I have an HP laptop and it has Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit System. I have my favorite game, Riven (made in 1997, supposedly a 32-bit game) and i want to.

I've recently developed an itch for classic adventure games, and figured I might as well start with Myst and Riven. However, I've seen a number of posts on the GoG formus discussing problems with these two games. My question: I run Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition. Will I be able to run GoG's versions without any major problems? Create M3u Download.

Also, will I have issues running Quicktime, given the version differences between what's available now and what the games were designed for? I'm not averse to doing some tweaking to get it working. Tyrian411: I've recently developed an itch for classic adventure games, and figured I might as well start with Myst and Riven. However, I've seen a number of posts on the GoG formus discussing problems with these two games. My question: I run Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition. Will I be able to run GoG's versions without any major problems?

Also, will I have issues running Quicktime, given the version differences between what's available now and what the games were designed for? I'm not averse to doing some tweaking to get it working. Hi, welcome to gog.

I'm running W7 64bit myself and i have the 4 games from the Myst series installed at this time and they are all working fine. I didn't had to do any tweaking, other than apply specific compatibility settings to each of the games' shortcuts.

In RealMyst's case i also had to change the 3D settings using the provided configuration tool but that was it. Unlike the CD and DVD versions of Myst and Riven, i didn't have to mess around with quicktime files or downgrade my currenlty installed version of Quicktime, which is v 7.6.5 (518.40). All 4 games worked 'out of the box' so to speak. Naturally, given the specificity of each machine in regards to hardware/software combination, i think no one can guarantee that you won't have to do a bit of tweaking or at least play around wiht the compatibility settings, but i see no reason why the games shouldn't work for you.

I was experiencing the same audio issues as you guys, with all the settings mentioned on Windows 7 64-bit. I consulted the oracle (google) and came up with the following fix that completely worked for me: Go to the Riven directory. For me it was C:/Program Files (x86)/GOG.com/Riven Open the mohawk.w32 in wordpad.

Change fEnableAudioProxy=true to fEnableAudioProxy=false, then save. WIth me, that fixed all the sound issues. There are still some animations missing, and Artimus's journal still flips 2 pages sometimes, but the game is playable now. Wwy00: Don't Laugh: I am running Windows 8.

I was able to get Riven to work successfully. Myst does not run. I can start it and get to the point where I am landed on the dock. But the first motion I try locks it up.

I tried the various versions of quick time. Versions 7 and 6 give me the lock up mentioned. Version 5 does not get me much of anything.

Any help you can give me will be much appreciated. Wwy00 i'm new here and its already 2014 i'd like to buy all the myst games and play them on my machine which has windows 8.1 working (i hate this os on my laptop) wondering what sort of things you ran into with 8.1?

As much discussion as I see here about problems running Riven on new operating systems, I wanted to share my discovery of a successful fix: I had the game running on my installation of Win7-64bit Professional with a quad-core processor, but I was trying to use the version of Quicktime that was originally distributed with the 10th anniversary Masterpiece Edition. The movies did not play. For anyone who knows the series, you can't frkin play it without the movies! So, hunting down this Vista patch for Riven, and using THAT version of quicktime seems to have solved the problem for me, along with running it in compatibility mode.