I've been unable to get any help with this and I'm turning to as many MAC forums as I can to see if I can find a solution. Here's the scoop. I have a G4 800 MHz/1024MB machine running Panther 10.3.5. I also have a nVidia GeForce2 MX 64MB VRAM video card. I'm having numerous problems with games that require much less than my system specs. More specifically, I have to dial down all of the display/detail settings in the game and it still ends up being choppy and sometimes as bad as a slideshow. The games I'm having problems with are Alien vs. Predator2, No One Lives Forever2, and Elite Force 2. Hey, I just realized they are all sequels! Anyway I'm running out of options. I've downloaded all current patches and drivers, run Norton Disk Doctor, Speed Disk and Anti Virus, zapped my PRAM, talked with the software developers and no one seems to have an answer. I did get one interesting comment from a tech saying that my I've put so many things in the machine that weren't in it before that that could be the reason it's not working. Hello! It's a MAC! If it's made for the MAC, it works with the MAC. That's why we all own these machines. Anyway, could anyone help? I hope I've supplied all of the necessary info to solve this. I've done this before and typed a novel to tech supports all over and after a few days they'll ask something totally off the wall like "What were you wearing when you booted the game up?" or something weird like that. Write when you can! Thanks in advance!

have you tried setting the frame rate of the games in their settings to a higher or lower rate? have you tried running any of the games on a different OS (lets say Mac OS X 10.2 or even 9) on the same machine? Joshua Coventry Apple Computer Specialist

Yes. I've gone both high and low and have had these problems before I upgraded to Panther. These games wont run in 9 also.

Just a suggestion. Have you tried: 1. Repairing permissions - Use the Disk utility on the Panther Install CD. 2. Turn off all sharing in System Preferences. rider6675

Yes, I repaired permissions and I've never had my sharing on. Double checked and everything is off.

I'm guessing by the lack of further responses I'm on my own again. I don't think I'll ever get an answer. I'm beginning to feel like a Forum leper.

Your Video Performance issues could be caused by heat Some video cards, especially ones that go into macs are smart, so when they get hot they slow down, I think it's called throttling. So either cleaning your video cards heatsink or replacing it with a more powerful aftermarket heatsink should help. I've had similar problems with my PC trying to play Doom 3 just because it pushes the video card so far to the point of over heating. I bought myself a fan from ThermalTake.com and everything as worked great since then. WRT54G