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Gabriel Knight wrote:

> You mean you were able to play myst 4?? No matter what I do I
> cant get it to play smoothly enough, I get the 3 second wait
> when moving around the myst world so it makes playing it very
> slow and uncomfortable, what version are you playing and what
> is your pc specs? Mine is the 2 disk DVD set. I love the look
> of this game but sadly it wont play good on my rigs - some 4 
> different pcs ive tried - they should make a patch. My main pc
> is a quad core.
> 

I have one of these too now. I just re-installed the game on that 
machine to have a look-see.

2*DVD release of the game (Red Disk + Blue Disk)(2004-09-05). 
Probably version 1.00, but i didn't start the game before 
updating. Anyway, option during install i chose 'Complete' and i 
have just over 7 GB installed in the chosen install-directory.

While the 1.01 & 1.02 updates are about 40 MB each, the third 
1.03 update ([myst4_v1.0_to_v1.03_pc.exe] as downloaded from 
Ubisoft) is less then 16 MB and as their names suggests any one 
of them updates from the 1.0 (logically 1.00) base game. Today i 
used only the 1.03 one and it installed fine and ingame it says 
'v1.03' in the lower left on the menu screens.

Thus updated the game plays quite smoothly for me, even without 
installing the No-DVD update. There is a transition of something 
like a second or so when i move to a new node, but i think of it 
as that i'm walking there (not light-speed teleport there) so i 
think it works ok. (You have a distinct graphics-card on your 
main game-machine i take it, and not (only) an integrated variant?)

( Now, had you asked about Myst III without a No-DVD update, 
*that* was totally unplayable for me. Take one step then having 
to wait for the disk to spin up, look around from the new 
location and meanwhile the disk stopped spinning. Repeat this for 
every step in the game. Gee!, and the wear and tear... 
thankfully, we don't have to play it like that. )


> 
> ( someone unnamed wrote: )
> 
>> Not me anyway. I haven't played Myst V yet, nor do i have
>> any book. I'm on a long hiatus from the series, got stopped
>> in my progress while in some contraption underneath the
>> planet-fragment in Myst IV. Too difficult, (was it another
>> sound-puzzle?,) got too frustrated, so i moved on to other 
>> games ... but i should go back and get through it, even if
>> i'll have to cheat. Someday..
>> 

Someday apparently was/is today.

On reinstalling today, when  upping all the graphics-settings and 
checking other options i notice one can access a 'help map' with 
several hint-levels.. Never remembered that last time when i got 
sick of being stuck, will see if i need it now .. if i continue 
playing this game now.


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Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion.

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