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Hi OSX lovers,

 

I have an problem. I've tried Luxor 2 and Civilization 3 but everytime i start them i get blank screen on my laptop. I think it has some connections with refreshing rate because i get same effect when trying to switch 70hz refresh from desktop. My Machine is IBM thinkpad t40, calisto 006, ati 7500 pack, and config:

 

Radeon Mobility 7500:

 

Chipset Model: Radeon Mobility 7500

 

Type: Display

 

Bus: AGP

 

VRAM (Total): 32 MB

 

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

 

Device ID: 0x4c57

 

Revision ID: 0x0000

 

Displays:

 

Color LCD:

 

Resolution: 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz

 

Depth: 32-bit Color

 

Core Image: Not Supported

 

Main Display: Yes

 

Mirror: Off

 

Online: Yes

 

Quartz Extreme: Supported

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please help, everything else is working perfectly.

 

 

 

P.S. Is there any way to specify refresh rate for all aplications?

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same problem i can't play any game just black screen and i can hear just sound.

i have 2.6MHz Core2Duo 8GB RAM NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB and ABIT IP35Pro Motherboard

Please send me an e-mail if you know how to fix it.

Thanks :unsure:

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lol i spent hours trying to figure out why i couldnt change my screen resolution or start a game on my new computer i built..has a 8800gt OC manufactured by zotac, i thought it was the card so i tried tons of different drivers and everything i could think of to get the resolution to change (without restarting the PC and getting games to play) of course after a wasted saturday i tried the other dvi port and it works flawlessly.

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I should give this a try. My notebook running x700 runs most games flawlessly on 10.4.9. My desktop got dual DVI 8600GT and games got sound alright but no picture. Exiting the game doesn't help my cause as a full on reboot is required. Sexy!

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same problem i can't play any game just black screen and i can hear just sound.

i have 2.6MHz Core2Duo 8GB RAM NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB and ABIT IP35Pro Motherboard

Please send me an e-mail if you know how to fix it.

Thanks ;)

 

Happens the same to me.

When I start Battlefield screen goes black and I can only hear sound.

 

According to my system configuration all looks ok...

 

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Same problem here, qe/ci fully supported and enabled, using nvidia geforce 9500 gt,, only blue screen w/ sounds when I try to play games for mac os x,,

 

Try switching video ports as suggested by cyclonefr a few posts earlier. That work for mE when I built my first hackintosh a year ago.

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Had that problem too, first I switched to the other DVI port (that one that is nearer to your mainboard) and then I installed another graphics kext. Switched from NVkush to NVdarwin. You could try that. And if you have a DVI and VGA port, use the DVI port.

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I'm having the problem you all describe with Sims 3.

 

My card (9800GT) is installed correctly, the game starts and I only see the cursor (the rest is a black screen).

 

I know you're suggesting to use the DVI port instead of the VGA one, but I'm already using the DVI port.

 

I'm going to restart and try the VGA port in a couple of minutes (waiting for a download to finish). I'll post if it worked or not.

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I tried restarting only using the VGA connector only, but it didn't work.

 

Could it have something to do with the fact that :

 

  • I don't have a DVI cable with my monitor, only a VGA one (it has the 2 connectors on the monitor, though)
  • I use a VGA-DVI convertor to connect to my PC

 

Any thoughts ?

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