mintee: I honestly cant be bothered to mess around with them anymore, the many hours spent tweaking the games have pretty much tarnished any nostalgia value left in them but really gog needs to put a disclaimer in their ad that there are complications with 64 bit customers.
yeah, i can understand that.
i have gotten the game to work flawlessly on this setup (win7 64-bit) before:
not a single crash, i could save without issues, all sounds and clips/movies played just fine. it was a completely smooth experience for me. i do remember i had to 'mess around' a bit before it would work properly, though.
so i'm going to install the game myself again, and keep track of what 'steps' i take to get the game to work.
and maybe it won't help anyone else at all, because maybe it's rather some kind of hardware-incompatibility or something.
hopefully it can help someone to get the game to work, because i'm just annoyed that most of you can't play this great game.
edit: sigh. it's already working. sounds play, movies play, i can save/load without issues. no crashes. all i did was:
uninstall quicktime
reboot
install myst ME
install quicktime lite 1.4.1 (the setup will ask you to install this)
(i only checked "QuickTime components [version 7.69.80.9]", and i also checked "Install Apple Application Support 1.4.1 Lite")
that's it. i did not even have to check any of the compatibility options in the shortcut/exe.
i'm wondering if there maybe are certain options in the nvidia control panel or CCC, that could interfere with myst ME..?
because i've had my share of issues with options from present video card drivers, when trying to play older games.
it's probably crucial to uninstall your current version of QT, and install the version provided by the myst ME installer. i've attached a screenshot of my nvidia (version 344.11) settings, in case anyone wants to check if any of those settings are the problem.