Riven - Game Compatibility with Windows 10, 64 bit

[Leistung]

So far, when I turn on Riven, it will intialy run just fine. However, when I leave the game, after having saved progress in a file, Riven will not remember that saved file. As a result, you end up beginning the game all over again. Even if you go to File Explorer and click on that saved file, it will not run. I honestly haven't tried to figure out why that file will not run, so I'll try to solve that if I can.
Furthermore, once you have played the game for awhile on Windows 10, Riven may just freeze , while no controls work. The only thing that will work is pressing the Windows key on the key board and then clicking on whatever selections appeared on that task bar, that showed up. I tried to open another window during the game freeze, but that didn't work. So far, to get out of a frozen Riven: I have to press the windows key on the keyboard, then select the windows selection on the task bar that appears, then click 'power' to select 'restart' for the computer.
Another annoying issue with Riven is that the game will crash. One minute you are enjoying the game, the next it suddenly disappears and you are back to the Steam page, which was running in the background as you played Riven. I have tried to change the "launch set-up" options; by right clicking the word "Riven" in the Steam Library list, then selcting 'properties', finally discovering "launch set-up options"- something like that. On that page, I changed it to " /affinity 1". This was done in following the instructions I found on Steam for preventing Riven from crashing.
My questions are: Is Riven designed so that it will only work based on old computer hardware? Is it possible to make it so that Riven will know to run only using what it needs to run, while operating on newer processers like Windows 10?

[Noitalever]

Try using compatibility mode.

[whatever drive you have it on C for most people] -> Program Files [It might be Program Files (x86)] - Steam -> steamapps -> common -> Riven. That could be entirely wrong depending on where you installed it to, but basically you have to find the Riven folder. Within that folder, find the application. It should end in .exe. Right-click it and select properties. Click on the compatibility tab, try setting it to win xp service pack 3, if that does not fix the problem also try vista and me. Windowed mode also can help.

[Leistung]

Thank you for the detailed instructions; it certainly helped. So far the only hiccups have been:
1) After following your instructions Noitalever, I go to turn the game on via Steam. As soon as it starts to run, there was a pop-up saying that it could not load saved game and was starting a new one.
2) Riven was then up and running. While in the course of playing the game, it did freeze up. However, before doing anything to solve the freeze, I left the computer to do something else. When I came back, Riven was back to running smoothly.
Is there a loading issue with Riven?
[The freeze up is reaccuring, but then will go back to working after a little time]

[Noitalever]

You are welcome. First see if this is something that repeatedly happens or if it is a one time thing. It might work better under a different compatibility mode for some people 95 actually worked best. you can also change the number of processors while playing the game, the compatibility mode may have messed up your prior settings through steam;

Run the game, tab out and open task manager with crtl-alt-delete. Go to the processes tab and select riven.exe, right click it and choose "Set Affinity..." Uncheck all the CPUs except for the first one, which should be CPU 0. You would need to do that everytime you play.

[2jgs]

Hi, I'm having the same problems with windows 10 and no matter what I trry, it's always the same.
Is there a fix coming out, such as was done with Myst? I played the Riven years ago and really enjoyed it, I would like to play it again but it is so frustrating that I'm not sure I will continue unless there is a fix.
Sure hope someone can help :)

[Noitalever]

No fix anytime soon I am afraid. May need to try installing an older version of quicktime, "havent tested these instructions on a computer running Windows 10 that cannot run it in compatility mode alone so we will may need to do some tinkering until it works);

Try running in compatibility mode for windows 95(also try 98 if that does not work), as well as checking the boxes to run in 256 color mode and 640x480 screen resolution, and disable visual themes.

Download Quicktime 4.1.2 from the following link, try installing it without compatibility mode at first and see if it opens, if seems to run without error go ahead and exit out and try running Riven, otherwise uninstall and run the installer in compatibility mode and be sure to set the program to open in the same compatibility mode, try compatibitity mode for Windows 7 and work your way down until it works.
http://filehippo.com/download_quicktime_alternative/download/fd9124ffee8719472e3f8d98d7dd7e55/

Please let me know how it goes.

[Black Ice]

Just finished the game (again) on W10 Anniversary version (1607) - 64 bit. Ran it without compatibility settings, just native W10 without a glitch. Only thing I did have to do was change the Affinity settings as mentioned above.

[Jackal]

Hi everyone,

I recently got hold of a DVD version of Riven but I am unable to install the game on Windows 10. I can run it on ScummVM but cannot install it normally on the computer. Any suggestions ?