Any Mac gamers in here? Advice needed

External Since: Oct 06, 2004 Posts: 5

Hi there. I have a question for any Macintosh users in the group. I've
been a huge Myst fan right from the start and have been waiting
feverishly since Exile for the 4th installment. However, I'm not sure I
have the specs required.

I have a dual 500Mhz G4 running 10.3.x, tons of hard disk space, a
great wodge of memory and an ATI Radeon Pro 9000. I also have a Pioneer
108 DVD+/-RW drive fitted. What concerns me is that the minimum
requirements for Revelation is 700Mhz or better. Would my dual CPU
machine be enough?

I downloaded the demo from MacGamefiles (142 meg) and gave it shot.
After digging through all the Windoze DLLs and double clicked the Mac
icon, the screen went blank for a second and then I was dumped back
down to the Finder. This is what makes me suspect I might not be
compatible Sad

Also, I heard somewhere that the copy protection might cause the game
not to run on some DVDRW drives. I'd be interested if anyone has had
any problems with this.

TIA for any help. My credit card is burning a hole in my pocket!

Ghostlight

(PS. Although I thought that Exile was cool, I considered Riven to be
better. How does Revelation compare to Exile?)

External Since: Apr 28, 2004 Posts: 12

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:10:26 +0100, Ghostlight
<ghostlight76.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi there. I have a question for any Macintosh users in the group. I've
>been a huge Myst fan right from the start and have been waiting
>feverishly since Exile for the 4th installment. However, I'm not sure I
>have the specs required.
>
>I have a dual 500Mhz G4 running 10.3.x, tons of hard disk space, a
>great wodge of memory and an ATI Radeon Pro 9000. I also have a Pioneer
>108 DVD+/-RW drive fitted. What concerns me is that the minimum
>requirements for Revelation is 700Mhz or better. Would my dual CPU
>machine be enough?
>
>I downloaded the demo from MacGamefiles (142 meg) and gave it shot.
>After digging through all the Windoze DLLs and double clicked the Mac
>icon, the screen went blank for a second and then I was dumped back
>down to the Finder. This is what makes me suspect I might not be
>compatible Sad

>
>Also, I heard somewhere that the copy protection might cause the game
>not to run on some DVDRW drives. I'd be interested if anyone has had
>any problems with this.
>
>TIA for any help. My credit card is burning a hole in my pocket!
>
>Ghostlight
>
>(PS. Although I thought that Exile was cool, I considered Riven to be
>better. How does Revelation compare to Exile?)

I use Windows XP so I can't answer your first question, but I can give
my opinion on your last one. I absolutely loved Riven and after
playing it I thought Exile was kind of a let-down. I didn't like some
of the Exile puzzles and the whole thing seemed kind of tedious.
Revelation is a lot more like Riven and I'm loving it so far. I think
it's all the cut scenes that make it more interesting, or maybe it's
the beautiful graphics, I'm not sure. It's just a lot more fun to
play than Exile was. I've had to use the in-game hint system a few
times, and that was nice, but you don't have to even enable it if you
don't want to.

Before I bought it I was a little worried that it might be another
dud, but it's definitely worth the price. I'm not sure that you can
get a refund, though, if you can't get it to work on your Mac. I seem
to remember a lot of complaints about URU not being returnable for any
reason,. (Several people had graphic card issues.) There's a list of
which video cards the game is compatible with and it's a pretty short
list. "At the time of release - ATI Radeon 7500-9600 or better, and
NVIDIA Geforce 2/4/FX families or better" were the only two listed.

Good luck.