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What works
Game starts and displays the introduction video.
What does not
When attempting to use the initial book to link to Myst, the game crashes.
The installer should run as advertised with no additional tweaks to wine needed.
Before Running the Game
You will need to change a few config options in wine to get Myst:ME working properly.
Required (for Myst:ME to run): Set it for Win95/98 mode
Although the game works in a real WindowsXP environment, you must set wine to make it work in Windows 95 or 98 mode.
Run the program "regedit" (which is the Wine registry editor)
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/AppDefaults
If a "Myst.exe" key doesn't already exist, create it (right click > "New" > "Key" - Set the name to "Myst.exe")
in the "Myst.exe" key, create a new String Value and set it
to either "win95" or "win98" (both seem to work... "winme" might also
work)
Required (for video): Changing from DirectDraw to DCI (in QuickTime)
Go to the QuickTime preferences, via the tray icon... Right click > QuickTime Preferences
In the drop down box, pick "Video Settings"
Uncheck "Enable DirectDraw", and leave "Enable DCI" checked.
Suggested (for sound): DirectSound Buffer Sizes (in QuickTime)
Go to the QuickTime preferences, via the tray icon... Right click > QuickTime Preferences
In the drop down box, pick "Sound Out"
Click on the "Options..." button
Increase the "Fifo size in millisecs" (1000-2000 seems to work well for me)
Suggested (for better fullscreen): Set Myst:ME to run unmanaged
Run the program "regedit" (which is the Wine registry editor)
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/AppDefaults
If a "Myst.exe" key doesn't already exist, create it (right click > "New" > "Key" - Set the name to "Myst.exe")
In the "Myst.exe" key, create another key called "X11 Driver"
in the "Myst.exe/X11 Driver" key, create a new string value called "Managed" and set the value to "N"
Running the Game
To run Myst:ME, I suggest using the commandline:
nice -n 19 wine Myst.exe && xrandr -s 0
This seems to fix issues with sound, as well as returning you to your original resolution when Myst.exe exits
Workarounds for saving/loading
When you try to save a game for the first time, or load a saved
game, a file-save or file-load dialog window will pop up, taking the
game out of 640x480 mode (at least on my machine). This can cause
instability and will also not let you get back into fullscreen. there
are a few options to work around this:
Run your X server in 640x480 mode (complicated)
Run Myst in a virtual desktop in Wine (currently not working as of 0.9.12)
(this workaround is fairly easy, and it works!) The first
time you run Myst, save the game. Make note of the saved game file. The
default is MYST.MYS. Next, when you restart the game, specify the name
of the saved game file as an argument to the command. For example:
wine Myst.exe MYST.MYS
Not only will this load your saved game when myst starts, but now,
while you are playing and you save the game, it will save to MYST.MYS,
rather than popping up a file-save dialog.
Other Suggestions
There aren't necessary, but they may be helpful if you run into problems or glitches
Upgrade QuickTime
After QuickTime installs itself via the Myst installer, update to the latest quicktime via the tray icon.
Right click on the tray icon and select "Check for QuickTime Updates"
Use OSS instead of ALSA
ALSA might cause problems sometimes, although sometimes it works
better than OSS. To change from ALSA to OSS (or vice versa) do the
following:
Run the program "regedit" (which is the Wine registry editor)
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Drivers
Change the value of "Audio" from "alsa" to "oss" (to change
from ALSA to OSS) or from "oss" to "alsa" (to change from OSS to ALSA)
Switch from DirectSound to waveOut in OuickTime
Go to the QuickTime preferences, via the tray icon... Right click > QuickTime Preferences
In the drop down box, pick "Sound Out"
In the "Chose a device for playback" dropdown menu, select
one of the waveOut devices ("waveOut: Windows' preferred device" is
always a safe bet)
You may want to change the buffer size for the waveOut. To do so:
Click the "Options..." button
Increase the "Buffer size in millisecs" value (500-900 works well here)
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Version Key
by Biff on Monday April 8th 2013, 14:18
In the suggestion for setting the version ('win95' or 'win98') you might want to mention the key that needs to go into "Myst.exe" is 'Version'.
