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Myst seriesMyst V Doesn't Save Settings(10 posts)(10 posts)
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Posted July 04, 2018
Every other one of the games appears to work perfectly, including, oddly, Uru, which runs on the same engine as Myst V.
Anyone else having this problem?
Posted July 04, 2018
After a little investigation with Process Monitor and PlasmaShop, I've discovered that it attempts to rewrite graphics.ini on every startup. Which is a real problem, since you have to restart the game for some of the settings to apply.
I hard-coded the file with PlasmaShop, but the game still doesn't start in 4k. It will only start in 800x600, although the options menu will say 3840x2160 and clicking OK will actually apply the resolution.
This is an incredibly inconvenient solution, and I'm not actually sure if the other options are getting applied properly.
Does anyone else have a better solution?
Posted July 05, 2018
I found a sort-of workaround for the problem if anyone else sees this and is having it.
The best you can do is set the resolution to 1024x768 and set other settings to your liking, then go to Documents\My Games\Myst V End Of Ages\init\graphics.ini and go to the file's properties. From there, check "Read Only" so that when you change your screen resolution later, this file doesn't get reset.
The downside here is that you will need to change your screen resolution every single time you want to play the game. The positive, however, is that all of the graphical quality settings now actually stick and you shouldn't have potato PC texture quality anymore.

It's really stupid that I have to do this, but it works. And yes, I also just confirmed that it is happening on the disc version on this PC, so I really don't even think it's a Cyan problem. It seems more like a Microsoft or an AMD problem.
Posted July 05, 2018
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freeman2001: I found a sort-of workaround for the problem if anyone else sees this and is having it.
The best you can do is set the resolution to 1024x768 and set other settings to your liking, then go to Documents\My Games\Myst V End Of Ages\init\graphics.ini and go to the file's properties. From there, check "Read Only" so that when you change your screen resolution later, this file doesn't get reset.
The downside here is that you will need to change your screen resolution every single time you want to play the game. The positive, however, is that all of the graphical quality settings now actually stick and you shouldn't have potato PC texture quality anymore.

It's really stupid that I have to do this, but it works. And yes, I also just confirmed that it is happening on the disc version on this PC, so I really don't even think it's a Cyan problem. It seems more like a Microsoft or an AMD problem.
it does save settings without your fix
Posted July 07, 2018
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freeman2001: I found a sort-of workaround for the problem if anyone else sees this and is having it.
The best you can do is set the resolution to 1024x768 and set other settings to your liking, then go to Documents\My Games\Myst V End Of Ages\init\graphics.ini and go to the file's properties. From there, check "Read Only" so that when you change your screen resolution later, this file doesn't get reset.
The downside here is that you will need to change your screen resolution every single time you want to play the game. The positive, however, is that all of the graphical quality settings now actually stick and you shouldn't have potato PC texture quality anymore.

It's really stupid that I have to do this, but it works. And yes, I also just confirmed that it is happening on the disc version on this PC, so I really don't even think it's a Cyan problem. It seems more like a Microsoft or an AMD problem.
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bman001001: it does save settings without your fix
Ah no it doesn't. I've just been wrestling with this just now, change your settings, the game tells you it needs to restart for settings to stick and then bam! Back to default. Even if I just change settings that don't reset the game, the game changes accordingly and then when you quit and go back in again, back to default again.

Playing on Windows 8.1 incidentally. Maybe it's a Windows thing?
Post edited July 07, 2018 by vcatkiller
Posted July 09, 2018
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bman001001: it does save settings without your fix
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vcatkiller: Ah no it doesn't. I've just been wrestling with this just now, change your settings, the game tells you it needs to restart for settings to stick and then bam! Back to default. Even if I just change settings that don't reset the game, the game changes accordingly and then when you quit and go back in again, back to default again.

Playing on Windows 8.1 incidentally. Maybe it's a Windows thing?
get off 8.1 windows 10 works fine
Posted July 10, 2018
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vcatkiller: Ah no it doesn't. I've just been wrestling with this just now, change your settings, the game tells you it needs to restart for settings to stick and then bam! Back to default. Even if I just change settings that don't reset the game, the game changes accordingly and then when you quit and go back in again, back to default again.

Playing on Windows 8.1 incidentally. Maybe it's a Windows thing?
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bman001001: get off 8.1 windows 10 works fine
No, I am running Windows 10 and having this problem. Haven't tried my Windows 7 PC yet, though.
And if all you're going to do is tell us our problems don't exist, could you kindly troll somewhere else? ;)
Posted July 10, 2018
I use the same OS and am not affected
Posted July 13, 2018
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vcatkiller: Ah no it doesn't. I've just been wrestling with this just now, change your settings, the game tells you it needs to restart for settings to stick and then bam! Back to default. Even if I just change settings that don't reset the game, the game changes accordingly and then when you quit and go back in again, back to default again.

Playing on Windows 8.1 incidentally. Maybe it's a Windows thing?
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bman001001: get off 8.1 windows 10 works fine
I don't have the money for it, good sir. And besides, Windows 8.1 is running fine for me too.
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bman001001: I use the same OS and am not affected
Good for you. I had to use the solution above. Right now I have to run the game, watch as it loads in 800x600, go into options and click the apply button and then it goes up to 1920x1080. It's a right pain.
Post edited July 13, 2018 by vcatkiller
Posted November 07, 2018
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freeman2001: I found a sort-of workaround for the problem if anyone else sees this and is having it.
Thanks for the research on this, freeman2001. Your workaround is working fine, and even if I have to change the resolution, at least I get high quality textures, antialiasing, etc.

Now if only Cyan would patch the Todelmer telescope blanking bug. :-(
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