I've combed the message board but I can't find anything about this problem:

I have a G5 1.8MmHz Mac running 10.3.2 with an Nvida GeForce MX OEM card.

Whenever I try and run Vendetta I get as far as as the first screen past the login screen, but when I click "play" the screen goes black, I get a few lines of text from the chat at the top of the screen and everything freezes up. I end up having to do a hard-reboot to get out of it.

Anyone have any advice?

Turn off shaders. Pull down the console with the tilde key (`) and type in "doshaders=0". I think that's what it is. If that doesn't work type "set doshaders=0". Hopefully that'll turn shaders off. Unfortunately it's on by default and it can kill FPS severely or cause the game to not run on systems with a not-so-powerful graphics card in 'em. A note to Guild, please turn off shaders by default on the Mac side. I got a feeling some new Mac users may have quit due to the shaders problem and OpenGL, thinking that the game may be broke or something.

Actually you have to edit a text file to turn shaders off.
Inside your Vendetta.app bundle there is a file called config.ini. Open it wil SimpleText or some other text editor and look for doshaders=1 and change it to 0.

Yeah I figured. But since he can at least get the chat text to show up I assumed he could get his console down too. If that's not possible do what raybondo said. You can access the Vendetta files by right clicking the Vendetta icon and selecting "view package contents" in the contextual menu that comes up.

No, I mean you can't turn off shaders from the console of Vendetta at all. There is no command that exists to do that particular thing.

Changing the doshaders setting in the config.ini file did the trick. Thanks!

I had the same problem on my G5 1.8ghz and the advice to go into that config file with a text editor to change the "doshaders" to "0" worked for me as well. Thanks!

We just got a loaner G5 from Apple. I will check this out.