IHC70 Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I've been looking and can't quite find the exact answer to this question, so I'm sorry if this is repetitive. My wife took our Mac laptop and I'm stuck using an old G3 to run CMAK and am having problems. The G3 is running 9.1 and when I start the game, I've set the resolution at 800 x 600, but as soon as the game launches, the screen flickers for a moment and seems to switch resolutions. Then I get the message, "Game requires minimum 800 x 600 resolution" and quits. I saw on another thread that switching resolution to 1280 x 1040 (or something along those lines) can help, but my monitor goes only to 1024 x 768 at 75 Hz. Am I out of luck? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 1024X768 should work, since I always used to run CMBB and CMAK at that res. 800x600 is minimum, and I find that message strange. What graphics card do you have in your G3 tower? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHC70 Posted June 6, 2005 Author Share Posted June 6, 2005 Thanks for the help. Would ATI Rage 128 be the right answer, or do you need more depth? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Originally posted by IHC70: Thanks for the help. Would ATI Rage 128 be the right answer, or do you need more depth? An ATI 7500 PCI would improve it for CMAK 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I'm guessing that your ATI Rage 128 probably has 16Mb of VRAM. While that isn't officially enough for CMAK, it should still run quite well at 800 x 600 with 16Mb (I've even had it run on 8Mb videocards on the PC). Is there a Prefs file present in your CMAK folder (there or the Prefs folder in your System folder) ? If there is, delete it. You may also need to check what you're loading up with the Extensions Manager. To be honest I forget which ATI-related video extensions should be loading up in 9.x, there are several that are QuickDraw/RAVE related that CM will need. You may also want to cut back (at least temporarily) on what you're loading up, especially if it is an extension that didn't come with OS 9.x originally. OS 9.1 should be fine for the CM series. If you care to, you can upgrade to OS 9.2.2 (which requires an upgrade to OS 9.2.1 first), though it may not offer a whole lot above what you're running already. If you do decide to take the plunge, remember to remove the Classic RAVE extension which can potentially cause problems with CM and also uncheck any Nvidia-related extensions since they're not necessary for your G3. [ June 06, 2005, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: Schrullenhaft ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tar Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 I managed to get CMAK running at 1024x768 on the ATI Rage 128 card. I had to do some experimenting with trying different color depths (Thousands vs. Millions) but one of those choices made it all work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haakon73 Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Hi, That message occurs for me when I don't have the right extensions active. I had to turn on the ATI radeon 3d acceleration extension to get it to work right. If you run with a minimum of extensions on like I do, check which ones are off. (G4, OS 9.2.2, factory ATI rage Pro, latest ATI software.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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