Agua Perdido Posted September 15, 2000 Share Posted September 15, 2000 After a couple months of playing the demo, I finally ordered and received CM a couple of days ago. In anticipation of the worthy event, I upgraded my creaking PowerCenter with an XLR8 Carrier Zif with a G3 clocked up to 400MHz, plus a new monitor and an ATI Rage Orion. No more fuzzy 5-year-old Apple Multiscan with snail-paced onboard video for me! I even upgraded to 0S8.1. On installing the components and CM (everything came on the same day--whee!), I eagerly started it up and... 640x480, crappy on-board video. Despair! I wailed and gnashed my teeth. After browsing this forum and searching the Apple website, I finally realized the Rage Orion wouldn't work with my ancient QuickDraw 3D 1.5.1 extensions. I downloaded a copy of Apple's OpenGL1.1.2 installer (URL: http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11545), which includes QD3D 1.6 and a set of ATI drivers that looked more current than the ones installed by Universal Installer 4.2, but less current than the drivers available at http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11680. Installed the OpenGL package, rebooted--hallelujau! 1024 x 768, fog, transparency, smoke, explosions, the whole nine yards! Can I have an "amen"? Amen! Excellent fun, and I'm already converting my friends. Great job, BTS! I'm looking forward to many hours of fun. (Edited to fix bad URLs) ------------------ Feel the pain of outlaw cinema! [This message has been edited by Agua Perdido (edited 09-15-2000).] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Peace Posted September 15, 2000 Share Posted September 15, 2000 I'm glad you had success. However, the iMac problem is still there because they can't use the older drivers. Warren 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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