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Game play abundance

My Myst Uru: Complete Chronicles (CC) experience is unusual...

At the beginning of 2004, played Uru: Ages beyond Myst (Uru Prime), later played the To D'ni expansion pack, finally played the Path of the Shell (PotS) expansion pack. This trilogy was played on a 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM Windows ME PC.

That was a mistake.

Age loads were annoyingly slow, jump puzzles were arduous, game play was occasionally sloppy and Uru Prime, its 1.2 patch, To D'ni & PotS wouldn't install properly on my new computer.

Decided to replay Uru after upgrading to a 3.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM Windows XP Professional PC.

CC and upgraded hardware made a huge difference...

The above problems evaporated. With its images & sounds set on 'Ultra', CC became a vastly enhanced gaming experience. Images became real, three-dimensional. Sounds were varied and rich, you could feel their intricate textures.

Discovered only one gotcha, CC plays best on an 800 x 600 pixels setting. If your resolution is set too high, say 1600 x 1200 pixels, images are incorrectly rendered.

For others, there's another hardware gotcha,

"NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives."

If you have a single drive DVD computer, it's understandable: you'll opt for a DVD-RW.

If so, CC's anti piracy software may stop a DVD-RW installation dead in its tracks. Even if CC does install, it may not play properly.

So please consider this alternate...

A dual drive DVD computer is about $100 more than a single drive computer. In your dual drive computer, you have two DVDs:

A DVD and a DVD-RW.

This gives you the best of both worlds.