When I initially started playing Myst IV: Revelation I was surprised how excited I was. Visually fantastic, taking photos so exciting, listening while reading their journals, magic! The only disappointment which got to the point where playing the game was impossible was the graphics, light, pixels whatever it was started blocking out whole scenes. So I thought Oh No please not another game where my Mac isn't powerful enough, my video card not appropriate, bugs which no one else had, crap. BUT I decided to go online and do a bit of searching and there were these bug fixes. They don't specifically talk about my problem but I thought 'cup half full' it may work but the cynic inside me wanting to give up and rage at the world. I wasn't sure if I needed to put both patches on 1.0.1 and then 1.0.3 but decided to go with 1.0.3 just to see what happens. This had problems unzipping (the download probably didn't work) so I decided to go with 1.0.1. It worked, it worked, oh joy, oh bliss. My emac was powerful enough. So now I can get back to the frustration of this damn game where I have no idea on how to get to the garden...I think I will cheat.

This updater also s**ks it can't find the game even when I gave the correct path.
I installed the game, but later moved it (for space problems on the starup disk) to another HD.

Why can't the programmers get it into there heads that many people don't want there games on the startup disk.

You can say " move it back to the startup disk, and then run the patch"... But I don't have that space on the startup disk to move it back.

For MUCH improved play on mid-aged Macs that aren't allowed to select 1024x768 in options (changing the resolution upwards made a huge difference to how smoothly the game played for me):


1. First, just to be extra-specially safe, do a backup of your saves.
2. Find your Myst application file, the one you double click to play the game. It should be called "myst4".
3. Ctrl-click (right click if you have a two button mouse (Steve would be ashamed of you) on "myst4" and choose the option called "Show Package Contents".
4. This should open a folder, containing a few files and another couple of folders. Locate the file "detect_config.dsc" and open it in TextEdit (open up TextEdit and drop it onto TextEdit's icon). You should get something like this:

;
;OSX system environment
;

{system
frequency ( 826 )
}
{Detection
{GameOptions
MaximumResX ( 800 )
MaximumResY ( 600 )
SuggestedResX ( 640 )
SuggestedResY (480)
GraphicsQuality (0)
}
}


5. To be safe, make a copy of the file. To do this hold down the Alt key and drag the file to the desktop. This should copy it (you'll see a little green cross). If it moves it, put it back and copy/paste it to another location.
6. Change the MaximumResX to 1024 and MaximumResY to 768. Save your changes to the file.
7. Now, if you run Myst now it'll check your system again and overwrite the changes we just made. What we need to do is lock the file. To do this go back to the Finder and select the file. Go to "File:Get Info" or press Command (Apple) + I. This should open up a little window with information about the file. Check the checkbox next to the word "Locked". When you close the little window you should see a small padlock on the file's icon.
8. Launch Myst (be sure to click on the "myst4" application file and not one of the files inside it).
9. You should now be able to play at 1026x768. It made a big difference to me, but might not be beneficial to you.
10. If it screws up in some way, just replace the changed file with the copy we made of it, but make sure the name is the same.

I had trouble getting the Safari-downloaded demo to run on my 1.25 G4 Powerbook until I used Stuffit 8.0.2 to directly unzip the MIV_demo.zip file which was in the trash.

The Myst4 application seems to run ok with the demo folder right on the desktop, and does not need to be moved to any special folders.

Also, when started, the screen goes black and it takes almost a full minute to get started, so be patient.

yep, it wouldn't launch for me either. on my g4 867, OS 10.3.5, 768 ram. any solutions?

Don't works on my Dual G5!