cwisfa Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Hi all, First post here- I've searched for my problem, but no on else seems to have my problem. If you could help in any way, it'd be greatly appreciated :angry2: So here's my background: 2.2Ghz Intel Dual-core processor 2GB DDR2 RAM Radeon X1550 512MB GPU 320GB Western Digital SATA HDD. Alrightey. Now, with the specifications out of the way, let me tell you my story. Firstly, I thought it'd be a good idea to have Mac for presentations and XP for just general gaming and E-mail etc. My native OS is XP, so I was going to dual-boot Mac on a seperate primary partition. I followed this tutorial (which, by the way- is written for Vista): http://inihilist.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/...and-fool-proof/ It was incredibly helpful, although I did have to tweak a few things to suit XP instead of Vista. After following the tutorial, I felt- hey. I need Keynote; it's pretty much the only reason I want Mac on my HDD, aside from a few other things. So I downloaded the trial of Keynote and registered a serial key. Then, when I clicked on Keynote- it came up with a blank screen. I clicked OK, and as I watched my memory usage rush from 0% 2% to constant readings of 98% 97%, I decided to 'Force Quit' Keynote. I searched Google for a while, using these facts: In console (which I found by chance), it read more than four-thousand lines of: invalid pixel context invalid context ... to which my computer was making a big fuss over. I figured after a lot of searching that my Radeon X1550 didn't support CI/QE and perhaps that was the reason why I couldn't use iWork '08 properly. So, I went around googling for 'Core Image hacks' and stuff, and realised there was no real answer. With two last searches, I found these pages- http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry477069 ... I didn't want to download 1.1GB just to be able to fix Keynote- I was nearing my bandwith limit. I'm in Australia, and a 15GB limit is quite large for a home connection. Anyhow, I also stumbled upon this page: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=7230 It was very similar to the pages I had seen before- but Keynote doesn't have a Defaults.plist, so it didn't work. However, there were quite a number of posts that wanted to know the same answer I did. So, doing a little more digging uncovered one guy that (on the second page of the thread) posted up a Defaults.plist file that would let Keynote work. It worked! Pages now works too. However, there's one thing that is really annoying me- in Keynote; the transitions are to die for. However, whenever I click on the 'Inspector' button, it just shows the clicking animation of the button and does nothing. I was under the impression that it was meant to bring up a prompt of some sort. I'd like to know if it's a problem with the way I installed my OS, if it's because I've de-activated SFRAcceleratedCanvas, or if it's because I'm dual-booting. Any advice would be great Thanks in advance, and I hope someone replies. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Go for a compatible GPU, they arent that expensive anymore. look at the wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwisfa Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Do you think that's my problem? I was thinking of going to the nearest computer shop and buying one- but I'm starting to think that I don't really need it- I've got a 512MB graphics card already; and I don't want to downgrade just to use Keynote. ... I mean, if it is- then I will probably express my interest in purchasing one... but- that's just as a last resort. Thanks for the help, it means a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogdan Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 hello, i've also used the same Defaults.plist for keynote, but i can't run it in fullscreen saying i haven't got enough vram and also inspector doesn't run please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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