I get into a fight with kobolds, no problem. I fight again and the game suddenly exits to windows. I talk to the healer, no problems. I talk again and exit to windows. I buy a dagger, no problem... I think you see where I am going.

Anyone know of a fix? I save often, and knowing it could exit to windows at any moment I save very often. Still, it takes me out of the game when it happens.

Please help.

I've always been in the habit of saving frequently in the QFG games due to their history of game stopping bugs (not that there are that many of them, but it seemed to be a Sierra trend in the SCI engine games).

When I last played through the QFG series last year, I recall QFG1 crashing randomly, so I don't think there is anything that can really be done about it.

Weird. Inside the latest DOSBox, of all things, you'd think it wouldn't be this unstable.

I'd recommend stopping DOSBox from auto-closing. To do this, you'll need to change two things:
-Right-click on the QFG1 shortcut you're using, select Properties, and remove the "exit" at the end of the Target line.
-Go to the Quest for Glory 1 install folder. If you're playing VGA, edit DosboxQG1.conf, if EGA, DosboxQG1_addon.conf. At the very bottom, comment out the exit line (change it to "# exit" instead of just "exit").

Unless it's DOSBox itself that's the problem, you should now at least get an error message when it dumps you out, though I can't promise it'll be helpful in solving this.