Graphics cards for Studio Pro 2

I installed Studio Pro 2 in my Power G4 and Final Cut2 won't open because of the Graphics card that is in my computer, which is, the GeForce4 Ti 4600.
What graphics card do I need? Do I have another option?

That's a very ticky question.
Look at the system requirements here:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs.html
Unless you have 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 (minimum requirement)
you may not be able to run some of the applications
no matter what video card you have.
You can look at this discussion on the
*ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac* for further help.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=849963&tstart=0

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