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I have an old version of Myst IV and Myst III, and they run just fine on my windows 10 installation. Totally thrilled by this project though :) The series (and especially Riven) kept me in front of the computer for a loooong time in my youth.

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What black magic did you have to do to get Myst III to run fine on Windows 10? I tried it a couple months ago and it was so slow and janky and low-res that it wasn't playable. (Maybe because I was using a USB CD drive?)

I don't remember doing nothing special really. For the slowness, see my other reply. I usually don't run directly from the CD drive.

The one that gave me the most troubles was Riven (before I got it from GOG). For this one I had to do some mumbo-jumbo to finally get a full screen yeah.

Huh, I wonder where I went wrong. Exile just... didn't function. But then, I was trying to run it on my shiny new VR rig, so it might've just been hardware compatibility. :/ Thanks!

So you have a CD drive?

I gave up on CDs when I was dealing with a corrupt CD drive or SATA cable.

It was weird, but after I disconnected it, it took me years to use it, and that was for Ubuntu install.

External yeah. But for most of my old games (that are not yet on GOG) I just turn them into iso and use a no-cd when necessary. Too lazy to plug the drive every time :)

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