Still can't play on windows 10

[Wookiee_hairem]

Went back and forth with Cyan support (shout out to you guys on the speedy replies and suggestions) but still cannot get this game to start up. Has anyone been able to nail down what the problem is with windows 10 that makes this game unplayable/unable to start? I realize this game is old as hell but I bought the collection and would like to finish it someday.

Things I have tried:
Dedicating the gpu to play the game.
Turn off/on all the human interface devices
setting user and system dpi to 100% (it was set to 125%)

[Ghidrah1]

I run win 10 64 home, have an EGVA geforce 1050 vid card and 16 gb of ddr memory. I'm bummed for you and feel lucky that I haven't had any of the issues others have had with their games.

don't know if this is relevant can you get into task manager to see what if anything is sucking up cpu when you start the game?

[Wookiee_hairem]

I could if the game would start at all.

[Halloween Jack]

Originally posted by Wookiee_hairem:

I could if the game would start at all.

It seems the suggestion is to start Task Manager first, then with it running and you monitoring it, then try starting Myst IV and see what - if anything - changes in Task Manager as the action tries to complete.

[Wookiee_hairem]

Tried it. No luck. It's sincerely amazing to me how one can buy a game in 2021 and it not work. Extremely frustrating, especially since all the other games in this collection work except this one.

[Halloween Jack]

Originally posted by Wookiee_hairem:

Tried it. No luck. It's sincerely amazing to me how one can buy a game in 2021 and it not work. Extremely frustrating, especially since all the other games in this collection work except this one.

Sorry I can't help you more on this, but I don't want to ask for your email in a public forum. If I knew what it was, I could doublecheck your emails to [e-mail] and see if there are any other possibilities that may have been missed.
If you want to email again, and let them know your username here on Steam for reference, we can check.

[Saftle]

This should fix your issue: https://github.com/riverar/IndirectInput/releases

Download dinput.dll and place in your /bin folder.

@Halloween Jack: It would be amazing if you guys would be able to add this fix this in the native game, since plenty of people on Windows 10 can't play the game currently.

I also threw the fix in other issues with the same problem: https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/2806204040007530463/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/1751232561629702086/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/3393916911757735209/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/2619338518536655185/

[Splashdown64]

Why will this game not start?

[DarthTasty]

Originally posted by Saftle:

This should fix your issue: https://github.com/riverar/IndirectInput/releases

Download dinput.dll and place in your /bin folder.

@Halloween Jack: It would be amazing if you guys would be able to add this fix this in the native game, since plenty of people on Windows 10 can't play the game currently.

I also threw the fix in other issues with the same problem: https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/2806204040007530463/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/1751232561629702086/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/3393916911757735209/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/925940/discussions/0/2619338518536655185/

Can confirm, dinput.dll fixes launch issues

[ginley2]

If you're on Windows 10, this should fix your issue: https://github.com/riverar/IndirectInput/releases

Download dinput.dll and place in your /bin folder.

[teddybaerchen]

dinput.dll will work for me on a SurfacePro6 win10 64bit

[Ecthelion]

dinput.dll works perfectly, thanks !

[wildboy6000]

I tried adding the dinput.dll file into the /bin folder and still am unable to get it to start. All i would get is a quick flash of a program opening up down on my task bar, but just as quickly disappear. Even when I have task manager up I only get a flash that the program is trying to run but won't boot up. Anything else i can look at to decipher what my issue is with the game?

[Smurf_Guerilla]

I've downloaded the dinput.dll how do I put it in the correct drive?

[Halloween Jack]

Originally posted by Saftle:

@Halloween Jack: It would be amazing if you guys would be able to add this fix this in the native game, since plenty of people on Windows 10 can't play the game currently.

Agreed, but Cyan isn't the original developer of the code and cannot update the games to include the fix.

[Saftle]

Originally posted by Halloween Jack:

Agreed, but Cyan isn't the original developer of the code and cannot update the games to include the fix.

The source code is available on the same page, and has the MIT license which can be distributed with commercial projects.

Or do you mean Ubisoft Montreal would need to add it?