Latest Mac a Complete Dud with CMBB-HELP!

[Spike-o]

I just bought a new Power Mac dual ghz, with an ATI 9000 pro 64MB card. it runs OS 10.2, OS 9.2 and Classic. Just cant get CMBB to run properly, graphics wise. When i run it in Classic (classic what?) i can get as far as loading the game, but all i get is a black screen, with 3 small white rectangles in the center. I hear tank sounds and voices and that's it. Game over. When i boot to 9.2, i get past "loading images" and i get a very indistinct, psychadelic landscape. the game will play, if you can find the units in this Timothy Leary Land. Any one have any idea how i can fix this? Have already contacted Apple and ATI. Both unhelpful. Hope you can help, thanks!

[offtaskagain]

Neither CMBO or CMBB can run in OS X, even under classic mode. I'm not a Mac owner so I don't know what the issue is with running it in 9.2.

[Wicky]

Originally posted by Spike-o:

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Spike,

Using Mac OSX's System Preferences - change the Start Up to your OS 9.2 system folder. Reboot to get OS 9 up & running, then install CM and play on. To get back to OSX - Control Panels - Start up - Set to OSX system and viola. Don't persevere with trying to run CM in classic as it only works (when set up) badly at most. There have been a few discussions about CM running on Macs so do a search and find out more that way.

Have fun & let us al know if you get tranparent smoke with your sooper dooper ATI card

[Spike-o]

Thanks for your response, but i already had used OS X startup to boot to OS 9, then reinstalled CMBB in OS 9.2, and it didn't work, just the effects i described in my post. It sounds like people are running this on their OS 10 systems (using OS 9, not classic) . I'm wondering if they are running an earlier version of 10 or what. I'm stumped!

[Ben Galanti]

When you boot into 9, there will be an extension in the OS 9 extensions folder called "Classic RAVE" or something close to that. You'll have to remove that (or set up an extension manager setting without that one) and boot like that.

Ben

[Spike-o]

Thanks Ben, i tried that by creating an extensions set with "Classic Rave" turned off,

but i still have the same problem. Driving me nuts. It's a bummer when you spend all that money on apple's latest and greatest and cant get your favorite application to work.

[niallist]

psychedelic landscapes, tell me about it.

(see earlier thread.)

.http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=002796

I still haven't been able to sort it out and it sounds like exactly the same thing. Except I'm running a G3 Powerbook on OS 8.6. So I really don't think it's a OS9/OSX problem. I don't know what it is.

hilfe....... hilfe uns! Die maschine sind kaput!

[Spike-o]

Thanks N, I checked out the thread. if you ever find what works let me know. will do same.

spike-o

[Hoopenfaust2]

Spike

If it isn't too late, partition your hard drive. Since you have a brand new computer it won't be hard since you don't have much installed ( I hope)

Have mac os 9 on a seperate partition than your classic and OS 10. You can then completly customize your OS 9 extension set to just play CMBB

[Michael Emrys]

Partitioning is really a good idea if you want to do that. But there is a solution short of that. Establish a separate System Folder with a pure version of 9.2.2 in it and make sure that Classic RAVE isn't in the extensions. Then select that as your Startup Folder and reboot. You should be good to go.

It sounds to me like what is happening is that X is reinstalling Classic RAVE whenever you reboot. It's known to do that.

Michael

[Michael Emrys]

Originally posted by niallist:

psychedelic landscapes, tell me about it.

(see earlier thread.)

.http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=002796

I had an odd thing happen for a while. If I loaded and ran BB after waking my Mac up afer a sleep, I would get some strange, mixed-up textures. If I quit BB and restarted, it would then run okay...except once the problem showed up after a fresh start.

Then I got a new card and drivers and moved from 9.1 to 9.2.2 and the problem hasn't returned. I don't know what the fix was or whether it is permanent yet.

I do have some spiffy screenshots from the earlier period though, if anybody wants to see them.

Michael

[Spike-o]

After talking with Apple, they decided I should try a new ATI 9000 pro video card. They sent one out, I tried it, and it didn't make a lick of difference. Am still searching for the holy CM grail. will contact apple again tomorrow and see where i should go from here.