First, I love this site and reconnecting with old favorites.
Being the kind of guy who never throws out anything I put together a Windows 98 system from my junk closet to play Real Myst, since on XP the performance seemed just a bit spotty and the rendering slightly off , for example system pop-ups being blended into the scenery on occasion. I just unpacked the installer files and found the Myst startup exe and used it, skipping the XP compatibility stuff. Runs great.
Has anyone else tried this sort of thing? I'm mainly interested because I want to know if Riven will work the same way. Bonus point if it's been tried on an Nvidia 6200, which I'm going to try out next (using an older ATI card right now)...
Thanks,
--arne

I have a Win98 machine myself, for games like Thief and System Shock 2, which are nearly impossible to run on newer OS's (fingers crossed that GOG can figure it out). I haven't played Riven on this computer, but I can't imagine any reason why it wouldn't work -- wasn't Riven released in 1998? Maybe '97. In any case, you've pretty much got its native OS there, so if there's a problem, it's hardware related.
EDIT: Ohhhh, except possibly you mean will the GOG version run? There I have no idea. Quite possibly not. But the best way to find out is to try, and then tell the rest of us how it went.

EDIT: Ohhhh, except possibly you mean will the GOG version run? There I have no idea. Quite possibly not. But the best way to find out is to try, and then tell the rest of us how it went.
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Yes, I meant the GOG version. And I should have been clear that the version of "real Myst" I am running is also the GOG version, except that I installed it on XP, then copied the installation folder and uninstalled it. Moved the folder onto the 98 system and was good to go once a few file permissions were fixed up. I'm going to try the same thing with Riven I think, after I finish Myst

Just a followup. Riven works fine. Followed the same procedure as with realMyst: unpacked on XP (the unpacker won't run on 98SE) and copied to the 98SE system.
But... Riven is a bit of a disappointment compared to realMyst. The point-and-click pre-rendered scenes don't compare to the free motion in realMyst. The main reason I set up the 98SE system was to get good performance for realMyst, which seems to benefit a lot from running on a native 98SE implementation of DirectX. Doubt this would make much of a diff for RIven. Too bad they never re-rendered it for free motion.