Karterii: Hi everyone,

I know, I know, another "Myst: Masterpiece Edition doesn't work, please help"-Thread. This game is known to be one of the problematic games here on Good Old Games because of Quicktime, from what I gathered. I am going to have a hard time explaining my problems here, because the game runs very inconsistently... Or to put it simply, it runs sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. This is me trying to play the game on Windows 10, for the record.

Here's my problem:

First, I installed Myst: Masterpiece Edition without doing anything special. That means, I used the installer to install the game and Quicktime Lite. No compatibility settings or anything else were changed. Result: The game does not run. It changes my screen's resolution to whatever the game's resolution was, and you get a black screen with white borders. No sound, no video, nothing - you won't see your cursor and you can't exit out of the game in general either.

Then I changed compatibility settings, tried a bunch of settings, and got the game to at least run to some extent. You can hear sound and see your cursor, but you are still staring at a black screen (no white borders). That means the game is running without Quicktime, I am guessing.

Of course, I uninstalled Myst: Masterpiece Edition (I will always write the full title of the game, excuse me) and also removed whatever Quicktime I had on my system. Then, I just reinstalled it the same way I did the first time and hit 'launch game' from the installer menu. "Hooray, it works!", I exclaimed. Videos, Sound, and everything was fine other than the fact that it didn't run in fullscreen. Sadly, I exited the game, and didn't get it to run again since. I swear that I didn't change any compatibility settings or anything else, but now I am back to the the white borders and the black screen.

So, naturally, I uninstalled Myst: Masterpiece Edition again, alongside Quicktime, and installed it again, alongside Quicktime, and launched it again from the installer menu. White borders. Black screen.

Pretty MYSTerious problem, don't you think? Me neither. Myst rarely ever worked for me since Windows XP. In fact, if it wasn't for that one time that it did work, I wouldn't even be writing this thread. I know there is no voodoo magic involved or anything, and I know I should be expecting consistent results (and I swear that I do expect them), but I am not getting any.

Can anyone provide me with any hints or solutions? (Other than downloading RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition, I mean)

Thank you very much!

Karterii: Hi everyone,

I know, I know, another "Myst: Masterpiece Edition doesn't work, please help"-Thread. This game is known to be one of the problematic games here on Good Old Games because of Quicktime, from what I gathered. I am going to have a hard time explaining my problems here, because the game runs very inconsistently... Or to put it simply, it runs sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. This is me trying to play the game on Windows 10, for the record.

Here's my problem:

First, I installed Myst: Masterpiece Edition without doing anything special. That means, I used the installer to install the game and Quicktime Lite. No compatibility settings or anything else were changed. Result: The game does not run. It changes my screen's resolution to whatever the game's resolution was, and you get a black screen with white borders. No sound, no video, nothing - you won't see your cursor and you can't exit out of the game in general either.

Then I changed compatibility settings, tried a bunch of settings, and got the game to at least run to some extent. You can hear sound and see your cursor, but you are still staring at a black screen (no white borders). That means the game is running without Quicktime, I am guessing.

Of course, I uninstalled Myst: Masterpiece Edition (I will always write the full title of the game, excuse me) and also removed whatever Quicktime I had on my system. Then, I just reinstalled it the same way I did the first time and hit 'launch game' from the installer menu. "Hooray, it works!", I exclaimed. Videos, Sound, and everything was fine other than the fact that it didn't run in fullscreen. Sadly, I exited the game, and didn't get it to run again since. I swear that I didn't change any compatibility settings or anything else, but now I am back to the the white borders and the black screen.

So, naturally, I uninstalled Myst: Masterpiece Edition again, alongside Quicktime, and installed it again, alongside Quicktime, and launched it again from the installer menu. White borders. Black screen.

Pretty MYSTerious problem, don't you think? Me neither. Myst rarely ever worked for me since Windows XP. In fact, if it wasn't for that one time that it did work, I wouldn't even be writing this thread. I know there is no voodoo magic involved or anything, and I know I should be expecting consistent results (and I swear that I do expect them), but I am not getting any.

Can anyone provide me with any hints or solutions? (Other than downloading RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition, I mean)

Thank you very much!

dbrizzee: @Truedosgamer. I'm running Win 7 Pro 64 bit. I've tried almost everything on all these threads and posts from numerous places. this is the only thing that worked. I just unclicked the mp3 coding box when installing quicktime. I then ran the game without using any compatibilities and it worked. I only ran the game 5 mins but there was absolutely no crashes. I did the clock tower without problems, the generator without problems and the stairs to the tower about 6 times without crashes. These are the places that crashed on me before unclicking the mp3 coding box. Sound is great without static or issues. This is the only fix that has worked for me.
Thank you so so much. Love this game

TrueDosGamer: No problem. Glad my method worked for Window 7 64-bit. I've only tested it on XP Pro 32-bit SP3 so far and that was one of the original issues I wanted to make sure what made the game worked properly on first install. I never did try MP3 association since it was already linked to VLC so I never experienced the problem you had with the sound. My original issues were graphical so I did several runs with different options to figure out what finally worked. Although I didn't play the game through to the end I have no idea if any problems would come around since this game was originally meant to run on Windows 95 / 98 and XP had the best compatibility to play it.

Windows 7 64-bit with XP compatibility mode enabled should be your backup plan if you experience any other issues playing it.