For example the 5 CD version is perhaps the lowest, however for an anniversary version of the game that was released on DVD, the video was re-compressed at a higher bitrate. The quality of the graphics/video on each version of Riven differs. For a list of required files, see the wiki entry for the game you’re playing. To add a multi-CD game, copy the required data files from the CD to a folder on your hard drive. The tool Riveal that is mentioned is here: Multi-disc games ScummVM needs access to all the data files, so it will not be able to run directly from a CD if the game has multiple discs. Rather, more relevant to this discussion is this thread where people have looked into improving the graphical quality of Riven, perhaps now's a good time to revisit this: If we can find out what filter they used, un-dithering the images - effectively increasing their colour depth - might theoretically be relatively easy if we have to guess, on the other hand, it'll probably be a LOT of work involving some heavy DSP.Ĭyan have/had been pretty open about how they've done various parts of their games.Īnd fans of the game have also tried to dissect it before: So the solution was just to do with Scumm Development Build.Robot_Maker20 wrote:Regarding image quality, it looks very much as if Cyan used some kind of diamond-shaped dithering effect on the rendered still shots in Riven, which will probably have looked a lot better on contemporary CRT monitors than it does on modern flatscreens. When you remerge the game into one directory, file C. A and B are on separate disks so yo make a file C with just the right parts of A and B. ![]() Lets say you need a part of file A and a part of file B for some particular part of the game. This is probably redundancy because of the 5 disks thing. Happy adventuring! Oh god, thank you very much AbacusFinch, I tried this solution found elsewhere, but didn't worked because I chose Scumm Stable Build, so I tried another solution, not working too, and I was going to just give up. I had the same extra files, so its not just you. I hope this is helpful to people, I know it's not the perfect workaround but if you've exhausted a lot of options then ideally this will be what you've been looking for. What solved it for me was trying out different ScummVM nightly builds, trying both 32 bit and 64 bit, stable and development. If you press start and ScummVM tells you that you're missing files, double check that all the files you need are in your Data folder (remember you need Riven.exe in there too). Also a nifty feature of ScummVM is that you can press F4 and it draws the selection boxes around the clickable zones in the game. Press F5 in game to bring up a menu which allows you to save, load and quit. To play the game in fullscreen, press Edit Game, go to the graphics tab, tick override global graphic settings and then tick fullscreen mode. Now select the game in your ScummVM main menu and press start. (You don't need to go into the Data folder, just select it).Ĥ. Select Add Game and navigate to your Riven folder, select the Data folder and press choose. Open the ScummVM folder we extracted earlier and run ScummVM. Copy or move your Riven.exe file into the Data folder.ģ. You should have all the files you need (ignore the optional ones) barring one, which we will cover in the next step.Ģb. Check that you have the necessary data files in one folder, which for me was Galax圜lient/Games/Riven/Data. Drag the folder from the zip to your desktop or wherever you prefer.Ģa. The build I downloaded was right at the bottom, Windows (64bit), and I downloaded the latest development build rather than the latest stable build (the stable build kept saying I was missing data files so I was unable to launch the game). I will paraphrase what he tells you to do as well as including some additional steps that I needed to take to make it work with the GOG version as his version assumes you have the game on CD/DVD.ġ. AbacusFinch: I found a helpful Reddit post that details a method of playing Riven on modern operating systems (Windows 10 for me) and it works like a charm so far.
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