Serious Magic Ovation on T41p 2373-geu

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acz · #1 Post by **acz** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:37 pm

In January I got a neat product called Ovation, from a company called Serious Magic. This tool takes an ordinary Power Point file and turns it into a jazzed up higher quality animated presentation. Anyway, I am certain that Ovation ran fine when I first installed it, and I used it for a couple of well-received presentations.

Now, Ovation aborts at startup with these messages:
Unsupported graphics adapter (ATI Mobility Fire GL T2), and
Outdated Graphics Device Driver (5/25/2005 version 6.14.0010.6546).

So, I checked the Lenovo device driver matrix for the T41p (mine is 2372-GEU) and it seems that the drivers are up-to-date. (Package version 8.133.2-050525a-024243c, and Driver 6.14.10.6546).
I thought the FireGL T2 with 128 mb of video RAM would be able to run almost anything.

The ATI website offers some drivers with other version numbers, but I am hesitant to install a driver that is not actually approved by IBM/Lenovo. I would be afraid to risk making my laptop unusable if the screen does not work with an unapproved driver.

I called Serious Magic and was told that they don’t support OpenGL. But the fellow there was quite mystified when I asserted that Ovation did work on this machine at one time. He said he believed that it is possible but that he could not account for it.

Is it possible that I somehow had adjusted some setting on this video card that allowed Ovation to work in January?
Is there a way to “turn off” OpenGL so that Ovation would think the video card is OK?
Does anyone have experience with a different driver that might solve my problem?

Thank you very much.

DesolataX · #2 Post by **DesolataX** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:59 pm

Try using a driver cleaner, then reinstalling the latest drivers and report back.

#3 Post by **Kyocera** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:25 pm

If you have windows "system restore" turned on why not try going back to a time when the program was working. Maybe you downloaded or changed something recently that has affected the program.

acz · #4 Post by **acz** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:52 pm

My ignorance is showing - what is a driver cleaner, and where would I get one?
Thanks.

acz · #5 Post by **acz** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:16 pm

Thanks Kyocera, that was a good suggestion but my oldest restore point did not go back in time far enough (January 2006).

I wonder if there is a way to make Ovation think that the card does not require OpenGL and in fact can handle whatever Ovation wants instead...?

Dead1nside · #6 Post by **Dead1nside** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:41 am

The FireGL will be able to use OpenGL and Direct X.

A driver cleaner makes sure all previous records of previous drivers are purged from the system, sometimes it causes confusion with programs.

You can install the latest ATi driver by using DHMod.

acz · #7 Post by **acz** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:44 pm

Update: I finally had time to return to this problem, and I thought I should wrap up the story in case anyone has a similar problem in the future.
Thanks to the advice given here I did three things.

Uninstalled ATI drivers in Add/Remove Programs
Ran the Driver Cleaner found here http://www.drivercleaner.net/
Reinstalled the latest official Lenovo driver from the driver matrix.

Then I downloaded and installed the latest patches for the Ovation product.

Voila, it seems to work fine now.
Thanks for all the comments.

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