Return To The Mysterious Island 2 Patch
I played the original Mysterious Island on my Windows XP. Downloaded 2 just fine on Windows Vista Premium but from the start, the graphics flicker all over the place; some parts of the menu screen don't even show up. Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do? I've seen where some people had to update their drivers, but I'm even having a problem with that on Driver Detective.
The ultimate source of patches & addons for Return to Mysterious Island 2. I played the original Mysterious Island on my Windows XP. Downloaded 2 just fine on Windows Vista Premium but from the start, the graphics flicker all over the place. 'Return to Mysterious Island 2' Patch #1 Available NOW by Rainier on Sept. 21, 2009 @ 3:41 a.m. PDT Return to Mysterious Island 2 offers the player an experience comparable to that of Robinson Crusoe or one of Verne's characters, but in this new installment, survival is not all, you will also have to save the island from an environmental disaster.
Shows I need to update drivers, but then it doesn't??? Just had an addtional card placed in this computer for the use of security cameras, but they aren't even hooked up yet. Edited by 5dogmom ( 07/26/09 04:19 PM) #528474 - 07/26/09 04:44 PM Re: Return to Mysterious Island 2: graphics flickering all over the place GB Reviewer Glitches Moderator Sonic Boomer Registered: 10/24/00 Posts: 38592 Loc: southeast USA. According to this you have either an 'Enable/Disable PhysX' option or a 'Select PhysX Processor' option in your nVidia Control Panel.
If you have the 'Select PhysX Processor' option, you choose 'CPU.' The quickest way to access your nVidia control panel is probably to right-click your desktop where there is no icon and look for it in the Context Menu that pops up. #789984 - 02/22/12 06:24 AM Re: Return to Mysterious Island 2: graphics flickering all over the place Settled Boomer Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 531 Loc: Virginia Beach, VA.
Here's a link to another old thread that pertains to this problem: At the time when these threads were active I remember finding considerable documentation on the web that this was a recurring problem with newer Nvidia drivers and a lot of Kheops games. I had this same problem with Nostradamus, Cleopatra, Safecraker (the newer one) and Secrets of DaVinci as well as RTMI2. There's even patches for several older games, Crystal Key 2 and Egyptian Prophecy that were specifically to fix problems with Nvidia drivers. It has been an issue for a long time. Back when those threads were active there were reports that some people had success with reverting to older drivers, but my card was too new to work with those older drivers (refer to those older threads for more details). I still have RTMI2 installed, and changing the PhysX drivers to 'CPU' does NOT fix the problem for me. The windowed mode described in the 'Screen flicker problem' thread works for me for RTMI2 and for all the others that I have tried.
Few things you have to do here depending on your OS; but all are collectively here. Right click the game in your Steam Library and select 'Properties'.
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Select the 'Local Files' tab and click 'Verify Integrity of Game Cache'. You will notice that 1 of the files is corrupt and will be re-downloaded. This doesn't always happen instantly and you may or may not see it in the download section.
If you don't see it, don't worry - It'll happen. Move on, regardless.
Navigate to the Steamapps Common Return to Mysterious Island Folder. Once there, Right click Game.exe and select properties. Click the compatibility tab and select 'Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Select 'Run this program as an administrator'. Then click 'Apply' and then 'OK' 3. Repeat this process for the file: RtMI.exe.
Selecting BOTH the Compatibility mode as well as the Administrator rights. Setting Windowed Mode - (Optional, in some cases.): Open the file: config.ini with Notepad. Inside, you will find a line that says: 'bFullScreen=1' Change this to say 0 (zero) instead of 1. Save the file.
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At this point, you're finished, but you CAN NOT run the game through the Steam Library. Instead, launch the file: Game.exe and the game should start. Most won't require Windowed Mode - so try skipping Step 4 first. If it doesn't work, you can change to windowed mode in the.ini and adjust resolution as needed by adjusting the 'bScreenResolution' string. Hope this helps anyone enjoy a wonderful Point and Click adventure! I am on Windows 8 and I too have been having issues playing Return to Mysterious Island as the game crashed whenever I right clicked within the game (after the initial prompted right click which didn't cause a crash) and sometimes the game just suddenly crashed. I have tried all of the above suggestions but to no avail, but I have found a fix that has enabled me to play the game in full screen (not windowed mode) without any game crashes.
It's a bit longwinded but at least it means that I can play the game, although as I am not playing on Windowed mode the screen still flashes a few times when I am initially loading the game, but this hasn’t occurred when I have been playing the game, the game has played great. First I went to Program files (for me program files x86), Steam, SteamApps, Common, Return to Mysterious Island (open folder) I then set the game and Config Appender (click on properties) to play on Windows XP Service Pack 2, then in both of the these I clicked run as administrator.
Then I logged into Steam, went to my Library right clicked on Return to Mysterious Island, then clicked on properties, then clicked on Local Files and then I clicked on Verify Integrity of Game Cache, let this go through (it found one issue). The when you load the game but prior to playing you will see a menu which includes Options if you click on this you will be see a Rendering option which states Hardware I clicked on this to change it to Software, then launched the game as normal and was able to play as normal. The next issue occurred for me when I had finished playing the game for the day, saved the game and then I came back to the game another day, when I tried to launch the game it always crashed again prior to launching, but I found that just by following the steps above to Verify Integrity of Game Cache on Steam each time before I wished to play the game that it meant that I was able to play the game fine and the Verify Integrity of Game Cache on Steam takes less than a minute to go through for me & all my saved games were stored fine. I hope this may possibly help others having issues in playing this excellent game.