MYST MASTERPIECE EDITION
by CYAN
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Product Summary
Brand: MYSTFormat: CD
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows XP
Publisher: CYAN
Video Game Reviews of MYST MASTERPIECE EDITION
Customer Review: XP Compatible..with the right trick
Summary: 4 Stars
While I never owned the original Myst, I played it many times on friends' computers. I have since played Riven under Win 98, and then upgraded to XP, and found that Myst III:Exile plays fine under XP.
So when I found out about Myst Masterpiece Edition, I wanted to buy it for a new laptop I just purchased. But I read all the customer reviews about the problems people were having getting MME to run under XP. Some people had no problems, while others couldn't get it to run.
But I found that some sellers' listings had a version of MME that only claimed to be Win 95 or Win 98 compatible. I found another group of sellers that listed a version claiming to be XP compatible, so I bought one of those.
It seemed to install properly: I chose NOT to install Direct X 6 when asked, since my new laptop already had Direct X 9. I did allow installation of Quick Time 4, since my new laptop had no Quicktime installation at all. But I still ran into the same problem many others had, it just would not run: even using compatibility mode for Win 95 or Win 98 didn't help, nor did changing to 256 colors or 640 x 480.
But then I tried to launch the Quicktime 4 player by itself, and it wouldn't run: this was the clue. I installed MME on my 10 year old PC with XP, but with Quicktime 7 already installed. Then the game worked fine. In fact, while I didn't need to run the compatibility mode for Win 95 or Win 98, just trying those options made it worse, the screen was blank, so I went back to not using the compatibility mode and it runs fine.
Some reviewers say you have to have an older version of Quicktime to get it to run under XP; my experience was just the opposite: running Quicktime 7 got it to work under XP. I doubt that the slower processor or older video card on my older PC was the answer, I think it was the newer version of Quicktime.
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