Running FCP 5.04 on Xserve G5

Has anyone been successful at running FCP on an xserve G5? And if so what graphics card did you use since FCP requires Quartz Extreme and an AGP card. Thank you.

Are you trashing all the prefs?
In the User Library you have a preferences folder. In that is a file called com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist
Then towards the bottom is a folder called Final Cut Pro User Data.
In there are three files:
Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs
Final Cut Pro Obj Cache
Final Cut Pro Prof Cache
Trash these as well and see what happens.
Don't delete the other folders in this folder though. (Custom Settings, Plugins, and Window Layouts)

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    Here is a my original post: followed by a response then my findings: any info would be greatly appreciated!
    FCP 6 Access to XSERVE???
    Posted: Dec 5, 2007 9:45 AM
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    Man I may be just blowing wind... but even if someone could point me in the right direction that would be a great, great help...
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    Re: FCP 6 Access to XSERVE???
    Posted: Dec 7, 2007 10:58 AM in response to: Camelot
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    Yay! Thank you for that info. I did get it to work with AFP, I am sharing two entire disks so I better change that... It is likely that a windows machine will never have to talk to the server so that is good... also you are correct about the Client/Server software on the two respective machines. Having 1.2 tB more for storage is great!
    But this further sparks a question of possibilities...
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    Yay! Thank you for that info. I did get it to work with AFP, I am sharing two entire disks so I better change that... It is likely that a windows machine will never have to talk to the server so that is good... also you are correct about the Client/Server software on the two respective machines. Having 1.2 tB more for storage is great!
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    Disk read data rate of 107.5 MB/s
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