Hi, my name is Judy & I'm a gameaholic.

Hi!

Playing Simon the Sorcerer (1993) and Myst Masterpiece on Windows 7 32bit. Both games downloaded from GOG and both play perfectly.

Mary

Great, Mary! I'll add Simon the Soucerer, but will wait a bit on Myst Masterpiece. I downloaded RealMyst from GOG, but it won't play on my 64-bit. I'm doing a little trouble-shooting before I post on it though. I will try to get the Myst games all in one place, if possible.

I also downloaded RealMyst from GOG. Didn't work well at all. Black screen, real s l o w mouse movement even during black screen.

Oh, that breaks my heart. I was so looking forward to replaying that particular Myst game on my new computer; I have 64-bit also.

Mary, I did get my Myst Masterpiece edition running. It took quite a bit of tweaking, but it worked. Look under the heading "Games that didn't work or needed lots of tweaking" or some such in my list in this thread. Don't remember what I called it now!

I was talking about RealMyst; that's not in the Masterpiece edition, or is it? I know I bought my RealMyst as a stand alone game.

I don't think so. But if you give it a try, let us know if it works for you. Mine was the download from GOG which has the full 360 degree movement.

I dug out my RealMyst--not much luck yet. A question first: how do I stop Windows from asking my permission for a program to make changes to my computer?

So far, it says that the game installed, but when I try to run it, I get a black screen for a few seconds and then it crashes. The error messge I get is "A game critical file (win_init.dat) is missing . You need to reinstall the game."

I haven't tried that step yet; I've got to make dinner and will try to reinstall later, unless you've got other ideas for me.

Update: I found out how to shut down the "permission" requests, but that didn't help any.
I uninstalled the game and then reinstalled the game and tried all different kinds of compatibility modes and the game did the same thing each time: goes to black screen for an instant and then crashes.

Just an update on Sacred 2. I got the expansion also and couldn't get it running on my 64 bit Windows 7. But with much frustration and a lot of help from some great folks at a website called Dark Matters I was able to tweak the game and it now runs great. If anyone else ventures into the game on win 7 and wishes help I can either help or point them in the right direction. I probably won't read this thread that much so if anyone wants my help feel free to email or PM me.

Draclvr,
I looked over your installation tweaks for Myst Masterpiece. If you uninstall the QuickTime that is on the machine now to reinstall an older version, will that screw up other things you do on the computer? (I assume you can find the older versions by googling for it?)

I'm sure it might affect certain things that require a newer version of QuickTime. I uninstalled the new version and then let the game install it's preferred version of QuickTime. After you play the game, you would need to go back and reinstall the new QuickTime. I just did it the other day. But in the meantime, I didn't have any issues with anything.

Hi; does anyone know if Black Dahlia will install & run on Win 7 64 bit.? Enquiring minds want to know? Judy

Judith, check out Hamer's post just down a couple. He says he found a patch which allows the game to run on Vista and Win 7. If you try it out, let me know how it works.