Hello.

I currently boot my OSX from an external drive, but is it possible to use an external drive for brightness control with OS9?

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Thanks for the reply. I tried increasing and decreasing the DAE memory, but it didn't solve the problem. After installing 5.1.2 TDM, LOGIC 6 also stopped working.

Hi. I've got a 15in iMac G4 USB 2.0 that I have set up to dual boot OSX Tiger and OS9 that I got from here. I have no audio, no 3d video acceleration, and sometimes the display is stuck at 256 colors, sometimes million. Despite this saying it is set to 256 colors, games that require 256 color mode like Power Pete look incorrect. Curious if any advancements for solving these issues have been found. Been digging through the forums and trying stuff but no luck. I'd love to run OS9 stuff on this, mostly games which Tiger's classic mode just chokes on. Thanks for all the hard work so far.

Pro Tools LE 5.x on OS 9 does not have modern track freeze/commit. So yes, with amp sims like AmpliTube 1 and Bomb Factory plugins, you have to do the old-school workaround: print/bounce the processed audio and disable the RTAS plugin.

I would not downgrade from a G4 800 MHz to a G3 400 MHz for this kind of session. A G3 can run Digi 001 / Pro Tools 5, but your current session is already CPU-heavy, especially because of AmpliTube. The G3 will be much worse for virtual amps and RTAS plugins.

Also, if your Digi 001 license/install allows it, try Pro Tools LE 5.1 or 5.1.1 on OS 9.2.2. It is still period-correct and generally a better version than 5.0.

Hellooo guys, this is my first post in this wonderful forum, for an big issue that`s coming for me, nowdays i have an Power Mac G4 QuickSilver with one 800mhz CPU and 512mb of RAM, but i`m in trouble with my Pro Tools LE 5.0, i`m running on Mac OS 9.2.2 and i have an HUGE problem with Pro Tools LE 5.0 being NOT able to freeze tracks, so i need to bounce every track i have to get less CPU usage, but it`s SUCKS, it`s very frustrating because it was supposed to be very fast on an 800mhz CPU with an fast system, and i use around 16 main tracks, such as 8 tracks for rythm guitar, 2 for lead guitar, 2 for bass, 1 for vocals, 1 for backing vocals, 1 for organ or synth and 1 for piano, but it can be more tracks if i put more layers of details in the music such as doubling vocals and stuff or more MIDI and withou even considering the AUX busses for such as delay and reverb, and this all with heavy plugins as bombfactory 1176 or the most CPU hungry Amplitube 1, make my G4 cry without "freezing" tracks by bouncing, so i need to bounce individually at least 4 tracks thats the rythm guitar tracks with the amplitube plugin, because the rest is just DI tracks, i know i was supposed to use real amps or an muilt effects pedal such my ME-70 but its broken and needs to be repaired and i need to be more safe with my money but i have to release already my demo at least, but, let`s to the future issue, i will donate that G4 and my Digi001, but i will get another 001 i found very cheap, but the computer, the only i found in good condition and cheap price is an Power Mac G3 400mhz, 128mb of RAM, but, i know that the Pro Tools 5.0 was designed for G3`s and stuff, but if i`m getting trouble with an G4 800mhz, it can be worse on G3, so, what you guys recommend me to do? I think is not RAM issue because, man, is 512mb, and i when i monitored the RAM usage, it consumed around 80-120mb with all but it can bump to 200 or more, but when i used the original 256mb RAM, it was with 50-100, i think it`s very modular for the RAM amount in the system, but i think it`s better with 128mb or more, so i have RAM here to bump those 128mb, if anyone can help with some optimization or better way to do bounces or recordings to make everything more productive i will be happy 

This is usually a classic Mac OS memory allocation issue, not actual RAM being “full”.

Try this:

Quit Pro Tools.
In Finder, open the DAE Folder.
Click the DAE application once.
Press Command–I / Get Info.
In the Memory section, increase Preferred Size.

For a 16 MB machine, try something like:

DAE Preferred Size: 12000–14000 K
Minimum Size: leave lower, e.g. 8000–10000 K

Then reboot and launch Pro Tools again.

Also check:

Make sure Virtual Memory is OFF in the Memory control panel.
Close all unnecessary apps.
Use a lean Mac OS extension set.
Trash Pro Tools / DAE preferences if it still crashes.
If the machine only has 16 MB RAM, that is very tight. More RAM would help a lot, especially for Pro Tools + DAE.

The important part is: increase the memory allocation of DAE, not just Pro Tools.

Thanks.

I'm running no OS at all at the moment. The HD is totally clean ready to install OS9, but I can't do that without video. The card is the 64Mb card installed at birth.

The output ports on the standard card are DVI and ADP. I really don't want to buy a 4th cable.

I'm getting an error message saying "dae memory is running low, please try to increase dae preferred size," followed by "unable to create a dae deck." When I click OK, the program crashes. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

No mention of what exact video card is present.
Can you try a simple VGA connection to test output?

AND, what OS are you now running on the MDD?

*Also mentioned using an “old” iMac’s 640 GB HD (with an adapter card?). SSD?

If a VGA test connection also yields “no signal” to your monitor,
I’d reformat the drive and reinstall a fresh OS. 

I'm going a bit mental.

I'm on my third cable now. This final one is specifically a bi-directional DVI to HDMI, but still no video out. It chimes, the fans start up, everything seems normal, except no video.

I took a picture of the boards while running and noticed a red LED, but I'm not sure if this is normal or not? My next stop is a new graphics card, which I don't really want to do as this is a practically a zero budget build.

Can anyone help?
Cheers