Myst V: End of Ages crashes on 128MB VRAM!

Hi all!
I got Myst V as a present and installed it this weekend. The game keeps crashing, I still hear the sound as if the game was proceding normally but my cursor is frozen, I have no access to the desktop, keyboard shortcuts to Force Quit do not work and I have to shut down the iMac G5 the hard way, i.e. holding down the Startup button till it shuts down.
I have posted in the Ubisoft forums and it seems it affects only ATI graphics cards, Macs with nVidia cards do not seem to be concerned too much by this problem. The solution offered so far is to take off antialiasing and a setting called anistropic filtering for gameplay which takes away a lot of the magic because the game looks crappy. And seriously? I see people in that thread trying to play the game on dual G5 Power Macs and have the same problem I encounter! And I can't believe that my graphics card, the ATI X600 XT with 128MG VRAM can't play this non-action game at better settings!
Ubisoft resends the elevator to Apple, saying that Apple writes its own drivers for the graphics cards that are installed in Macs so it doesn't look like a patch from Ubi is in the works.
I have heard about ATIccelerator II, a hack for overclocking ATI graphics cards but I don't want to install it as I am afraid it would void my warranty if something were to go wrong.
Would anyone have another solution? Is this true that Apple is the one that should update the ATI drivers? Or should Ubisoft do something about this situation? I really don't know where to go on this one...
Thank you for your input.
20" iSight iMac G5 - 1.5GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I'm confident it isn't a RAM problem either, but the reason I mention this is that I added RAM to my iBook except that I never could complete the OS X install to a Firewire hard drive. I ran the extended hardware test (the RAM passed the TechTools test) and it found a problem. My dealer replaced the RAM with another and all is well. So just because the RAM is recognized and works doesn't mean there is some part of it that is faulty and causing an otherwise untraceable problem.
I'm using the default settings for Myst 5. I understand that lots of Mac users are having problems with Myst but why aren't other Mac users having the same problems?
Have you tried creating a new User account and running the game from that user?
Here's what in the Myst 5 install Read Me:
3.6. Mac Known Problems
- It is very important to upgrade your Mac OSX version to OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.5. Some important fixes have been made in Mac OSX that will upgrade the overall quality of the game and prevent some random crashes.
- OSX users with Java 1.3.1 or older will need to upgrade to Java 1.4 in order to install the game. Use the Software Update feature found on the Mac to get the latest updates.
- This application will not work properly on Mac's with the Intel Processor (or maybe very slowly via Rosetta).
- There are minor graphic problems with the nVidia GeForce MX and ATI Radeon under Mac OS 10.2.8.

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The post is the answer.

Some time after I wrote the above "tip," thinking it was the solution, my computer froze once again. As a result, I downgraded to 10.4 with its bundled ATI software version 1.4, and tested again. Same problem... cursor freeze at random spots in the game. So, one iteration at a time, I upgraded the Mac OS X (along with its supplied ATI bundles), testing Myst V with each one. And every one, all the way to 10.4.9 with its ATI bundle v1.4.18, had the same problem. The ATI ROM Extender really did not help, although the game did pick that configuration to work for the longest time, not freezing until well into the Age of Taghira.
I have since added 1 GB of RAM (no help either), and have also played with the Activity Monitor, killing all the processes that would stay dead before starting the game. No help.
Incidentally, somewhere in the updating of the Mac OS and its ATI graphics software, the ATI ROM Extender disappeared. I am thinking it may be supplied with ATI's software for retail cards, which was another thing I tried installing. But I have only the Apple-supplied ATI 9650 graphics, which apparently doesn't require the ROM Extender. At least, the game works about as well without it as with it.
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Tiger Archive and Reinstall - Loss of free HD Space

My eMac was upgraded to Tiger (from OS 10.3.9) two days ago from an install disc I bought from Apple. I used online 'Software Update' to upgrade further to 10.4.9.
My eMac HDD was down to 5.66 gb (out of about 37gb) so I decided to remove a load of "Language files' installed by Tiger to save HD space. I somehow cocked this up by removing the English language files (particularly annoying because I thought I had asked the software not to do this).
Anyway, to rectify the situation I realised that all I needed to do was an 'Archive and Install' from my Tiger disc, then use 'Software Update' again to get back to the position I was in before (after deleting any 'Previous Systems' folder of course).
This is where it all went wrong.
I opened the Tiger Installer and opted for the 'Archive and Install' option. But I got an error message saying I didn't have enough HD space left to do the job. It said I had only 1.65 gb left and I needed to make more space on my HD.
I thought this was weird because I knew I had 5.66gb left on my drive. However when I backed out of the Installer I found that my HD icon on the desktop had changed. It now says I have only 1.66gb space left on my HD.
I am at a loss to know why and where all my HD space has gone. I really need to find out how to locate it all and how to recover it all? Following this I need to know how to run 'Archive and Install' without losing all my HD free pace.
The installer was only working for a few seconds, maybe a minute at the most.
My first thought was look for a 'Previous Systems' folder. I found this but it was only 32kb in size. So I'm missing 4 or 5 gbs.
Please Help!!!

That did the trick. I followed the advice in your link and downloaded Disk Inventory X. It immediatley showed a big purple block of 4 gigs belonging to Myst V End of Ages that I had just been playing for the first time.
Uninstalling this did the trick. I have the Folder size set to show in the folder name on my desktop. My HD icon could not have been updated for some reason so I thought I had about 6 gigs available when I hadn't. Oh well, never mind. All sorted now.
By the way, my Mac is still working fine, so I must have stopped deleting the English language files in time. So I don't necessarily need to reinstall Tiger just yet it would seem. I will continue to seek out superflous language files and printer drivers though. I need the space.

My old TIFFs and JPEGs have end of file errors when Photoshop crashes

I'm using CS3 on a mac duo intel, 10.5.8 OS
My photoshop is frequently crashing, and I am unable to force quit in the finder. Even worse, TIFs and JPGs that aren't even open at the time of the crash are getting corrupted. As for as I can tell, any TIF or JPG that was saved at any time during the session that ended with the crash gets corrupted. Even the versions in Time Machine get corrupted. For instance, Let's say I launched photoshop at 9 am on Monday morning. at 12 pm on Monday, I save and close files X, Y, and Z. At 6 pm on Monday, photoshop crashes. X, Y, and Z are now corrupted. If I check time machine, say for the versions on my drive at 12:30 pm, Monday, they will be corrupted, even though the files were closed half an hour earlier, and the crash didn't happen until 6 pm.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. As you might imagine, I'm ready to pull my hair out.
thanks,
Nick

Hi Chris,
Thanks for responding. That's a little frightening. The only back-up
utility I use is SuperDuper. Could this be causing it?
Thanks,
Nick
>The only time Photoshop could corrupt a file is when saving the file.
>
>It sounds like you may have a bad hard disk, or some other utility
>on your system is causing the corruption (sometimes happens with
>backup utilities and antivirus software).
>

Myst, Riven, and Exile

I loved Myst when it first came out but never found time to play any of the sequels.
QUESTION: Are any of the Myst games compatible with my cool new iMac? I've read a lot about problems with Myst IV and V (Revelation, and End of Ages)...but what about I, II, and III (Myst, Riven, and Exile)? Can I get the Myst 10th Anniversary DVD Edition to work on this 'mazin' machine I've just fallen in love with or do I have to buy a Windows copy and play it on the old dinosaur?
iMac G5 intel 20" Mac OS X (10.4.6) "Mac newbie at the controls :O" Intuos 6"x8"

Hmmm....I just checked out the "Downloads" section of the Apple site and there's a section that talks about how to use "Classic" programs in OS X "Tiger".
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/classic/
Has anyone tried this? Would this make the 10th Anniversary DVD Edition work on my cool new iMac? Would it run smoothly?
I'm really hoping this would work and not cause other problems in my system. I don't want to crash the computer just for a couple games...even if they are amazingly great games like Myst!
[holding my breath and fidgeting like an over-excited kid waiting to open Christmas presents!]

Myst V: End of Ages crashes on 128MB VRAM!

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