You need to install the optional "AllowOldGPUS.plugin". It’s in the Goodies folder.
But if this only just started to happen, and it was previously working properly, you need to check that the card is properly seated and perhaps trash your Photoshop prefs.
Also, try using a new User Account.
There are no Mac drivers for the card Β its part of Mac OSX.
Thank you Buko. I attempted to find it with Google but to no avail. I’ve now downloaded the two plugins. There doesn’t appear to be any instructions. I assume I install them in the Photoshop Extensions folder?
Also, try doing an Archive & Install because the driver is part of OSX and your installation may have corrupted.
I don’t imagine that you have another OpenGL-supporting card that you could swap with the problematic one do you? If you do, I would try doing that too.
My version of the 7800GT is supposed to be connected to the internal power supply in addition to being inserted in the first slot.
The internal power supply outlet in a G5 is located on the rear end of the optical drive.
I imagine that this is required so that sufficient power is available to drive the fan on the card fast enough.
Temperature Monitor (downloadable from the Web) shows my GPU is running at 113Β°F which is within specs. Β optimally it should be running at less than 120Β°F.
If yours is running at a higher temp., you may need to install an auxiliary fan.
My head is exploding. So much of this I am not up to speed on with knowledge. I also am feeling a time crunch. I think I’ll have to come back to this once I’ve gotten far enough along on a job to send a client an update.
I don’t know which card this is. But once I finish this job, or at least reach a place where I can take a breather I’ll try to move everything and open up the computer to check it out. This is the card that came installed in my G5.
I don’t know what the tolerances are for your particular graphics card, but if my graphics card eve ran that hot, I would definitely freak out. :/ But, your card may have greater tolerances, I don’t know.
My graphics card has never reached 126ΒΊF, which is 52.2ΒΊC.
I don’t know what the tolerances are for your particular graphics card, but if my graphics card eve ran that hot, I would definitely freak out. But, your card may have greater tolerances, I don’t know.
Of course it would happen to me. If I can find a picture of the graphics card I’ll pull it out like a bad tooth. π
If it goes up in smoke I’ll just call the Apple store and get myself a new MacPro… and save myself some taxes this year.
If I can find a picture of the graphics card I’ll pull it out like a bad tooth.
If you do that, you will either need to put it back again or you will need an "Implant" Β or you wont see anything on your monitor at all!
Look in your G5 Manual to see exactly where the video card is installed Β or look inside to see which card is providing the connection-port for your monitor.
(Video cards slots are on the back wall as you look in from the open side panel.)
Look in your G5 Manual to see exactly where the video card is installed Β or look inside to see which card is providing the connection-port for your monitor.
(Video cards slots are on the back wall as you look in from the open side panel.)
Melt down, melt down. Me no understand English. Me no understand pingcuters either.
The "AllowOldGPUs" plugin is there for you to use at your own risk. It doesn’t solve any known bugs, it only allows cards/drivers that say they don’t work well enough to use the GPU code in Photoshop to TRY and use the GPU code in Photoshop.
I have had it happen twice on my G5 Quad with a single 7800 GT card. All I did was to turn the Open GL features back on in the performance preferences, quit PS and launch it again. The problems go away for weeks at a time but then all of a sudden PS will give me the alert again.
I haven’t tracked it down yet but I do know I had LR opened first one of those times and I’m watching out for it again.
I have had it happen twice on my G5 Quad with a single 7800 GT card. All I did was to turn the Open GL features back on in the performance preferences, quit PS and launch it again. The problems go away for weeks at a time but then all of a sudden PS will give me the alert again.
Hey Jim, I just tried what you said you did, and it worked. The warning went away.
Prior to that I removed the plug-in since I’ve been running PS without it all this time. I still got the warning though until I turned the Open GL features back on, as you suggested.
Do I really need that plug-in since I had the better video card that came with my Mac new? I’m not even sure i had it in the right folder anyway. There were no instructions.
Also my fan is working without the power cord Ann mentioned I don’t think Linda needs the power cord either as she has a late model G5. ut the card needs to be in the bottom slot (first) and the original card needs to be removed.
I’m not ignoring anybody, just trying to get my mental compass to point in the right direction after spinning around a few times. π
Also my fan is working without the power cord Ann mentioned I don’t think Linda needs the power cord either as she has a late model G5. ut the card needs to be in the bottom slot (first) and the original card needs to be removed.
My computer came boxed with this video card already installed so I think it’s in the right place. Does this screenshot help?
If you go to Prefs./Performance/GPU settings are you able to check the "Enable OpenGL Drawing" box Β or is it greyed-out? If it IS greyed-out, you will need the "AllowOldGPUS Plug-in".
It seems to be working without the plug-in. Here’s another screen shot:
We found that this 7800 GT ran considerably cooler than the GTX, and we’re curious to see if this will be similar with other 7800 GTs. The load temperature of a card can be important because of the part that it plays in overclocking. It’s also something to consider if you live in very hot climates or have small computer cases with poor circulation. With a temperature of 60 degrees C at 450MHz and 61 degrees C at 462MHz, this card handles heat pretty well. We’ll see if XFX is unique in this among other GT vendors, or if they all generally run this much cooler than the GTX.
Ann – if your card doesn’t work without the plugin, then the card/driver is telling Photoshop that it does not have the capability to use those features. That could be a bug in the driver (like the dual card issue), but more likely it’s telling the truth.
Consequences: poor performance, corrupt display, corrupt memory due to bugs in the driver, crashes, crashing the machine (because we’re dealing with driver and hardware here), etc.
In one known case (so far) it could result in hardware damage (a feature was turned off for a laptop chip because of a known fault, trying to use that feature despite the driver disabling could cause smoke). I believe they have patched the driver to never, ever use that feature now.
In my case, I suspect that the bug is because the Driver is unable to relate correctly to my 7800GT card because it is not an authorised Mac version but is actually a Windows version which has been modified and "flashed" for use on a G5 2GHz Dual.
I have been using the card for a couple of months now with the Plug-in and have not detected smoke Β so far!
Neither have I suffered from any system or performance malfunctions Β in fact CS4 is "solid as a rock" and super-fast. No problems at all!
But thank you for alerting me as to what COULD happen so that I can be alert to the potential for damage.
Hi Folks, I have a Mac Pro (2007) with an Nvidia 8800GT card and am getting this same error message. From reading here is this a known issue or am I missing what’s been said.
Hi Folks, I have a Mac Pro(2007) with an Nvidia 8800GT 512 card installed and just started to get this error message. In reading here is this a known issue or am I missing what’s been said?
No, I do not use LR, only BR as of now. At first when I installed PS CS4 Extended I did not have any problems, but now I am. Not sure where its coming from. When I get the alert/error message and then go check my performance preferences, my video card does not show up and all the OpenGL is unchecked. After rechecking all the boxes and closing, then restarting PS and rechecking its all there again.
Thanks for your help. I have done that and then the 8800GT does show up again, but then when I open a photo, I get the error, I go check on it again and the video card is gone and the OpenGl is then unchecked again.
Thanks for your help. I have done that and then the 8800GT does show up again, but then when I open a photo, I get the error, I go check on it again and the video card is gone and the OpenGl is then unchecked again.
Oh okay. I’m sorry to hear that. Must be something else going on. I hope it gets resolved.
LRK – I use a simple shareware program (have been using it for over a year now w/o problems) called smcFanControl. It gives me control of the minimum fan speed for all of my systems fans. It also puts a system temp on the menu bar. If my graphics card (ATI Radeon X1900 XT) gets to hot I start getting all kinds of horizontal lines where none should be. The temp is easily brought down by increasing some of the fan speeds.
Larry, Thank you for the recommendation. My display seems to be okay but I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to have this kind of extra protection. I’ll give it a try.
Thanks I did find it and downloaded it, but am a little confused on how to install them.
Do I understand correctly to unzip the file, then just drag/drop the plug-ins into the Library/Preferences/Adobe/Plug-in’s folder? After that how do I access them. Sorry but I am totally new to PS and just learning all of its many capabilities.
You can always disable it with a stroke of the tilde key if it doesn’t help.
All that I can tell you is that the "AllowOldGPUs" plug-in makes Advanced Drawing available to me (It is NOT available unless I use the plug-in) and, despite Chris’s warnings, it has not caused any problems here although it has been in constant use for months now.
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