Mac Pro w/ ATI 2600 XT cards: Cinebench 4D video issues?

[Mad Mac]

I've just purchased a brand new 2008 Mac Pro with the ATI 2600 XT video card and everything seems to be fine except when I tried to run the Cinebench 4D demo program (not the benchmarking program).

When I try to launch the program (it installed fine), I get some garbled text on the splash screen and after the program loads I see mostly black areas where the tools would be, making the program basically unusable.

My buddy tried it on his iMac and Macbook Pro and had none of the issues I was having. One thread on Apple's forum suggests that it's a Leopard bug with the ATI card and Cinebench 4D.

I'm trying to determine if this is indeed a driver issue or if it's a faulty card. Can someone out there with a Mac Pro and ATI 2600 XT download the Cinebench 4D program and see if it loads and works right? Here's the link to the downloads page: http://www.maxoncomputer.com/download_demo.asp

Thanks.

 

[D4F]

did you download all updates for your Mac?

 

[Mad Mac]

Yes, all updates have been done via the apple logo in the upper left hand corner. 10.5.2, etc.

 

[echoout]

Works fine on mine.

CINEBENCH R10
****************************************************

Tester :

Processor :
MHz :
Number of CPUs : 8
Operating System : OS X 32 BIT 10.5.2

Graphics Card : ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO OpenGL Engine
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

****************************************************

Rendering (Single CPU): 3424 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 19097 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 5.58

Shading (OpenGL Standard) : 6037 CB-GFX


****************************************************

 

[D4F]

Works fine here one a single CPU 2.8

CINEBENCH R10
****************************************************

Tester :

Processor :
MHz :
Number of CPUs :
Operating System : OS X 32 BIT 10.5.2

Graphics Card : ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO OpenGL Engine
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

****************************************************

Rendering (Single CPU): 3232 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 11039 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 3.42

Shading (OpenGL Standard) : 6080 CB-GFX


****************************************************

 

[Mad Mac]

Sorry for the confusion guys. My machine runs the benchmark tool fine. It's the actual Cinema 4D program that won't run right. I've posted a link to the program in my original post. If you can give that a try it would be most appreciated. Thanks.

 

[echoout]

I've been using Cinema 4D for months. No problem. I'm using it right now in fact.

Sorry for the confusion guys. My machine runs the benchmark tool fine. It's the actual Cinema 4D program that won't run right. I've posted a link to the program in my original post. If you can give that a try it would be most appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Mad Mac]

I've been using Cinema 4D for months. No problem. I'm using it right now in fact.

OK. Thanks for the info. Guess my video card is borked or something is wrong.

I found a link where a guy with the 1900 card is having the same issues and Maxon says it's a Leopard bug.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1399404&tstart=0

But if you're running it fine then I'm not sure what to do now. I'm guessing if I take it down to the store they'll just tell me it's a bug in C4D.

 

[echoout]

That sucks. Both Cinema 4D and Lightwave have been great for me. Cinema 4D is a pretty common motion graphics tool. Lots of people on new MPs are using it without problem. Apple should know that, I hope.

 

[D4F]

Try this.
Go to screens/color and change profile.

If you have only 1 then create other and then change them.

I know there was a similar bug with nVidia cards with C4D but not sure about ATI. I use C4D on my Mac Pro with the 2600 and it works just fine.

 

[Mad Mac]

^^^ I'll try that tonight. Hopefully it works.

Edit: I tried your suggestion and it worked! Thanks for the help.