Nvidia 8800GT & Opengl .....

Hello everybody.
I have recently purchased a 8800GT for my Mac Pro (1st generation) and although this card is FULLY 2.1 opengl hardware enabled, i get an error message from After Effects CS3 that *i don't own an opengl compatible graphics card *
Even with Motion 3.0.x the rendering takes a long time to complete, but the most important , is, that i have tested the card with Cinebench R10, the card is 100% opengl hardware enabled (and i also have the ability to support the enhnanced sets of instructions (which i did not enable).
I have done some benchmarks under windows xp/vista, and in every case the card responds as i mentioned above. Finnaly i contacted the forums of Adobe,and they stated clearly that the solution of this problem lies on....Apple.
Can you please do something about that? I (we...because we are many...)need a workaround or even better a solution in order to get the problem resolved..
Otherwise we spent all this money to no purpose...
Is there a way to modify the EFI, so the opengl instruction be enabled?
Are you going to do something about that? I see the questions remain unanswered, and this is not good, because we can not use the card that we purchased to work with Motion and After Effects. Do something ASAP, it is very important to have a solution the soonest you can...
Message was edited by: panos_video

I'm having the same issue. All my reaearch seems to point to Apple as the responsible party. I hope this issue will be resolved soon and I'll be able to make full use of the $5000 machine I purchased. Maddening.

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    Last edited by crazySocket (2015-04-25 12:10:13)

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