I must add my voice to this discussion, since I have been experiencing exactly the same "psychedelic display issues" with my brand new Mac. Like the others, I have a G4 dual processor (1 gig) Mac, which comes with the ATI Radeon Pro 9000. My display looks exactly like the screenshot listed earlier in this forum. I too tried all the mentioned workarounds (disabling Classic Rave), booting with minimal extensions, etc., and updating the ATI software to version 1.00 (the only one listed for the Radeon 9000 dated 1/7/03. Nothing works.
I ran the demo for Ghost Recon and Jedi Knight II, and they look wonderful in 3D, with no problems or artifacts.
So it must be some major problem with the new ATI boards, the New Macs (released since mid 02), and Combat Mission (BTW - CM Beyond Overlord looks just as bad). I'll bet anyone who has bought a new Mac in the last 6 months with the new Radeon cards will not be able to run these games. I hope Battlefront will realize this is a very significant problem, and that this issue goes to the top of the "to-fix list"
I also contacted ATI, and got an automated response. Hopefully if enough of us contact them, this will help move to a fix, which seemed to happen with the NVidia problems for the Mac. I don't know how to contact Apple for this issue.
I am a big fan of Battlefront (formerly BigTime Software), and deeply appreciate your production of wargames for the Macintosh, and I trust you will continue to support our platform.
mpvid
