open gl

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Knuckles2001 Author

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open gl

I think i have open GL on my ibook g3 clamshell but when ever i try playing a game that requires open gl i get a error message.

Posted on Jul 14, 2014 5:58 PM

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Answer 1

a brody

Level 10

85,366 points

Jul 15, 2014 5:14 AM in response to Knuckles2001

The iBook G3's OpenGL support is fairly weak. You can only run up to Mac OS X 10.3.9 on the older iBook G3s without Firewire, and Mac OS X 10.4.11 with. Games usually give graphics chip requirements. You can find out which graphics chip you have with this website:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/index-ibook.html

and

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6413

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Answer 2

bund

Level 3

809 points

Jul 15, 2014 6:18 AM in response to Knuckles2001

The OpenGl version provided by 10.3.9 is version 1.5 (included in the 10.3.9 combo-update?)

Check the system requirements for your game.

The non firewire iBook with 4MB VRAM is not a speed demon, only a limited number of OSX games perform well.

The original iBook was released back in 1999 with OS8.6 / OS9, so it is recommended to stick to games which were released in those years, e.g. Age of Empires Gold edition which runs both on OS9 and OSX.

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