Update: Riven X 0.9.1 is now available to resolve the multi-disc installation issue (lp:577641).
Update 2: Riven X 0.9.2 is now available to resolve another multi-disc installation bug.
Update 3: Riven X 0.9.3 is now available to resolve an issue in the installer on Tiger.
Update 4: Riven X 0.9.4 is now available to resolve an issue with the village trapeze (lp:577758).
Update 5: Riven X 0.9.5 is now available to resolve a crash at launch on Tiger. (lp:577893) .
Update 6: Riven X 0.9.6 is now available to resolve another crash at launch on Tiger (lp:578062).
After a long development cycle, Riven X 0.9 is finally available. This is an almost-complete version of the game with only a few features remaining and some polish. The game should be entirely playable from start to finish.
Release notes
Download Riven X 0.9.6 (1.9 MB)
Enjoy!
54 Responses to “Riven X 0.9 is now available”
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Great work, although I don’t have a Mac.
Reminds me to put some more work in mhkplayer again. Your code is well appreciated to check some stuff when I get confused about how some pecularities should work.
The real urgency is actually gone, because gog.com sells a version of riven that actually works well under Windows Vista. I willl try however to get mine as far as yours is now, i.e. possible to play the full game.
thank you thank you thank you!!!
Thanks for this great work!
Are the system requirements still current? Because I get a crash on startup in 10.4.11, and the log says:
Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib
Reason: image not found
Which figures, because apparently this version can be found only in 10.6, right?
Tomorrow I’ll reboot and give it a try in a more recent system.
The issue with libcrypto on Tiger has been resolved. You will need to directly download Riven X 0.9 again if you don’t have an old copy, since obviously you can’t use the old 0.9 version to update.
Awesome. Great to have it fully playable at last!
Just one beef I have with this version: Saved games are stored in my Documents folder. I really think app support or prefs would be better.
Andrew: I dunno, saved games are documents in my mind. I’ll consider your feedback for the final release.
Great! A new release of RivenX. This is always a good excuse to break out my Riven DVD again.
BTW, your RivenX project page still has a download link to version 0.8.3.
Thanks for the notice, I’ve updated the page.
I’m so happy this came out. Great way to try out my new MBP!!!
thanks for all your hard work, Riven is truly a work of art that should never be forgotten!
Thanks. I like my Documents folder to be for *me* to use, not programs
Btw, is it possible to install the game data inside the application bundle? What I’d like to do is make a ‘portable’ copy of Riven, that I can burn to disc or something and transfer around (or even run straight off the disc) without any setup.
thank you so much! we really appreciate all the work you do to keep this great game alive on the mac
Great Work! Thank you a lot!
I will play it and test it (again) in the next days.
Btw: The RivenX project page has a download link to an older Version without the Tiger fixes.
Magnificent!
Thanks so much for making those changes for Tiger! Works perfectly!! Can’t wait for 1.0!!!
Hello,
Just downloaded Riven X 0.9.6 and after installing from my 5cd set I get an error message: Riven X failed to find a supported graphics card. You may try upgrading to a newer verison of Mac OS X, or to a more powerful computer.
My graphics card is nvidia 6200 256MB agp on 10.4.11 in a dual g4 cube.
Is there a way to add this card to the supported list? Thanks.
It’s great! Been playing it for a couple of days and really enjoying the nostalgia here… Does anyone else seem to have a little laggy performance, or is it just my GMA 950?
Do you have an ETA on when this will be competed? I’ve been coming back to check this out for about one year now and I’ve seen the progress you’ve been making. I just wondered when this might be completed.
Hello, could you allow more graphics cards to be identified?
Tried to compile under 10.4.11 ppc adding the following to RXWorldView.m
case kCGLRendererGeForceFXID:
renderer_name = @”NVIDIA GeForce 6200″;
break;
But I hit some other snags and so far I’m unable to get a build (xcode 2.5).
Thanks
iVan: sorry, no. Riven X has modest OpenGL requirements and unfortunately the drivers for that card do not provide them, and neither does the software renderer on Tiger for PowerPC Macs. You may want to upgrade to Leopard, which should at least allow you to use the software renderer.
Seth: No ETA. I’ve tried to give them in the past and always failed to meet them. Riven X is a hobby project, no schedule.
iVan: Riven X requires Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Xcode 3.2 to compile. It runs as far back as Tiger, but does not build on Tiger.
Great release! sadly fullscreen is crashing on the old white macbook(MacBook4,1/GMA X3100). Thanks a lot
Amazing – truly a tour de force! I have never played through the entire game before (mea culpa) as I gave up in frustration years ago when the game first came out. Also I was pretty busy with grad school . Yes, I am a geezer. I just went through Myst again with some serious nostalgia using SheepShaver in 2009, and wanted to try Riven again but didn’t think it was going to happen. At least not without having to purchase either a classic Mac enabled machine or a reportedly inferior “new version”. What a joyful experience!
Now if only I could get the game to quit…
Played through game, even watched all credits in a dissociated state, now stuck in fullscreen without mouse or portions of keyboard response. Black screen of death? Many thanks for any input.
I’m aware of issues with GMA graphics hardware. I will try to address them in a future update.
The issues after the end credits is a known issue that will be fixed in the next version.
Thanks, really great work.
Merci infiniment. C’est un grand plaisir de pouvoir rejouer à Riven dans son intégralité.
Just a note… The link to download on the project page is broken and linking to 0.9.5.
Hi,
first, thanks for all your efforts making this game available for OSX.
Unfortunately, after copying a bunch of files using the Masterpiece Edition DVD, I had to cancel my installation of Riven, as the installer told me to insert the disc labeled “Riven I”, which I don’t have. The Masterpiece Edition DVD is called “Exile DVD” (containing Myst, Riven and Exile).
Version: Riven X 0.9.6
Previous versions of Riven X with the installation medium option didn’t show any errors.
HTH
Tobias
Tobias: can you file a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rivenx concerning this issue?
Done.
URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rivenx/+bug/584745
Thanks!
Wow, great update ! Many thanks again for your work. *claps hands*
Already translated the news for French speaking peoples, and will install it very soon.
Hey, nice job on Riven X. I was wondering, however, if there is or may be in the future any way to use regular riven save files (*.rvn) with Riven X, as this would be very nice to have. Keep up the good work!
No, I do not plan on supporting legacy saved games.
Absolutely solid release, thank you. I can now play my GOG.com Riven easily; thank you so much for supporting this!
i just think that the 360 conquers all and ps3 blows mexican asshole
please deleete that last coment along with this one. My friend posted it as a joke but didn’t know he couldn’t delete it. I am very sorry.
Have the DVD of Riven, got this error when i try to launch a new game
” No RMAP data for stack tspit. ”
The menu is working but got this error message when i try to click on “start a new game”.
Have a macbook pro old generation running Mac OS X.6.3
Nice work anyway… was waiting for this release for a long time
Alexandre: can you file a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rivenx, and we’ll take it from there.
Hey there,
Trying to Run Riven X on the newest Intel mac mini with 10.6.3….It installs fine, but when I click ‘new game’, it just goes to black, and then nothing and it seems to hang. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks, and hopefully I can get this to work!
S
Stromy: Please file a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rivenx.
i succeed to start a new game. i deleted all riven related files and launched the app Rivenx from my application folder. After re-installing the whole thing, i had no black screen anymore but the movie intro instead. I ‘ve been playing for while but i am struggling now with the submarine as I can’t go down with the trapeze anymore. I am talking about the platform near the village which gives an access to the prison… Seems that there is a card missing here …
Thanks, just sent it!
Alexandre: I don’t think you can go down it. There should be a latter around that area so you can get down.
maxman43 : It would mean that you wouldn’t be able to use the submarine anymore. So you won’t be able to go to the school for instance, an important place if you want to know how to count … I think there is a hot spot missing on this card where you should be able to go down in order to take the submarine again… Apart from this, everything seems to be working just fine… I am almost at the end of the game, I just still have to understand where to find the Dn’i colors symbols. By the way i am really struggling about this, went through all the islands to find a link between those symbols and the colors but did not find it yet, it’s where the game starts to be interesting …
Alexandre: the submarine resets after you leave the island then come back. And you can find the answer to the colors in Ghen’s journal in his workshop.
Many thanks to let me play the game which is my all-time favorite…again!
So, it is impossible to go on by the scene where i have to link with the jail-book at Gehns 233.
After he expressly asked me to link at first the pointer doesn’t come back to interact.
The scene goes by and Gehn is leaving the house…but the pointer isn’t coming back
I use a MBP late 07 with SL last Update
See Yeah
This is a known bug that I will be addressing in an upcoming update.
I ‘ve noticed you could use the order of the color symbols in Ghen’s journal indeed. But what seems to me the most logical way to find the good color/symbol is when you sit on the big chair underwater, you have the symbol and a camera hidden somewhere on the main island. When you click on the symbol, there is a light color switching on. It took me so much time to discover this dummy thing whereas there are so many more difficult puzzles in Riven…
Between, is it possible to translate what you can read on the school wall ? Did someone crazy did a translation of the Moiety language ?
I finished the game!
I thank you for all your hard work.
Just to keep you updated, there are still two things that could still be tinkered with.
1) My screen blinks repeatedly when I run fullscreen and there are water effects onscreen.
2) Easter eggs – I’m not sure if the easter eggs do work or not, but according to walkthroughs and videos, your cursor blinks when you click on a hotspot.