Possible serious video glitch with games

Last night, I fired up the Quake 4 demo on my new 24-inch iMac. It worked properly the first time around, but when I quit after the second try the video was corrupted and I had to force the system to shut down.
When I restarted, it instantly went to a gray screen with no Apple logo and refused to advance further (I waited to be safe). Restarting again didn't help. It wasn't until I reset the PRAM (Command-Option-P-R for those who need to know) that it started up normally.
Now it could be just that Aspyr needs to update the demo, but my worry is that the Radeon HD 2600's video drivers may be undercooked in Mac OS X and could be prone to corrupting the image in certain circumstances. I'll have to try more games in the future to validate this.
Now if Apple could only do something about the glossy screen... it's vibrant, but it was already high-quality before! I'd have kept matte.

angealexiel wrote:
hi
before i cry, please guys, tell me its a driver problem, not a hardware problem, cos apple took my old imac for 5 month cos they couldnt repair it, and i just received this one two days ago for exchange . so i'm gonna be crazy if this one need repair too.. i never had so much trouble with a brand...
I know what you mean. I feel much the same way. And I really do hope it is merely a driver issue of some kind rather than a hardware problem. If it is hardware, then it is the 3rd new Mac I have bought in a row that has been faulty
I do however suspect that it is software/drivers. Simply because im yet to read a single report from anyone saying that UT2004 does not crash at some point on their new alu iMac.
As i have said in numerous other threads now, I'll hold out for 10.4.11 or some other update of some kind that will hopefully fix it. If it does not fix it, or the update is not forthcoming very soon, then of course I will be complaining to Apple.

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