Re: Myst V: End Of Ages Freezing Problem Solved

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.
Sorry if I have misled anyone. I'm still working the problem. I have found that the "Default" Video Options chosen by the Myst V program for my computer may be too optimistic. I have found that by moving the "Anti-aliasing" and/or the "Anisotropic filtering" sliders to the left, that the frequency of freezes is reduced, but not eliminated.
The puzzle remains: Why did it work a year ago on this computer but not now? Perhaps dust on the graphics circuitry is causing it to run hotter? Any ideas out there?

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Myst V: End Of Ages Freezing Problem Solved

I could not play Myst V after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4.8 or 9. Video would stop on a still frame, while audio continued on. Apparently the latest versions of the Mac OS have reverted to an earlier version of the ATI ROM Extender file, which is located in System/Library/Extensions/AppleNDRV. The version of that file supplied with 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 is 1.2.2f2. I found a later version, 1.2.7f2 on my TechTool e-Drive partition, which is running Mac OS X 10.4.6 (IIRC). Replacing that file has allowed me to play Myst V again. There is still a little stumbling in the video during Yeesha's monologue at the beginning of the game, but it recovers itself without freezing the computer.
Hope this helps anyone with Myst V problems.
PowerMac Dual 2.7 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) May 2005 Build

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.
Sorry if I have misled anyone. I'm still working the problem. I have found that the "Default" Video Options chosen by the Myst V program for my computer may be too optimistic. I have found that by moving the "Anti-aliasing" and/or the "Anisotropic filtering" sliders to the left, that the frequency of freezes is reduced, but not eliminated.
The puzzle remains: Why did it work a year ago on this computer but not now? Perhaps dust on the graphics circuitry is causing it to run hotter? Any ideas out there?

Myst V End of Ages

How do I make a disc image from Myst V End of Ages so I can prevent wearing out my CD/DVD optical drive and preserve the original game disc?
Myst V End of Ages has a copy protection installed. This protection is "very" robust and simply will not allow the legal owner of the disc run the software program from a disc image through the use of standard normal means of disc imaging.
This places the original disc at risk of being worn out and places unnecessary wear on the optical drive.
All previous versions of Myst allowed disc imaging.
By copyright law the legal owner of copyrighted material has the right to produce one working archive copy of intellectual property for personal private use and or library. Problem is, so many have abused this right that theft became a major problem for UbiSoft so copy protection was employed.
Without purchasing or utilizing some form of illegal piracy software or method, Myst V simply will not allow itself to be copied and always demands that the program be booted with the original disc in the optical drive.
Since the software is out of production, the legal owner needs a means to preserve the original disc.
After numerous attempts and numerous failures I figured out how to make the program run from a disc image without the need for anything but Apple system software. All perfectly legal.
It is so simple it almost hurts to define it.
1. Make a disc image from the original disc.
2. Mount the disc image.
3. Put the original disc in the optical drive while the disc image is still mounted. (two Myst V images will be on the desktop)
4. Launch Myst V.
5. Eject the original disc from the optical drive.
That's It!
Myst V will NOT launch with the disc image. It will only launch with the original disc in the optical drive.
Myst will continue to run with only the disc image mounted even if the optical disc is ejected.
You CANNOT use the disc image to make a working copy by any legal means that I am aware of but you can now preserve your original disc with minimal use and avoid wear and tear on your optical drive.
The game only requires that the program be launched with the original disc in the optical drive. It does not require that the original disc remain in the optical drive during use.

Good info.
I have a complex flight sim, X-Plane, that does it a little easier. Launch, wait until everything loads, then eject the DVD. Like the Myst series, it helps to have a big hard drive. The folder contain X-Plane, its aircraft, airport and navaid databases, plus the geography of the entire world, needs nearly 7GB of hard drive real estate.

Myst V End of Ages Intel Patch Problem

The intel patch for the game doesn't seem to work properly. Once the installer is created and the DVD ejected it shows:
AppleScript Error
The Command exited with a non-zero status. (1)
Even when you click ok it continues "Patching Installer" without actually doing anything (I had it for about 1 and a half hour running). Can anyone help?

The Patch has been removed from both the Ubisoft Support site and Apple Games Demos & Updates site! Let's hope for a real Universal Binary patch!

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.

IPhone freezes - problem solved

re: my iPhone which used to freeze intermittently with 1.0.2 froze constantly with 1.1.1
I went to the Genius Bar today at the local apple store and they gave me a new phone. So wonderful to have a phone that I don't have to reboot every 5 minutes.
So, moral is, if your phone is freezing often then it's probably defective and it should be replaced.
just FYI:

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MDD freezing problem can anyone help?

Hey
Ive been having quite majer problems with my mac. It crashes regularly and im not sure why. It will freeze any time even when running safari and has been known to do it 5 times in one day!!! These are the possable problems i can think of.
1. Hardware problem though i have tested all my ram with memtest and the apple hardware test Cd and it says its fine.
2. i was thinking my mac could be overheating, can this cause it to crash? At the moment its is running at 58.3 *C and all im running is safari, im not even running any widgets. The CPU fan is almost always on (though not at full speed) even when running just safari and i think the barings in the fan could be on their way out because it doesnt sound like the fan is running smoothly at all.
Would it be worth buying a new fan and getting a copper heatsink to bring the temperature down? Im not sure if i should do this in case it doesnt work as it well set me back over £100, if there is no way of finding and fixing the problem i was thinking of getting a macpro though as im a student it will take me about a year to get my hands on that kind of cash
If it helps these are the specs of my mac:
Powermac G4 MDD 1.25DP
1.5GB RAM
OSX 10.4.8 (im running this beacuse 10.4.9 is incompatable with final cut HD 3.0)
GForce 4MX
1X 80GB PATA
1X 200GB PATA
ASUS DVD R (put in a week ago though there were problems with crashing before this)
Can anyone give me some advice on what to do?
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Tom

Assuming you are reading that CPU temperature with Temperature Monitor software, the specified upper limit for your CPU is 62 degrees C. Therefore, 58.3 degrees shouldn't be causing your freeze problems. Look for other possibilities.
Not that this is your problem, but a friend's upgraded Sawtooth G4 started having freeze problems in Tiger after running several months without any problems. Turns out he had his old DVD-ROM in a Firewire box connected via Firewire to his G4 and the unit started crapping out. Still not sure if the core problem is the DVD-ROM drive or the Firewire case or the Firewire connection, but disconnecting the unit ended his suddenly arising freeze problems.
Try using your MDD G4 with all Firewire and USB (except the keyboard and mouse of course) stuff disconnected from the tower case. If that ends your freezes, it will be a simple process of elimination to find the offending USB or Firewire item.
Good luck,
Carl B.

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I'm just using Compressor 3.5.0 to convert animation file sequence (24fps) into quicktime Proress422HQ (23.976fps). Any settings end up with freeze frame at the end of clip. I've tried 24fps to 24fps and still got same problem. Being curious, I've tried to convert to MPEG4, and still got the same problem. Originally the source format is PNG sequence, and I've convert the PNG into TIFF for test purpose. Still no luck. Does anyone ever experienced the same problem? Thanks for sharing.

Solved by changing the frame rate of the footage (image sequence) into any other frame rate, then change back to desired frame rate. In my case, after load the image sequence >check inspector of footage >change current frame rate (from 24fps to other fps) >change back frame rate to 24fps. Same bug in version 3.5.2. Hope it helps.

Did the new MBA fix the overheating/freezing problem??

hi everyone!
i'd like to ask anyone who has tried out the new MacBook Air: have they fixed the overheating/freezing problem??
i've had 3 MBAs over the 3 years (all different versions) and they were all overheating - i.e. when i was using them for a while and had more internet pages/applications opened they started to get really hot and at some point the computer slowed down to a point where i could not work anymore and had to just close it and let it cool down for a while. playing a youtube video without problems is almost impossible.
i love all the other features of the MacBook Air, but this slowing down is super annoying, especially for someone who spends hours at a computer daily.
plus the other day my friend who has a MacBook Pro asked why my computer was so loud - i never noticed but the fans are just so noisy compared to hers.
so please let me know what are your experiences with the new one compared to the older ones.
thanks a lot!

I have the high end 13" macbook air that came down to about 2000 cnd. It overheats quite frequently though. I find it the strangest when I am only watching netflix on safari. maybe 2 tabs opened with mail and preview app opened... Dont even have to mention other things.. it heats up when I am coding on Coda.. using photoshop (2 files opened)..
Another thing is that sometimes it doesnt register to the current time immediately. After I wake it up from sleep, I have to wait abotu 3-5 secs until the cursor can respond and the time is corrected (usually the time is at when I closed the macbook air.)
Have you guys heard of these problems?
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I know how to fix the iTunes 7 / firmware ver. 1.2 freeze problem

Many of you (like me) are having major headaches because of the new updates that Apple has been releasing (i.e. iTunes 7). So far I only know that this affects the Video iPod, but this could very well fix other models too.
Here are some symptoms of what the following will fix, and what you most likely have already done to try and fix it.
- iPod keeps freezing after a few seconds ever since you updated to iTunes 7 and/or iPod software ver. 1.2.
- iPod will remain in Do Not Disconnect mode even after ejecting or disconnecting
- A forced reset does not fix it, as it repeats the above.
- Restoring the iPod through iTunes does not help
So, here's what to do.
The old iPod updater software is how you will fix all of this. Unfortunately, because iTunes 7 thinks that it's better and more up to date, it will prevent you from opening the old version of the software if you still have it on your machine.
So first of all, uninstall iTunes 7.0. (You do not have to remove your library information, just the software.) Restart the computer.
If you still have the old iPod updater, try it and see if it runs. If it does, read on. If not, skip to the next paragraph. So, if it does run, simply hit Restore and you can go back to a previous version of the firmware. I believe that Apple discontinued the firmware page since releasing iTunes 7. Look around some search engines like Google if you really want the latest firmware.
Take out the installation CD that came with your iPod. Run it and it should install the old iPod updater along with iTunes 6.x. iTunes 6.x cannot run since iTunes 7 changed your libary's formatting, but that will not be a problem. Run the Restore process in the old updater and it should be alright for you to start loading your stuff on again without problems.
Since iTunes 7 reformatted your libary listing, iTunes 6 will no longer work. However, you can still use it by reinstalling iTunes 7. Just make sure you do the following.
TO KEEP THE SAME THING FROM HAPPENING AGAIN
iTunes 7 is actually alright. It's the updater part of it that will screw up your iPod.
- iTunes 7 will tell you that a new iPod software version is available when you open it.
- Check the "Never Ask Again" box and click Don't Install.
- When you sync your iPod to your computer, NEVER touch the Version section when you're changing your iPod's settings. Everything else is alright to work with.
- Everything will work fine as long as you never update the iPod's software via iTunes, at least until the programmers can fix this issue in a later release or patch.
I hope this helps out a lot of you. Pretty lame of Apple to miss something this big during debugging.
Custom Windows XP

Listen to this person, he knows exactly what he's talking about. My unit had the freezing problem, the visual artifact problem, and eventually would only show a blank white screen after I had tinkered too long. Luckily I have another computer that I hadn't yet upgraded to itunes 7 and it had the last firmware upgrade before the itunes 7 one. From disk mode I was able to restore it to the previous firmware version, and now the ipod works perfectly.
I too am almost disqusted with Apple for 1) missing this problem and 2) not letting people know!
I wonder how many more people are going to have lots of problems so apple can protect their PR.
Anyways, what would be really helpful would be if someone could upgrade the latest firmware installer before itunes 7 (it's an individual ipod updating program, not itunes 6.xx)somewhere on the internet so users could download it and do away with this evil 1.2 firmware.

Nokia C7 freeze problem

Hello. I use Nokia C7. All works fine but often when I surf the web browser, use skype, search updates and doing many other things my Nokia C7 freeze and dont (cant) resart. Only option to restart the phone is remove and insert battery. How to FIX this problem?

This problem has nothing to do with applications added or needing software updates. It is purely a hardware problem, there seems to be a fundamental flaw with the design of Nokia phones, and it is very disappointing that they are not more honest about the problem.
My Nokia C7 seems to freeze frequently when processing CPU intensive processes especially, such as trying to watch videos on the BBC iplayer or Youtube, but can happen anytime. The pattern seems to be with these phones (and the N8) that these freezes happen quicker and quicker as time goes on. It is just not good enough to say take the battery out, which is the ONLY way to reboot the phone, do other phone users of different manufacturers have to do this? Not in my experience.
I find it incredible that Nokia, with its dwindling share market, can release these phones without having fully tested them properly. You may have gathered that I feel rather disgruntled with Nokia, I have always had Nokia phones but I am now regretting my decision to start a new contract with this phone. I like it and the features, but what point is there in giving you applications such as the Navigation and the iplayer for example if you can't use them because of freezing.
I will be sending my C7 off for repair next week, in the hope that they have sorted out their hardware issue, but I say beware to anyone else with this phone. If you have had occasional freezing problems, then they will in all likelihood increase as the internal hardware degrades.

Fix for Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse Freeze problem.

After deleting the following file: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
And re-pairing my Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse all of my freezing problems have been resolved.

For what it's worth...
I have read a bunch of different threads on this. So far I have:
- downgraded my TimeCapsule (still had problems)
- Upgraded to 10.5.7 (still had problems)
- made both the bluetooth keyboard and might mouse "favorites" per http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1907901&tstart=30
- disabled bluetooth in the network panel
...and left an old PC mouse connected to a USB port.
The add as favorites / disable in network panel I have done fairly recently and - so far - no problems.
YMMV...
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i have a question my iphone4s has a problem when updated iOS8 there will be freeze problem i think iOS8 is not supported in 4s!!!!!!!!!.
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I had freezing problems on my Toshiba and decided to refresh it with full windows 8.1 DVD I purchased separately,
Toshiba initially had Vista. I bought upgraded to Win 8 pro 64 and then to 8.1 pro 64
Toshiba didn't provide any restoration discs or anything. Windows 8 refresh wouldn't work, said was missing files and wouldn't accept my Win 8 upgrade downloaded file as a refresh media source. So I went out and bought Win 8.1.
Refreshed fine without freezing , it deleted every single program on my computer , only left files.
Now I have 0 programs on my toshiba that still freezes. any help appreciated.
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/CompatCenter/Home
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http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Windows-8-8-1/Satellite-Laptop-Randomly-freezes-on-Windows-8/td-p/590812

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I have 10.5.3 on an external, and a 410 that I use as a backup device. After reading this post I thought I'd check it for myself. Installed the 1.8.3-6BETA, and fired it up. Everything worked, I had inputs and outputs, even recorded a little something just to test. Started playing some itunes, and about 10 minutes in, the 410 dropped out. I've tried restarting the computer and device several times, and even though the 410 shows up in my sys prefs and Logic prefs, I can't get any ins or outs out of it, and the 410 interface shows now activity on any of the channels.
Bee Jay -
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