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Sefir - 19 January 2014 05:38 AM

Unfortunately, while I downloaded and installed the game, I realized that the problem that I meet with many older game releases from GOG, is here too. I can hear everything, but the only thing I see is a black screen. I’m running the game in my Laptop with Win 7 64-bit. Any advice?

but wait I am not finished yet ,but you could be right I read some post about that black screen something about installing an older quicktime ... but I hope that would be solvable !!
man I am turned off all what I read says it Wont on win7

Sefir - 19 January 2014 05:38 AM

Unfortunately, while I downloaded and installed the game, I realized that the problem that I meet with many older game releases from GOG, is here too. I can hear everything, but the only thing I see is a black screen. I’m running the game in my Laptop with Win 7 64-bit. Any advice?

Like Advie says, it might be QuickTime related. The game originally shipped with QuickTime3 which was automatically installed. If you had newer versions of QuickTime already, perhaps you should uninstall it and install QuickTime3.

zobraks - 19 January 2014 01:55 AM

Er…

First on this forum - where everytime I got my butt kicked in the voting. (until Advie finally decides it’s time to try the playthroughs)

zobraks - 19 January 2014 01:55 AM

May day! May day!

I would have told you earlier, but you wouldn’t vote it.

try properties ; Windows98 with audio acceleration turned off.. thats what written at presto tech Support , hope it helps .

OK, at least it works without tweaking (I only checked the Win 98 in Compatibility tab of Setup.exe Properties, just in case).
Installed it, watched the intro, liked what I saw.
It would be a pain in the lower back to catch screenshots though , and I love taking screenshots.

The folks (astronauts, aliens) spoke clearly, so I can try to play the god damn thing. Diego, you owe me one.

Sefir - 19 January 2014 07:20 AM

Needed 1) re-installation of the newest QuickTime

Just for the record: this game requires Quicktime 3 or newer. I have version 6.5.1., which is fairly old (2004?), but it’s (more than) sufficient to play TJP 3.

So, you all may want to go to Control Panel, start the QuickTime applet (if you have it) and check your QT version. I doubt very much it’s older than version 3.

there is QuickTime Player 2.0 but only from 7.6.4 is up to work on Win7 , but anyways, as Sefir got it fixed I think we have no problems ,just mins and I will try it myself

I forgot you guys use the state of the art operating systems. Mine is Win XP SP2, it’s ancient but still cuts the mustard (for me).

zobraks - 19 January 2014 08:25 AM

I forgot you guys use the state of the art operating systems. Mine is Win XP SP2, it’s ancient but still cuts the mustard (for me).

Lucky you! you can still run the classics with no trouble

Played the intro and found the first time code, easy peasy. (All the more so because I remembered where it was. ) With chatterbox Arthur giving it all he’s got I won’t feel lonely. Not being able to reply is weird though in 2014, especially because Agent 3 does talk to him. It’s like I’m AFGNCAAP with my talking lamp Delboz, but I have a face and a voice in the intro and all of a sudden I’ve lost my tongue when good old Arthur turns up.

Since we’ll be doing a lot of hologramming, I’ve changed my avatar and sig back to Tesla’s Holograms are people too. 

Just like I feared: I like this game.

Now I’m stuck with this playthrough in the middle of Australian Open. How do I do it to myself?

Great! As I see many of you have settled and watched the intro, and some even found the first time code (Karlok), you can officially start the playthrough on 00:00 CET January 20 which is still as planned.

Until then, let me say a few words on the interface, even though the manual covers most of it - the inventory is in some way similar to Kheops games (there’re more than one similarity to Kheops, and I’m anxious to hear what some of you who played Kheops titles but not JP have to say on it, though JP2 might be even closer to Kheops feel with Da Vinci’s place) as you’re selecting object from the inventory, which then becomes the “active object”. Though, using it is a little different.

As for Arthur, the Normal mode is probably a safe bet for most of the people, as he won’t distract you much, and you can still hear what he has to say by clicking on him. You can change Arthur modes anytime in the game.

You can watch all of the already seen cinematics/messages in the Cinematics options by going all the way up with your mouse. You can access controls on F1:

(yes, I’m taking a pleasant ride in the balloon under the sunset, but you should NOT follow my example, until tomorrow that is)

diego - 19 January 2014 09:31 AM

Great! As I see many of you have settled and watched the intro, and some even found the first time code (Karlok), you can officially start the playthrough on 00:00 CET January 20 which is still as planned.

Sorry! I thought tomorrow was already today, if you get my drift. I’ll deleete my post and repost it Monday.