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From: jjjohnst@indiana.edu (Jerry Johnston)
Subject: Myst slows after a while (help!)
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 22:38:49 GMT

Hi..

I've been playing Myst (*a lot*) since I bought it two weeks ago, and it is 
simply the most amazing game I've ever seen.  I've never experienced anything 
like it!

My only complaint is, that after running the program for ~1 hour or so, the 
program starts accessing my hard drive excessively.  The game then either 
begins to crawl, or hangs the computer completely.

I had a huge Win swap file (about 19 Meg) before I called Broderbund tech 
support.  They were certain that dropping my swap file size to about 10 Meg 
would fix this problem.  (Something about a known Microsoft bug, etc...). 

Well, this fix didn't help my problem much at all.  Instead of waiting on hold 
for tech support again, I thought I'd see if anyone here has conquered similar 
problems.

BTW, I'm running Myst on a 486-66 w/ 2x Mitsumi CD, 8 Meg RAM, SB16

Any help would be appreciated!

Jerry Johnston
jjjohnst@indiana.edu