Leopard/nVidia 7300 issue on my mac pro?

My Mac Pro running Leopard and a Nvidia 7300 refuses to run pixel & vertex shaders in Halo. I'm not sure why... it just quits if you try to run it with those settings.

I'm having the same issues on a MacBook Air (2013), running Mac OSX 10.8.5, so it's not just a MacBook Pro issue. I went to the Apple store Genius Bar today, as I had tried everything I knew how to do with restarts,
PRAM reset, etc..and they're ordering a new logic board (I'm luckily still under AppleCare warranty)..
But this problem has surfaced on a number of Apple community and other Mac support forums..
You may need to take it in and see if it's your hardware :-(
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Thanks for the reply,
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Cheers
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