I installed realmyst yesterday and played for about an hour or so. Then it suddenly closed and I have been unable to get back into the program. Every time I try the cd drives spins up the screen goes black, then the drive stops and the screen reverts back to my desktop. I've dowloaded the patch and the same thing happened. I have windows XP SP2 and an ATI 9600XT graphics card.

Did you check this out? I had the same problem.

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