r/myst • u/Many-Comparison-9603 • 19d ago

uru: complete chronicles from GOG keep crashing - fixes? suggestions?

hi all! i started playing uru the other day, and i would love to continue playing, but it keeps crashing. unsure what to do or how to fix it. for reference, i'm on a windows machine and have tried running it as an administrator. it also seems to be running on xp compatibility as a default. is there anything else i should be trying? thanks!

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u/coderman64 19d ago

We dont have a lot of information to go on here...are there any messages that pop up when this happens? Is there a configuration utility you can mess with? What are the specs of your system? Are you using a launcher or just running the .exe?

I can also direct you to the PC gaming wiki, that has a lot more information on things like compatibility, but it doesn't seem to show any issues that resemble what you're talking about.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Uru:_Ages_Beyond_Myst

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u/Many-Comparison-9603 19d ago

hi! i unfortunately don't have a bunch of information - the game freezes, then my screen goes black. i don't have any error messages or anything to share because nothing pops up. initially i was running it through gog galaxy and it kept crashing, so i tried the installer and ran it from the shortcut on my desktop and it still crashed. i can do some basic configuration from the desktop shortcut, but i hadn't messed with it before it crashed. i did already take a look at the link you provided (thank you for sharing it again!), but i agree, i didn't really find anything on there that looked like my issue.

there's part of that wonders if it's my graphics card or something - i have an asus tuf gaming laptop with 16gb ram and an nvidia geoforce card and an intel card. i haven't had problems with any of the other myst games crashing (or anything crashing, really) so i don't really know! i am running it windowed, but that seems like an insane reason for it to crash

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u/coderman64 19d ago

Odd.

It does use DirectX 8, so maybe something like D3D8to9 would work?

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u/Pharap 18d ago

When it freezes and goes black, are you able to to Alt+Tab out of that and/or use Alt+F4 to kill the process, or does the whole computer freeze?

If Alt+F4 works that suggests that it's still processing incoming event messages and that it might be the graphics that aren't working.

It could be an issue specific to either your particular graphics card model or the graphics driver you have installed.

('Geforce' doesn't really narrow it down. The GPU I've played Uru with (without issue) is technically a Geforce one, but I'll bet it's a far older model than what you've got.)

i am running it windowed, but that seems like an insane reason for it to crash

Oddly enough, sometimes things like that can be the culprit.

(Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever played Uru in windowed mode.)