Myst V Vista 64bit Problems, Game won't run under Vista 64bit Options

[GreenBandit]

My main game PC is currently running Vista 64bit, Nvidia Gf8800GTS, Dx 9.0c, Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM & with a Creative X-fi gamer sound card (is that the relevant stuff?).

After installing the game, when it reaches the "new game" screen it locks up part way through the fading up of the screen brightness, the hand-shaped mouse pointer sometimes appears, and the game becomes unresponsive. I'm not sure it is a total lock-up since one night through a series of many many (unrepeatable) key presses, the game did reach the initial Atrus dialog. It is as if the frame rate is about 1 frame per many minutes, a problem I have now seen a few times under Vista.

PlanetAMD64 does have a link to a file (EOA.zip I think) that was reported to get round the Vista incompatibility problem, but every time I try to download it, it bombs out part way through.

Can anyone help?

p.s. I'm really sad to hear of the demise of URU live, I hope that the GoG do manage to keep at least the forum open.