Lombard Open GL Problem

[sircabulon]

My Lombard (400 Mhz) Will not open anything that uses Open GL. Anyone know a fix? I am running Tiger.

 

[paws]

Did it previously do so? The Lombard's graphics card is its most outdated component.

 

[sircabulon]

I have never been able to open Those Apps. They are only games though, but I would still like them to work. Stepmania and supertux are two that just open, readjust the resolution and then quit.

 

[paws]

I don't know for sure, but I don't think the graphics cards in these old Powerbooks have any 3D acceleration to speak of, and they do only have 8MB of VRAM. Have you checked the system requirements of the applications you're trying to run?

 

[Bunsen]

The Lombard has an ATI 3D accelerated chipset

 

[paws]

The Lombard has an ATI 3D accelerated chipset

Yeah, but there a varying degrees of acceleration and of OpenGL support...

 

[Franklinstein]

Tiger didn't have the greatest support for aged ATI chipsets. Perhaps you should try a downgrade to Panther - that version essentially uses modified OS 9 drivers/resource files for the video (read the XPostFacto documentation for details), so graphics support is often better for older machines (which is the main reason why 10.2 runs on unsupported machines like the 2400/3400/Kanga, but 10.3 won't).

Otherwise, try either a Pismo or a PBG4, or a desktop box, for your graphics-intensive needs.

 

[sircabulon]

all of it works on my beige with an ATI 9200 in it. Looking at the dates, this computer came out in 99 and apple didn't take Open GL until later.

 

[paws]

all of it works on my beige with an ATI 9200 in it. Looking at the dates, this computer came out in 99 and apple didn't take Open GL until later.

Yeah, but the ATI 9200 is what's in a later model iBook G4 - a good five years newer than your Powerbook.