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Why cant I play games on my hackintosh??
I installed iAtkos 5i and managed to get everything work, including my HD 4870 video card.
My question is, why am I able to play a demo I downloaded from apples website, but I cant play cod4 that I downloaded from a website. Once it mounted the .dmg it verified the disk... But when I go to play it, the screen turns black and then about 5 - 10 seconds later, Im guessing the computer freezes cause my keyboard doesnt do anything when I press caps lock, it has a light on it when i press it to let me know its enabled. Also, my monitors power button starts flashing instead of staying on..? Thanks in advance. ASUS Maximus Formula Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 4GB OCZ Reaper 1066mhz + 2GB Dominator 1066mhz Sapphire HD4870 5 WD Sata hard drives 2 IDE DVD, Sony/LG Antec P180 Antec Tru Power 650 Zalman 9700 led |
#2
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Core Image and Quartz Extreme are enabled? Look in 'About this Mac' -> More information -> Graphics.
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#3
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Yes, they are enabled.
Im not in front of it right now, but I believe one of them say enabled and the other one says supported?? ASUS Maximus Formula Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 4GB OCZ Reaper 1066mhz + 2GB Dominator 1066mhz Sapphire HD4870 5 WD Sata hard drives 2 IDE DVD, Sony/LG Antec P180 Antec Tru Power 650 Zalman 9700 led |
#4
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Does anyone have another idea about this issue?
ASUS Maximus Formula Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 4GB OCZ Reaper 1066mhz + 2GB Dominator 1066mhz Sapphire HD4870 5 WD Sata hard drives 2 IDE DVD, Sony/LG Antec P180 Antec Tru Power 650 Zalman 9700 led |
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I have an idea, my screen used to do that when I would play my halo demo in full screen. Oh my Graphix card there where two female inputs that I could plug my cable that goes to my monitor into. All I did was change the port to the one it wasn't plugged into.
Lets say its plugged into the 1st port. Try using the second one. Mac OS X 10.5.5 • Voodoo 9.5.0 • 2.7 GHz AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ • 2 GB 1334 MHz DDR2 • NVIDIA GeForce 9500M-M MB • Maxtor 75 GB IDE |
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Nice.. Let me try that, I will let you know..
Thanks.. Quote:
ASUS Maximus Formula Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 4GB OCZ Reaper 1066mhz + 2GB Dominator 1066mhz Sapphire HD4870 5 WD Sata hard drives 2 IDE DVD, Sony/LG Antec P180 Antec Tru Power 650 Zalman 9700 led |
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I tried that and it didnt change anything...
I figured it out though.. I must have been getting bad downloads or something, because I downloaded another copy of cod4 and it plays flawlessly. I have everything maxed out. Thanks though ASUS Maximus Formula Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 4GB OCZ Reaper 1066mhz + 2GB Dominator 1066mhz Sapphire HD4870 5 WD Sata hard drives 2 IDE DVD, Sony/LG Antec P180 Antec Tru Power 650 Zalman 9700 led |
#8
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I think iAtkos isn't good for playing games...
You should try another distro like iPC,xXx,...or even RETAIL Leopard |
#9
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The distro should not affect this.
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Try updating to 10.5.7 and then see how your games perform. The 10.5.7 update includes the latest OpenGL extensions which provides better support for that card. From what I understand the HD 4870 that shipped with recent Macs have been using a special build of 10.5.6 that enabled the card to work. However, performance has been noted as particularly buggy in some cases.
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