Posted January 22, 2011
Windows 7 32bit, realMyst installs and the intro video seems to work perfectly.
After clicking on the Myst book at the end of the intro, the book animates its pages flipping open and trails of pages appear, the animation smearing a number of partly open and fully open pages as it attempts to animate but fails. It kind of works in that the window with the quicktime movie showing the arrival on Myst to the starting postion starts to try to play and the sound for it can be heard, but the video mostly doesn't appear (it has only once so far) amidst the messy display of the book. Once done, the mouse lags badly, but you can click on the video and appear at the dock. All appears to be well - you appear on Myst.
However, turn left and click on the door at the dock, you hear the sound accompanying the opening animation, but the animation fails, screen gets corruption in the animation, the mouse disappears and you have to end task in the task manager to get back to the desktop.
Not much of an adventure so far...
Any ideas about the next steps to fix? Any one else getting similar problems?
After being a very happy customer since GOG went live and extremely pleased with their service, I'm frankly amazed they allowed this (and Riven, which I am also having issues with) to be released at all; with such obvious flaws in, it's a real pity that GOG is allowing these releases to tarnish its fine name in this way. Rather they had not released at all and stuck to games which -do- work with modern OS'es - that's the whole point isn't it?
After clicking on the Myst book at the end of the intro, the book animates its pages flipping open and trails of pages appear, the animation smearing a number of partly open and fully open pages as it attempts to animate but fails. It kind of works in that the window with the quicktime movie showing the arrival on Myst to the starting postion starts to try to play and the sound for it can be heard, but the video mostly doesn't appear (it has only once so far) amidst the messy display of the book. Once done, the mouse lags badly, but you can click on the video and appear at the dock. All appears to be well - you appear on Myst.
However, turn left and click on the door at the dock, you hear the sound accompanying the opening animation, but the animation fails, screen gets corruption in the animation, the mouse disappears and you have to end task in the task manager to get back to the desktop.
Not much of an adventure so far...
Any ideas about the next steps to fix? Any one else getting similar problems?
After being a very happy customer since GOG went live and extremely pleased with their service, I'm frankly amazed they allowed this (and Riven, which I am also having issues with) to be released at all; with such obvious flaws in, it's a real pity that GOG is allowing these releases to tarnish its fine name in this way. Rather they had not released at all and stuck to games which -do- work with modern OS'es - that's the whole point isn't it?
Post edited January 22, 2011 by gryfon
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