, Quest for Glory III: Wages of War. The import/export function is present in both the original version and the fanmade remake

General information

Sierra Help Pages - Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2] Bundled with all other Quest for Glory games.
Windows
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox. Bundled with all other Quest for Glory games.
Windows

Essential improvements

Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire Unofficial Remake

A complete and free remake of the game, it adds new VGA style graphics, an updated Point-and-Click UI, and a complete soundtrack.

It can be found here.

Import patch

The GOG.com version has problems importing characters from Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (the character will always be identified as a fighter, even if he's not actually one). There was an official patch for this issue.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/502750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\TRIALSG.***
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/502750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 286
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4.5 MB
Video card (GPU) CGA/EGA/MCGA/VGA graphics card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  2. 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>/502750/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (502750) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References