just finished real myst, I loved this version I'm throwing out my cd version of masterpeice as I never want to play that version again.
After I finally solved the piano tune puzzle the rest was a breeze. (found adjusting mouse to slowest movement allowed me to slide the levers to the correct tone)

I totally did all of those things and got it to work! Amazing.
I know very little about computers, but I tried playing it with top graphics without any compatability mode and yeah, walking along the pier was fine, but in the forest was terrible. Very laggy. So I try running as Admin, like someone else did, turned down the graphics properties - yeah it was okay, still a little jerky in places, and the textures looked like mud pie but it worked.
I come across your post, do a little compatability mode, set the graphics back up to top top top quality, and it works fine!
Okay, it's not like playing Need for Speed, but it works okay it terms of just a little lag or frame-rate drop or whatever you call it.
I have Vista 32, and am using service pack 2 compatability, not 3, because I haven't got it.
I have the resolution at 1280 x 800 32 bit and the textures at high. And Mobile Intel 4 series express chipset family [direct 3d hal].
I never played the the original Myst, I was too young when Riven came out to appreciate that, but I started Riven a few weeks ago, and that game is amazing! I can't wait to start them all.
Great!

Ok, so I ran it as admin and set the compatibility but when I tried to change the 3D Hardware I got a window saying that my changes couldn't be saved. Does anyone know what I should do?

Check the folder properties to make sure they aren't set to read only? Sounds like it can't save the preferences because they are read only, right click on the realmystsetup.exe and check computability/read-write settings.

Funny thing - I don't own RealMyst from GoG - but I did manage to get my real copy of it working on W7 x64 a while back.... here is my post explaining it in another forum:
http://www.mystcommunity.com/board/index.php?showtopic=33525
Now the link in that post to the page explaining the hex edit mods that were required to make the game "work" on Vista/7 is not working. However later in the thread you can find a link to the modified EXEs that I made available for people that didn't want to deal with the hex editing themselves.
This stopped the lag and after installing Indeo, the game seemed to work. However once I got a bit further into the game, I started running into stability issues. So your mileage may vary here.

I have done all of this step by step and still can't get the game to run.
I am running Windows 7 64 and have a NVIDIA Geforce GT220 card with the latest drivers.
The game will come on for about a second and then the computer reverts back to the desktop immediately.
Any other suggestions that I could try?
Thanks!

I also am having problems with realMyst freezing very early on in the game. I am running Windows Vista. I've tried running setup as an admin, but can't find anything about changing compatibility.

I'm also running Vista Home Premium 32 bit. To change compatibility, right click on whichever file you're trying to change (not the icon on your desktop or start menu, the setup, start, or main programme file), then click on "properties", then click on "compatibility".

On my Ubuntu 64 Bit system, it crashes very often with

[i]wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x0000004c at address 0x7e7dffd8 (thread 0029), starting debugger...
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It requires a little knowledge of hex editors but i can say it works perfect for me.

2 things:

1. If you are running a 64 bit system Make sure that you have realMyst installed in "Program Files" and not "Program Files (x86)"

2. You Can Still Use T&L and HAL in realMYST. Of course I have the nVidia 9800GT. The problem is that you do not need to use XP Service Pack 3 mode. Do not use compatibility mode and do not change of the compatibility settings except for running the app as administrator.

In the realMYST main Directory, there is an application named realMYST Setup, run this as admin. It should detect 3d Hardware automatically. Under Basic Settings, select the first instance of your video card that has HAL and T&L. Then select the resolution that your desktop can handle. It helps to have the latest Drivers installed for your graphics card.

nVidia users go here:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us


ATI Users go here (I feel sorry for ATI users after seeing the way they have to figure out what type of card they have instead of searching for the actual brand of the card. It should be noted that the nVidia Patches automatically uninstall the old set of drivers);

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
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The next part is for nVidia Users:
Open up the nVidia control panel and select Manage 3D settings.
On the right hand pain, there should be 2 tabs Global Settings and Program Settings.
Click on the "Add" button and select the file realmyst.exe and change the settings there.
Run realMystStart.exe as administrator.

there you go, problem solved.

Brilliant, this works great! Everything is working fine now. Thank you, walmartcartpush. Simple solutions are always the best.

Thank you for your help with RealMyst. Thanks to your instructions the game runs perfectly in Windows 7 platform. :)