After following all the steps to install QFG4 i type sierra to launch the game but it doesnt work.

Msg error:

MsgBox called before errorMgr initialized:
Can't find SIERRA.ERR

This doesn't work at all

Talkie (cd voice) version from the anthology disc (the one with the dragonfire demo).

1) Install the game using DosBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/). This will prevent a bug in the installer causing it to think you don't have enough disk space.

2) Perform a full install. This is necessary to apply bug fixes in the next step.

3) Extract the files from qfg4cd.zip to your game directory (c:\sierra\qganth\qg4cd\ by default). This will not overwrite any existing files. qg4cd.zip can be found at the following sites:
http://geocities.com/belzorash/
http://members.fortunecity.com/gabriel001/patches.html

4) Run the game from DosBox. Although you may get it running directly, DosBox will prevent many timing bugs and generally, sound works better.

If you find there is no narrator and the text disappears before you can read it, you probably didn't mount the CD using the same drive letter as you installed it with.

My disk version seems to work fine under dosbox following the instructions above. I only applied the shadowup.exe fix (and ran update.bat). Note the above link is broken - use http://ftp.sierra.com/patches/pc/shadowup.exe

Oh, you may wish to go into the Windows volume mixer and display SW Synth (options, properties, playback) and turn it right down, the music scared me half to death).

I can play the game but the text disappears before i can get a chance to read it and there is no narrator...... help!