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Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire

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Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
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Developers
Yosemite Entertainment
Publishers
Sierra On-Line
Release dates
Windows 1998
Mac OS (Classic) 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres RPG
Art styles Stylized
Themes Fantasy
Series Quest for Glory
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Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire on IGDB
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire guide on StrategyWiki
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire on MobyGames
Quest for Glory V: Dragon 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

Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is a singleplayer third-person RPG game in the Quest for Glory series.

Key points

Saves can be imported from the previous Quest for Glory games. The game provides also a premade Paladin save for players without one, since the Paladin class is otherwise available only for imported characters who have earned it in Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire or Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
The retail version requires QuickTime for FMVs, which can cause issues due to the old version bundled with game having poor compatibility with modern systems. While newer versions of QuickTime work with the retail version, many players have reported crashes in the specific spots
In addition to other compatibility fixes, the digital re-release on GOG.com and Steam does not require QuickTime

General information

Sierra Help Pages - Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Comes with added compatibility for modern Windows. Bundled with all other Quest for Glory games.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Bundled with all other Quest for Glory games.
Windows

Essential improvements

QFG5Patcher

Ability to patch the game's texts/subtitles into 6 supported languages, improved compatibility on newer Operating Systems (mostly relevant if you own a CD version of the game), contains a crash fix that was only affecting french and russian versions of the game and etc.

https://github.com/ubipred/QFG5Patcher

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/502750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saved Games[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/502750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Audio

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
German
Retail only. Patch for GOG and Steam version. Audio is English.
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only: Quest for Glory V: Fogo do Dragão.[1] [2] ScummBR.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5
OpenGL
Mac OS only.
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes QuickTime

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.5
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 601 120 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  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

  1. BraSoft (archived). - last accessed on May 2023
  2. ScummBR (YouTube). - last accessed on May 2023