If the link in the above Apple site doesn't work, download the Myst V demo from here. The demo file is MystV_Demo.sitx, 457 MB.

Hello,
Do you mean that installing the demo should help use the full DVD game?
Thanks

I believe the demo is a clue whether the full game will play. If it will NOT play, odds are the full game will not. If it WILL play, there is a good chance the game will play.

I was hoping when I installed the demo that it would install something to sort out the problems I'm having with Myst V, but no such luck.
The demo runs fine on my system (Mac Pro, Snow Leopard 10.6.1) although I haven't spent a lot of time playing it yet.
The Myst V game starts up O.K. and runs fine up to the end of the K'veer age. After Yeesha gives her speech the player is supposed to be transported to the actual beginning of the game but nothing happens and the game has to be force-quit at this point.
If may have something to do with the version of Python installed as I get the following messages in the Console log:

Oct 13 15:15:23 Thor [0x0-0x37037].com.ubisoft.mystv[749]: Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Oct 13 15:15:23 Thor [0x0-0x37037].com.ubisoft.mystv[749]: Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Oct 13 15:15:23 Thor [0x0-0x37037].com.ubisoft.mystv[749]: Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]

I do have some saved game positions from later in Myst V which play all right.

GeoffR,
Interesting...after having installed the demo, are the problems you mention related to the demo itself or trying to use of the game from the DVD through some demo files?

Hi frenchfly1954

Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my post.

The Myst demo runs fine and doesn't do anything for the actual Myst V game.

The problems I mentioned in my post are to do with the actual Myst V game which seems to run O.K. on my machine except for stopping at the end of the K'Veer age. If I could sort that out I would be happy.

Have you managed to get the game working on your system yet?

Maybe this isn't relevant, but I began having trouble playing Myst V on my Mac G5 after my OEM ATI Radeon 9650 graphics card had about 4 years on it. The game would freeze just after Yeesha's speech, when she turned away. Sometimes the game would play past that point and then freeze near the beginning of Direbo. I finally found that upgrading my graphics card to an ATI Radeon X800 XT fixed the problem. Maybe the OEM card was failing, or maybe the game requirements were just a little too high for it... (but originally it worked fine).

It could also be that your graphics card driver is not the latest and needs to be updated.

Hi wstrohm and thanks for your input. I don't think it could be my graphics card as I have a brand new system. The graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120.
I assume the driver is up to date.

I did try running the game with the video options at their lowest settings but this didn't help.

I suspect something to do with Python but don't know enough about that side of things to know for sure. Have posted in Apple Discussions and will see if there is any response.

-- Geoff

Hi GeoffR,
OK I understand now you succeeded at least to install the game.....which I did not since as I said in an earlier post, my patched installer works, ejects the DVD and then nothing happens...will try again but I lost confidence..My system is also SL 10.6.1 on an I Mac. Will see. Thanks

I have finally succeeded in installing and running Myst on my intel system running Snow Leopard. I used the terminal instructions posted earlier in this thread but modified them somewhat to get things working.
If anyone is interested I could post complete instructions of what I did.

-- Geoff

Hi GeoffR,
Sure I am interested by your procedure and would indeed appreciate if you listed it.
Thanks

These are my instructions for installing Myst V on an intel-Mac. Very similar to the ones posted earlier.

The following instructions for installing Myst V on an intel-based Mac were taken from two places:
“LunaNik”’s post of 26 May 2009 in this forum
“technoblog” for 8 June 2006 by Lucas Carlson

Before starting the actual Terminal work do the following set up:

Make sure the Myst V DVD is available in your optical drive.
Open a new document in TextEdit (or your favourite editor).
In Finder open a New Finder Window, navigate to the Myst DVD and click on the “Setup” folder. Then click on the folder inside Setup which has a long name made of letters and numbers. Right-click (or ctrl-click) on this folder and select “Copy” to copy the name to the clipboard. Go the the TextEdit document and select paste from the Edit menu to paste the name into the document. You will need this later.

Create a folder called “myst5” in your Home folder. My Home folder is called “geoff” so the path would look like: <diskname>/Users/geoff/myst5

Download the “jadap158.zip” file from:
http://www.steike.com/code/jav...neering/jadap158.zip

Copy the “jadap158.zip” file into the “myst5” folder.

Run Terminal - this will be found in the Applications/Utilities/ folder.

In the following text, commands you type into Terminal are in Bold, text following the command explains what is happening.
Case is important in the commands.
To avoid mistakes in Terminal, you could copy and paste this section into a TextEdit document and then copy and paste each Terminal command into the Terminal window as required.

cd myst5
Sets the active directory to “myst5”

jar xfv /Volumes/Myst\ V\ EOA/setup.jar
This unarchives the setup.jar file. It will display many lines of code

sudo cp -r /Volumes/Myst\ V\ EOA/support .
Copies the support folder from the Myst DVD. You will be asked to enter your admin password - the password will not display on the screen so be careful to enter it correctly.

sudo cp -r /Volumes/Myst\ V\ EOA/setup/bd34fbe22aed2ba904da67fe5021cc05/md5 bd34fbe22aed2ba904da67fe5021cc05
Check that the long name following “setup/” matches the name you copied to the TextEdit document at the start of this process. It it does then you’re fine, otherwise use the name from the TextEdit document in this command - you need to paste it twice.

open jadap158.zip
This unzips the jadap158.zip file.

mv jadap158/* .
This moves the contents of the jadap158 folder to where you need them.

./jad com/installshield/wizard/service/file/PureJavaFileServiceImpl.class
This generates a new file called “PureJavaFileServiceImpl.jad”.

open -t PureJavaFileServiceImpl.jad
This will open the generated file in TextEdit. Go to the TextEdit window and look for “public String[] getPartitionNames()”
Make sure you find the correct routine, there are similar routine names. This one is towards the end of the file.

Change it to look as follows.

public String[] getPartitionNames()
throws ServiceException
{
String as[] = new String[2];
as[0] = "/";
as[1] = "/Volumes/Myst V EOA";
return as;
}

Save and close the file and go back to the Terminal window.

mv PureJavaFileServiceImpl.ja{d,va}
This moves both PureJavaFileServiceImpl.jad and PureJavaFileServiceImpl.java.

javac PureJavaFileServiceImpl.java
This is the java compiler.

cp PureJavaFileServiceImpl.class com/installshield/wizard/service/file/
This copies PureJavaFileServiceImpl.class to the directory entitled com/installshield/wizard/service/file.

java run
This runs the installer. Use the default directory for installation - you can move it once everything is done. If the installer displays a message saying that a file already exists and is newer than the file it wants to install, say Yes to replacing it. You can specify “Yes to all”.

The Myst game should be installed in the root directory as:
<Diskname>Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages

cd
This is cd followed by a space. Now navigate to the game file in Finder and drag the game file to Terminal onto the “cd “ line then press return.

chmod +x
Again, put a space after this command then drag the game file behind the command and press return. This changes the permissions on the game file to make it run correctly.

You can now exit Terminal.

You can run the game from the directory where it was installed or move the Ubisoft directory structure into the “Games” folder inside Applications, as I have done.

Hi GeoffR,
Thank you!
Unfortunatly I got after the installation the following errors :
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages.app/Contents/Resources/plSoundDecompress.app/Contents/MacOS/plSoundDecompress" (in directory "/Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages.app/Contents/Resources/plSoundDecompress.app/Contents/MacOS"): error=13, Permission denied
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
at com.installshield.util.Java2ProcessExec.processExec(Unknown Source)
at com.installshield.util.ProcessExec.executeProcess(Unknown Source)
at com.installshield.product.actions.ExecAction.executeProcess(Unknown Source)
at com.installshield.product.actions.ExecAction.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=13, Permission denied
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:53)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:91)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452)
... 6 more
Any idea of what happenned?
Thanks again

I've found one more problem while testing the Myst V game. Some of the sounds weren't working. I eventually traced this to some sounds not being decompressed during installation due to the decompression utility not having the correct permissions.
I fixed this and ran the utility and seems O.K. now.

Let me know of any problems with the installation procedure and I'll try and sort them out.

-- Geoff

quote:

Originally posted by frenchfly1954:
Hi GeoffR,
Thank you!
Unfortunatly I got after the installation the following errors :
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages.app/Contents/Resources/plSoundDecompress.app/Contents/MacOS/plSoundDecompress" (in directory "/Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages.app/Contents/Resources/plSoundDecompress.app/Contents/MacOS"): error=13, Permission denied
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
at com.installshield.util.Java2ProcessExec.processExec(Unknown Source)
at com.installshield.util.ProcessExec.executeProcess(Unknown Source)
at com.installshield.product.actions.ExecAction.executeProcess(Unknown Source)
at com.installshield.product.actions.ExecAction.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=13, Permission denied
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:53)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:91)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452)
... 6 more
Any idea of what happenned?
Thanks again

Hi frenchfly1954

I had these messages as well but was able to run the game successfully apart from some glitches with sound.

Try running the game and see what happens.

I'm busy checking how to fix the sound decompression problems for you - I was able to use a previous version of the game file which had a valid decompression utility.

Hi again,
Did all the process again and this time got no error message but cannot run the game... when I click on the game icon in the Myst V EOA folder, nothing happens..... quite disappointing

quote:

Originally posted by frenchfly1954:
Hi again,
Did all the process again and this time got no error message but cannot run the game... when I click on the game icon in the Myst V EOA folder, nothing happens..... quite disappointing

Hi frenchfly1954

Don't know why it's not starting. Could you run the Console application (in Applications/Utilities) and look in the System Log for messages at the time when you tried to run the game - there may be something relevant in there.

I will post the instructions for fixing the decompression problem soon.

Hi GeoffR, This is what I get from the console :
15/10/09 22:37:57 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[125] ([0x0-0x13013].com.ubisoft.mystv[185]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages.app/Contents/MacOS/Myst V End of Ages", ...): Permission denied15/10/09 22:37:57 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[125] ([0x0-0x13013].com.ubisoft.mystv[185]) Exited with exit code: 1
Strange, this permission denied.. I did the chmod command...

Sound Decompression Fix

The installation procedure detailed above appears to work O.K. apart from a problem with decompressing the game sounds. There is an application which is supposed to run during installation to decompress the sound files but it is not an executable file for some reason so never runs. The following procedure should work (I tried doing a “CHMOD +x” on the main game file but that doesn’t fix the decompression utility).

You will need to run the Terminal utility and also have a Finder window open.

In Finder, navigate to the Ubisoft/Cyan Worlds/Myst V/End Of Ages/Myst V End of Ages.App file.

In the Terminal window enter:

cd
that is “cd” and a space

Now drag and drop the “Myst V End of Ages.App” file behind “cd” and then press return.

Now go back to the Finder window and right-click (or ctrl-click) on the “Myst V End of Ages.App” file and select “Show Package Contents”. This will open another Finder window showing the “Contents” folder. Click on “Contents” then “Resources” and scroll down until you find the “plSoundDecompress” file.
Right-click on this file and select “Show Package Contents”. This will open another Finder window showing the “Contents” folder. Click on “Contents” and then on “MacOS”. This will display two files, called “plSoundDecompress” and “plSoundDecompress.xsym”. These should be of Kind = Unix Executable but they are Kind = Document.

To fix them, do the following.

In the Terminal window enter:

chmod +x

Now drag and drop the “plSoundDecompress” file to the Terminal window and press return.

chmod +x

Repeat with the other file.

Exit the Terminal utility.
Close the second Finder window.

You need to go back to the “plSoundDecompress” utility by right-clicking on the “Myst V End of Ages.App” file and selecting “Show Package Contents” then clicking on “Contents” and “Resources” and scrolling down to the file.
You should be able to double-click this file to launch it and it should run for some time decompressing the sound files.

Hi GeoffR,
Thank you!
I solved my problem typing chmod +x on the file on which the permission was denied, applied your instructions for the sound and now I have the game loaded and fully operational!!!!I jest run the introduction and the game rune really perfectly with a nice sound! will see if I get same issues afterwards like you. But I am really grateful for your valuable support. Thanks again