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You can just start up the game load up the Tales of the Unkown and wait 30 - 45 mins and the game will stop responding.

I have tried different compatibility modes and that leads to a screen of symbols.

Win98ME compatibilty will start game, but it hangs within 15-20 minutes for me.

I understand the games are old, but I paid to play the original trilogy and it fails.

In the hopes of getting a response on one of these forums, has anyone else noticed this issue or found a workaround Does it only happen in Skara Brae.

I have the same issue on my Windows 8 box, except, the crash happens after about 10 minutes of playing.

Why the heck wont it just play, and why wont inExile respond about the freezing issue The whole thing makes me want to demand my money back, because the game I want to play is just not apparently playable.

I have resorted to getting a Commodore 64 emulator with the original game for that, which is so much slower than the Apple IIgs version that it is almost not worth it.

I remember it crashing back then too - with no way to recover.

Always frustrating losing hrs of progress because of not being able to save anywhere but the guild.

I used to play the Bards Tales for months and months back when I was 11.

Wasteland (1985) is free with Wasteland 2 (and is probably where inXile is spending most of their time.

Maybe after the sale, theyll have enough money to hire a few more programmers.

Perhaps its possible to do something like that for this and get around the issue.

Something like keybinding a key combo to perform a save state and doing it every so often.

Not sure if its DosBox, inXiles could be a customized fork, since DosBox is on Sourceforge, and has a bit of setup to get it to see hard drives and whatnot.

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