Mac issues.. video card related?

[dehydrated]

I recently did a clean install of 10.4, and ever since then, I've had a few gaming related problems.

I've been getting a crash randomly while either opening, or closing a game. At around the same time resolutions switch. During this time, I can't force quit anything, or eject a cd, or anything.. the OS is fully locked up.

My current hardware: pMac G5 - 1.8GHz SP, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9600 XT

I'm just looking for some other opinions, I'm thinking about replacing my video card, it's out of date anyway.

 

[Sun Baked]

Don't use the game until they release a Tiger update.

But if the system is crashing hard while using the game, you may want to doublecheck and run fsck or Disk First Aid.

Every now and then a hard crash will cause some file/catalog problems.

Especially if you are continually repeating the problem.

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Most likely it's using a programing loophole that Apple shut to switch resolutions.

Apple made some changes in the OS that may break some kext files and kill some binary compatibility in Applications -- so they may need to fix some things and/or recompile with the updated libraries.

 

[dehydrated]

I've ran disk first aid, and it caught no errors.

Also, I'm having problems with every game I try. Which includes: World of Warcraft, Halo, etc.

 

[dehydrated]

I purchased a new ATi Radeon X800, and I still have the same problem. I may as well downgrade to 10.3?

or I could get out of the mac scene alltogether, hm!