Majors
Fixed a journal texture appearing in English when it should have appeared in French when the French language is selected as the in-game language.
Fixed a journal texture appearing in Spanish in the Channelwood journal on Myst Island when it should have appeared in Portuguese when the Portuguese language is selected as the in-game language.
Fixed a timing issue that could occur where the Rime book pedestal could be raised, but unable to be clicked on.
(Mac only) Re-enabled SM5 RHI to help with performance on lower-memory Macs.
(Windows only) Updated DLSS to 4.0.2.
Minors
Improved the visibility timing of some areas in Rime.
Fixed some shoulder button issues with gamepad interactions with certain puzzles.
Fixed lighting for a specific chamber on Myst Island.
Improved the appearance of frost on the hut in Rime.
Fixed splash effects not appearing in Channelwood when the frog jumps into the water based on certain circumstances.
Fixed a case where some levers in the Myst Island library could cause progress to be blocked.
Updated cached shaders to help with minor hitching across the game.
Microsoft Store/Xbox Only
Updated the GDK version the game uses.
Switched the default movie player over to using Electra.
Removed a menu setting for legacy navigation mode that was not intended for Xbox play.
Due to Apple’s recent announcement of newer macOS software updates preventing the future support of many non-Apple Silicon Macs, and increased frequency of reports to our support address of instability on Intel and AMD Macs in the latest macOS versions despite our lack of impactful changes to our games during those times, we are updating our minimum and recommended requirements of Myst to remove official support for non-Apple Silicon Macs.
You may still be able to play Myst on certain Intel and AMD-based Macs at this time, but you may run into unexpected issues with game stability, performance, visual defects, and more, especially if you are playing on macOS Sequoia or above. Unfortunately, Cyan is unable to make meaningful changes to remedy these issues, as they appear rooted in changes in the operating system updates themselves and how they interact with our games over time.
As a studio that has been around for over 35 years, we've seen many operating systems and different hardware platforms go through similar growing pains. With some of our games being on digital stores for 15+ years, we pride ourselves in being able to maintain and continue offering our decades-old award-winning games to folks. However, there almost always comes a time in which software or hardware deprecation forces us to make tough decisions like this, and we can no longer provide the experience folks expect us to in those cases.