First Steps You are not doing anything wrong.
News articles say they had a deadline to meet.
The first patch was out before the game, but still doesn't solve all the problems. But, it has good logic puzzles, so you struggle through the technical difficulties. So, there may be problems with black screens, jumpy videos, or problems getting the computer to recognize and obey the mouse clicks. Certain activities on Riven take a lot of computer resources. When you start a new game, the automatic Options settings are for background sound and water movement to be on.