Dock icons becoming unreadable
Good morning.
I installed Leopard on Friday. Everything went okay. However, when I play certain games (Avernum4 and Geneforge 4) my dock icons become all fuzzy. They all look like little green swirls sitting on a block. The only way to fix them is move them or reboot the computer. The game changes the resolution from my normal res to it's native one when it starts, and back to my res when finished. Never had a problem with the icons before the Leopard install. My hardware and software is all up-to-date. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks.
Received this link from the software company. Guess it's a Leopard issue. Hopefully they get an update out soon.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5653464
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i asked this once before and someone said i should just drag the icon off and start the program again and make sure to tell it to stay in the dock.
but this is a major pain and makes it seem like there is something wrong with the OS not to mention it is really annoying to have to constantly re-organized my desktop.
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TIA for any help.hi kappy. again a BIG THANK YOU for helping me on this.
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also, at the same time one simply has to look at all the Application folders on the mac and the various ways they are accessed or pointed to. when you say something like you just have to (manually) put the app file in the applications folder these things are all over the place.
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