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There are definitely issues that *look* like plugin conflicts, but I think they are in fact more serious issues caused by changes in MacOS X 10.5.4 and higher. I started with 10.5.6 and completely trashed my old SC4 Deluxe folder, trashed the old preference file, copied a new instance directly from the DVD, and launched the new copy of the game. The texture problems appeared after just a few minutes of road building, zoning, and zooming. As I noted before, I have a MBP 2,2 with ATI Radeon X1600 256 MB video adapter. SC4 Deluxe worked without problems on earlier versions of 10.5 and on 10.4. I'm beginning to suspect that the people having problems meet the following criteria: * Intel Mac * certain ATI Graphics chipsets * MacOS X 10.5.4 or higher

Unityx, it appears most of the problems posted, including mine, are indeed with Intel Macs. As far as 10.5 is concerned, the specific issues I have had (colored road textures appearing in zoned areas and huge, mismatched mouse cursor) appeared on my Intel Mac only after installing recent 10.5 updates. Given all the same variables (Intel Mac, ATI, 10.5), my copy of SC4 ran without any problems on the original release of 10.5.

Originally posted by: VIPStephan I have no issue on the latest Mac mini with OS 10.5.6quote> But your Mac mini has nVidia graphics, correct? The texture glitches seem to be happening with ATI cards and 10.5.x.

I've heard that the ATI cards have some issues, and of course, the newer Macs are now using nVidia cards. I suspect that updated ATI drivers in 10.5 are to blame for some problems, because I had no issues with SC4 on earlier versions of 10.5 or even 10.4 "Tiger" before that. I wish there was some easy way to figure out what changed in the later 10.5 releases. Aspyr seems less than willing to provide patches to fix the problems. I'm intrigued with editing graphics rules, etc., but I'm not sure where to start...

Hey all, How do you go about adding graphics rules for other video cards? I have a MacBook Pro with an ATI Radeon X1600 256MB video card. I have tried the updated graphics files, but none seem to fix the terrible graphics/texture glitches that have appeared since applying the last few 10.5 updates. In addition to road textures appearing in clouds and zoned areas as others have reported, I am having an issue where the game displays a large road piece (maybe 4 or 5 tiles in width) in place of where the normal mouse cursor should be. It really makes the game unplayable. For the record, this is a new install straight from the DVD without any patches, mods, or other changes. Thanks for any tips.

Originally posted by: joeymozzer what is 10.5? im very new to this whole thing. where and how do i get a new version?quote> 10.5 is short for version 10.5 of Mac OS X ("Leopard&quot. I think that there is something that has changed with the video drivers in 10.5, because I have had terrible graphics problems with Aspyr SC4 Deluxe on my Intel MacBook Pro since applying the last two or three 10.5 updates (10.5.x - where "x" is the minor number of the latest update, currently at #6, or 10.5.6). I don't think you can get new versions of supported video drivers for Mac OS outside of the updates Apple provides.