Betty Lou I'm playing Myst V and am having pretty much the same problems you are. But my game crashed and rebooted when I was by the lake trying to do the "heat" puzzle.

When I tried to go back in the game all my saved games were corupted and I had to start the game from the beginning!

I was not happy! I had to do the frozen lake thing all over again and I had a terrible time getting the left lever on the blue dot side to move to the right. I also had a hard time just getting the puzzle to "activate" so the levers were engaged so they could be moved!

I have finished looking thru the telescope and am about to reenter the bubble so I am about where you are.

I hope no one else has the technical problems I am having. My computer crashed to the desk top several times and twiced rebooted all my it self!! I have a Sony multi media Pentium 4 with hyperthreading and a Radeon 9200 video so I don't know why it is crashing and rebooting.

Any one else having similar problems?

OK, Betty, I think I've got where you are now.

If you are actually down on the tram (with the lever in the middle of the floor), you now have access to the building and have to go in to start power and open up some doors.

Starting power is the same as the power startup in the RED room. A left and a right lever that have to be set for maximum brightness to get the outer ring rotating.

Explore the place for clues and it's beauty.

Dadguy

Kaki's Sis,

I had no problems at all with the game.

A reboot!? Sounds like that may be a virus, unrelated to Myst V.

Dadguy

Aside from your crashing being a technical glitch Kaki's sis, you might try this little trick someone else told me about for another game that did that to me - exit the game to your desktop, find the shortcut icon on your desktop and RIGHT CLICK on it to bring up a short menu, choose PROPERTIES and left click to open, choose to mark "compatibility mode" and apply. Exit this menu all the way back to desktop and try the game again. It may or may not help with this game. I am enjoying this one and have had no techie problems with it - yet - hope it stays that way!
Love, Betty Lou

Ah! Okie that makes sense now Betty Lou
It's difficult to tell sometimes from people's posts if they have done a thing or not, and I hate to give away something they might not want to be spoiled on, so they could discover it for themselves.

I'm back! I am in Laki'ahn and have dealt with the windmill. Yet when I go back into the "larger" cage and I see the smaller cage and the pedestal on top of it, with the side open to me I cannot walk under that small cage - the game won't let me, keeps turning me around. And I do not see any way to "climb up" to the pedestal to see the double triangle symbol - am I doing something wrong? This is so frustrating not to be able to go where I want to go! If however I am not supposed to go under that small cage then I'll accept that, just how the heck did you guys climb up to that pedestal? grrrr!
Love, Betty Lou

You may have to make an adjustment.. is the pedestal 'at' water level? (not below with tablet submerged, or up in the air..just 'at' water level)

drdel, the pedestal is above the water over my head - maybe I pulled one of the levers too many times? Bert says to pull right one once and Coehlo says to pull it 3 X - this is confusing! And thanks for coming by sweetie :kiss: You and dadguy are so helpful to little ole me
P.S. I had to delete some of my earlier saves, had about 80 and it seemed to be slowing down a scene loading so deleted about 20 - really don't need them and I took a LOT of pictures/saves! Probably more than I needed to..
Love, Betty Lou

yep you're going to have to bring the pedestal down a bit before you'll be able to step onto it.

Oh, just read the bit about Bert and the other guy..
the big lever at the left you pull to turn the cage controls on.. the left smaller lever you pull once, to raise the pedestal to the water level (you can pull it more to adjust the pedestal until it's at the right level).. it's the right lever you pull more than once..to rotate the cage bars around so you can get in there, or else turn it so it is open to the second stream area.

dadguy I had the same problem when I played the Path of the Shell and URU. I crashed in the game and my computer rebooted and my saved games were corrupted so I had to start all over actually 3 times before I was able to complete URU and Path of Shell.

WOW! and What a terrific game!! I finished it and I love it! BUT I WANT MORE!!!
I readjusted that pedestal and went on my merry way, got another Bahro who was a bit picky over a drawing of mine but finally got it right. Now I'm sorry its over - it cannot be the end of MYST forever, there are too many ages to finish exploring and many more ages can be written if they want to. May just replay this in a different mode so have a bit more freedom. It definitely is a keeper for me.
Guess I'll go crack NiBiRu now (after lunch of course).
Thanks for all your help guys. See ya around GB
Love, Betty Lou :kiss:

I'm so frustrated with this game, I've almost lost interest. Are they shooting for the rocket scientist demographic or what

I've had to resort to the walkthru, yet even so I can't get the heat to raise the valves so I can turn them. ON THE HUTS...when you need to turn the door levers right of left..which end of the lever should be pointing right or left?...the smaller or the larger?

When the Bahro "turns on the heat", how can you tell?

HELP please

Blue,

The valves on the six huts must all be pulled to the right. I can't remember the lever config, but I remember it was simple.. only two positions available, left or right.

When you draw the HEAT symbol properly, the Bahro raises his hands to the sky and there is a blibing light. Then you have 90 seconds to set the blue/red valves.

Remember that once you get the HEAT symbol drawn successfully once, it will appear as an icon on your slate so you don't have to redraw it again...just click the icon.

Dadguy

Bleumoon posted:

I can't get across the lake.
I'm following the walkthru..have the switches in the correct positions... I can begin to move across the lake, but can't get off on the other side.

?????

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan

Bleumoon, are you trying to step onto the far bank at the correct spot on the bacteria path? I only found one spot where I could do that...

I get to the other side but I can't step off...I've cruised along the entire far bank.

Is the correct spot to the left, right, center?

It shouldn't be this difficult.

The only spot I was able to step off; there is a little part sort of jutting towards the pond from the far bank. It's a bit left of the center. So, I just took a step past the center, turned right and hopped off.

Blue,

Also, if you FALL OFF the path that is there for you, you will not be able to exit on the other side. You'll know by the slight drop in height if you fall off.

Aslo, if the HEAT times-out (stops) the path will disappear and you won't be able to get off on the other side... you'll have to return and start the heat again.

Dadguy

I seem to have lost my last posting on this game, therefore, I apologize if I have posted on the wrong thread...but I am at my wits end. I have gotten to the top of the lab...drawn the snake on the slate and dropped it on the floor...(yes I was in front of the large lense and I saw the "door" open on the little island)...however, I am unable to get down all those ladders and stairs, to the pedestal,out of the linking bubble, through the cave to the other side of the island and across the water before the "door"
closes. It is always closed when I get to the beach. Have I done something wrong? Is there a trick to it?

Dhart,

NOBELEN method for getting to the "Rock door" in time:

OK, here is the key to what you are missing...

DON'T go down via the ladders and such.... use the linking pedestal behind you to link to Pedestal #1, then from there RUN (hold the shift key down while you left-click) to the tunnel and across the water to the door. When you do it this way, you will get there so early that you will have to wait for a minute before the door opens!!

Let us know if this does it for you.

Dadguy

Well, I tried it your way. The first time it worked. I listened to Esher...went into the bubble and linked back to Direbo. The slate was not on the pedestal and there was no house, only the brideges. So I tried it again and the door does not open. OOOPS!?????

OK, Dhart,

1. Did you touch the bluish glowing slate in the center of the bubble in the Keep?

2. Did you make a note of the symbol on the pedestal in the Keep so you could draw it on your slate and make a permanant link to the Keep?

If you touched the bluish glowing slate, you are done with the Age, so there is nothing else to do. In the future you might consider waiting to touch the bluish slate until after you make a link to the Keep so you can visit again...

Dadguy

I'm stuck trying to go back to reset the machine for the Docking tram. When I go back the walkway is blocked again with the cable. I move the cable to get by reset the machine and an able to go back and climb down the tram ,but then I can't get the power to work there. What have I missed? Todelmer Thanks Diane

Hi Dianne,

To reset the tram, you have to move the switch on top to the LEFT, then click the button. When it reaches the farthest left distance (i.e., right up against the dock on the other side) the switch will no longer have any effect. So, as a test, see if it will move RIGHT once, then turn it to the LEFT again and click the bottom switch till it goes no farther.

Other than that, I'll have to experiment to see what might cause this.

Cheers,

Dadguy

I have no idea why my path was blocked but I moved the cables again and was able to get to the top controls. Rode the tram and finished Todelmer.Now I'm on to Noloben. Thanks for your help. Diane