Dear Grenideer (and/or anyone):
I am trying to get through an area of the Mines where I cannot see my avatar. This area is just below a large log that blocks my upward path. How do I continue at this area? I am using the Windows version of Diver Down. I shall greatly appreciate any help regarding this matter.
Respectfully:
C. M. Dratz

grenideer:
1) Yes, yes I cannot see Drek. I walk left to an area with numbered blocks South of a Pool of Water that has about five incomplete crossings.
2) As soon as I step Westward away from the Northward hall with the large log blocking further passage Northward toward some of the blocks, pool and incomplete crossings that are in view, the view skips North-West toward the pool and incomplete crossings and leaves Drek out of view to the South. (I can walk him North and into view but the numbered blocks are {semi?}permanently out of view.)
3) Yes, yes the Log by the Pool blocks passage Northward, two Logs closer to the Mines' entrance block passage Eastward and Westward, the Elevator is (temporarily?) inoperable, the Elevator Control Room Door is locked, and the possible workaround to the West of the Northwardly obstructing Log with the Numbered Blocks, Partial Bridges and Pool of Water seems very difficult as all five blocks are forcibly out of view.
4) Yes, yes I cannot enter the Desert as I cannot seem to dismount my steed. I cannot enter the Red Tower. I cannot Sail Southward from the Small Dock. I cannot re-enter the Outpost Westward from the Town to re-cross the Bridge.
5) I Departed South-South-Westward from the Mines to the Town to purchase three Desert Masks for the two men and one elf.
Also, I have discovered that the Windows Edition of Diver Down may require some of the DOS Edition's Directory Structure to be intact for loading the Music started just after using the Key in the opening Dungeon. Diver Down Windows Edition repeatably exited with a message to the effect that Diver Down Win could not find music file 'X'. I could not extract that song from the Diver Down Win .vrg archive but had to Download Diver Down DOS and extract its music directory into the Diver Down Win directory. You may want to investigate this problem and change slightly Diver Down Win to load music only from the .vrg archive and not the uncreated music\ directory or fully extract the .vrg archives into their directories and files.

There are some weirdnesses with the packers, but the windows packer should work fine. The directory structure is inside the packfile. What OS are you using?

Your problem with the dungeon is probably something to do with your video card. Those two rooms (one to the left that you are entering, and one to the right that you need to enter right afterwards) are puzzle rooms and double the resolution of the game. It sounds like your resolution isn't changing at all. A lot of older video cards have trouble with this part but usually they just crash. And going from 320x240 to 620x480 should be possible on your video card.

You have a couple options. I would recommend trying to play through these rooms on another computer. They are puzzles so they may not be automatic. Once you complete them both you'll be fine. If this is impossible, maybe send your savefile right before the rooms to a kindly verger in this forum and they could complete the two puzzles for you, exit the second room, and save right after that, giving you back your savefile. You won't miss any story or anything important at all, just two cool puzzles.

Normally I would do this for you but I don't have internet at my new apartment yet and I really shouldn't do that at work. It should only take 5 minutes of someone's time if they want?

There is one other sequence in the game when the resolution changes, but it is only in a cut scene for several seconds and requires nothing on your part. If your comp doesn't crash you'll be fine.

eep - ya, i meant 640

Hahah, the accidental chapter 4 restart. That's a hilarious bug.

The guy you want to talk to is in the guildhouse.

Ah, but before the ending, he has to do the INVISIBLE WALL ROOM!!!!

Sounds like 320x240 fullscreen doesn't work for you?

Okay, so, open up winv2.cfg. Set change "windowmode" to 1 instead of 0. If you want a double sized window with smooth scaling, set "eagle" to 1 as well.