Playing Age og empires2 on Macbook Pro

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Playing Age og empires2 on Macbook Pro

Hi! I recently got my brand new MacBook Pro With nvidia GeForce 8600M GT grafich card. But When i try to run my game, Age of empires2
I get this message up:
Could not initalize grapichs system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with directdraw.
Error
What is causing this, and is ther a way to play the game again?
Plz Help

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 13, 2008 6:19 AM

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Ogmios

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Apr 13, 2008 12:45 PM in response to Mac_Ninja

I bet it is related to the issue others are having with certain older games:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1481941&tstart=45

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Apr 13, 2008 1:11 PM in response to Mac_Ninja

AoE2 is so old, but i can run it on my 2.33 MBP. but since it was designed to run on the PPC macs there are so many things that can get messed up. your GC may be to new to run it.

-matt

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Mac_Ninja Author

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Apr 13, 2008 1:34 PM in response to Mac_Ninja

Maybe the best way is to mail Nvidia about this.

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VivaLaCaz

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Apr 13, 2008 2:37 PM in response to Mac_Ninja

I have the same problem, it runs on my MacBook Core Duo and iMac G5 running Tiger, but not my Leopard MBP.

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Apr 13, 2008 3:07 PM in response to Mac_Ninja

Kinda strange. I have sent a mail to Nvidia, so i can post the answer from them when i get the mail..

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Apr 14, 2008 6:35 AM in response to Mac_Ninja

Got mail form Nvidia.. Here's what they sad:

Hello Hans Martin,

Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

I understand that you have a GeForce 8600M GT graphics card in your Apple notebook. You are having difficulty in playing the game Age of Empires 2. You get a message to ensure that the card and the driver are compatible with Direct Draw.

The GeForce 8600M GT is Direct Draw compatible. However please note that, we provide the basic chipsets to Apple, and Apple custom build the graphics cards to suite a particular model of Notebook. Also, the display drivers for Apple notebook GPU's are custom made for the notebook make and model they are used in to support some of the hot plug n play features your notebook supports. For this reason, the desktop Forceware display drivers, which are available on our web site, will not work on your notebook. For these reasons, we do not know the features enabled and options available with an Apple graphics card or its driver.

Please contact Apple for assistance on the issue you have.

Please feel free to contact us for any further clarifications.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care

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Apr 14, 2008 9:35 AM in response to Mac_Ninja

This may be one reason to find the Windows version of AoE II and run it under Boot Camp. As far as I know, virtualization software like Fusion is still not much for games.

Nate

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Apr 15, 2008 3:10 AM in response to Mac_Ninja

Don't you think that apple knows how to deal with this??

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Apr 15, 2008 6:17 AM in response to Mac_Ninja

if i remember right there was another issue that were caused by the nivida drivers, i think it was the distorted text issue people have been having the the resizing and flashing stuff in safari, on the new MBPs. one guy said his issue had gotten accelerated all the way to the engineering guys and they said it was being worked on but they had no idea for an ETA on the update.

-matt

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