Installing nVidia GeForce drivers on Mac OS 9 Classic Support

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Installing nVidia GeForce drivers on Mac OS 9 Classic Support

hi, everyone !

I have just installed classic support on my Quicksilver and i don't know how to install the drivers for my GeForce Ti4600 OEM video card.

Can you please give me more information ? 😀

Cheers !

PowerBook G4 17" 1.67GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.11), PowerMac G4 DP800 MHz

Posted on Jan 25, 2010 7:46 PM

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Limnos

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Jan 25, 2010 11:56 PM in response to eskobar

A card usually has to be specified as Mac compatible, so make sure yours states that.

In Classic the hardware is still being run by OSX and even if a OS9 driver exists it won't do anything. However, for most cards the Mac OS already has the drivers built in and you don't need special drivers. Do you know that there are Mac drivers for this card?

Not that I usually use e-bay as a reference source, but this site http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270498028246 has a lot of specifications for that card, including saying there aren't any drivers for Macs.

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a brody

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Jan 26, 2010 8:41 AM in response to eskobar

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com may be another place to find references you need.

Classic driver support is not the same as booting into Mac OS 9 support.

For instance Simcity 2000 would only run on my iMac G4 if I booted into Mac OS 9. When I try to run it in Classic, it stalls trying to load. The same thing happened to John Madden 2000 unless I changed to software graphics mode, and then only when booted into Mac OS 9.

Booting means going into Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk and selecting the Mac OS 9 System Folder, and restart. Whereas Classic loads it in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Classic without a reboot.

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