Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $17.19

Features:

• Collection includes Myst Masterpiece, Riven, and Myst III: Exile
• Explore new ages, dramatic storylines, and incredible sights and sounds
• Engineered to be fully compatible with Windows XP
• Exclusive interview with Rand Miller
• Footage from the making of Myst III: Exile and Riven

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Didn't run on my Vista! [Posted on 2008-04-13]
After researching this and being assured that it would run on my Vista, I purchased this set. I hadn't played it before, so I started with the first cd. It froze about 15 minutes into the game every time I tried to run it.

I haven't tried it on the pc but I couldn't do any of the puzzles in the first 15 minutes anyway, so . . . only get this if you're under 25!

Just kidding. I know I'll love it once I get it going!

Good adventure game that requires some thinking [Posted on 2008-04-22]
This is a decent game that requires some thinking, can get frustrating at times as a lot of the myst games require you to be very observant and look everywhere and remember which paths you have already taken. The puzzles are good once you find them. Recommend this game for whomever was a fan of the original Myst.

The Best Game Ever! [Posted on 2008-04-23]
This game is awesome! If you love to solve puzzles and you like a good mystery then this is the game for you. I have enjoyed playing this game and you will too.

works on Vista with some tinkering (read below) [Posted on 2008-05-26]
First, reviews of the actual gameplay can be found elsewhere. My major point here is to share how one could likely get this to work on Windows Vista. This works, in the least, for Myst Masterpiece and the 5-CD Riven (which I had earlier), so I would think it very likely it'd work for the DVD Riven and probably also for Myst Exile (if Myst Exile didn't work already). I got this info from a Google search[...]

There're 3 things you need to do/know to get the game working:

1) Set the correct compatibility mode for the shortcut to each game. This is Windows 95 for Myst and, I think, for Riven as well. I also gave the program administrative privileges in case there were issues with saving files; I'm not sure if this makes a difference.

2) Copy the System32 Quicktime files that "come with" each game into the Program Files directory for the respective game. Of course, it's probably a bad idea to have multiple versions of Quicktime installed (if it's even possible), so this gets around the issue that the different games appear to use different (and, more importantly, now outdated) versions of Quicktime. Here's what I did for Myst:
- uninstall the current version of Quicktime (happened to be the latest Quicktime Alternative for me, which didn't seem to work with Myst)
- install the version of Quicktime that comes on the Myst DVD
- go to the C:\Windows\System32 directory
- find the Quicktime files just installed; I found 3 (they should have an old "modified" date, I think 2003 if I remember correctly; to figure out precisely which files are relevant, cross reference the dates of the files in the System32 folder with the dates of the files in the Program Files\Quicktime folder)
- copy these Quicktime files from the System32 folder to the Myst program files folder (it's possible not all of these are necessary, but more doesn't seem to hurt)
- uninstall this version of Quicktime and, if necessary, delete the System32 files if they weren't cleaned up
Myst worked for me afterwards. I used a similar procedure for the 5-CD Riven; I'm thinking it likely that the DVD Riven will be fixed that way as well. Additionally, for Riven, I read somewhere to set "fEnableAudioProxy=true" on the appropriate line within Mohawk.w32 (a text file found in the Riven program files folder). Not sure if this is necessary, but I read somewhere to try that first, before installing and copying Quicktime, so I did; it didn't work, and I just left it.

3) I had trouble saving games initially since there was no line editor to enter the desired file name in the "Save As..." dialog box, so I created dummy (empty) files with the correct extension (*.mys for Myst; *.riv for Riven) in the program files folder to overwrite with the saved game. Annoying, but easy to work around.

So all in all, it takes maybe 5 - 10 minutes to get all this done for each game, which isn't very much time. If you're not very "computer literate", your best bet is to get a friend to help you. The trickiest part is finding the installed Quicktime files in the System32 folder, which I did based on the modified date (I just found a group of files with the an "old" modified date that matched at least one of the files in the Program Files\Quicktime folder).

Since getting Myst and Riven to work, I haven't had any issues with the game freezing or anything. My biggest "functional" complaint, though, is that it completely taxes one of my cores at 100% ALL THE TIME. Do Myst and Riven really not know how to just sit pretty and display a still image while I decide what to do next?! This has a tendency to make my laptop super hot, which has a tendency to make my laptop super slow, so once in a while I have to take a break to let it cool down. If your computer has heating/cooling issues, beware.

Also, to reiterate some hints from another post:

- Read everything.
- Check every direction at every location.
- Pay attention to sounds, they are often subtly important.
- Look behind every door (both sides).

Good luck!

- Jeff

Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition [Posted on 2008-06-14]
My friend got me hooked on the Myst games with this so I had to buy it for my self so I could play it whenever I wanted. So far Myst III: Exile is my favorite but the first two are fun as well.

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