Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box Forum

The game crashes on startup under CX Games 9.2.0 on my mac, saying "This machines GPU does not support Shader Model 3, which is required to run this game." My graphics card is an ATI X1600, which definitely supports Shader Model 3. I am able to play the game under Boot Camp on this computer, so clearly the graphics card can handle it. Has anybody run into this and fixed it? I saw the initial post about this problem back in '09, but as the thread was locked I made a new one.

Hi,

Comparisons against Windows are useless -- it's not a matter of
what the X1600 can or cannot do ; it's more a case of what the video
chipset drivers are telling the program...and I'm not entirely
sure the OSX drivers support Shader Model 3 on X1600 ..I'll see what
I can find out...oh, which version of OSX are you using?

Also..the locked thread you speak of..where exactly is that?

Cheers!

Thanks for the response. I'm using 10.6.6, and the locked thread is the thread at the very bottom of the forum page for Burnout (post by theultimo).

It wouldn't surprise me all that much if the OSX drivers didn't support it, as I've been burned enough times by these drivers, including for the native versions of L4D and L4D2 (which work wonderfully under CXGames, thankfully). It's just a real pain to have to reboot to play Burnout every time, especially because there's a bug in the audio drivers that makes me sound like a chipmunk over voice chat.