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I just recently installed Photoshop CS4 on my laptop (MACBookPro Intel core2 duo, OS 10.5) and on my G5 PowerPC Dual Processor MAC OS 10.4). I like all the new cool features – including the ability to see the hardness/softness of brushes and smooth zooming, but when I tried these features on my PPC G5 I was disappointed to find they were not there. I found that the problem is that my AGP video card (GE force FX 5200) does not support Open GL 2.0 or Shader Model 3 and it doesn’t have enough memory. I looked through the list of GPUs that have been tested by Adobe, but none of these seem to be compatible with my PPC MAC G5. My question is – is there a video card for my PPC G5 Dual Processor that will enable most, if not all, of the functionality of CS4. From the Forums I’m getting confusing and not very definitive information. For example one discussion says that an ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 4x/8x can be installed on my system, but that it still may not work unless a plug-in (AllowOldGPUs – available from Adobe) is installed. Does anyone know for sure if this solution will work? Or, should I just wait until I finally get motivated to get a newer MAC PRO?
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