Blender won't launch on dual proc. mac OSX.

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Blender won’t launch on my mac. No errors or messages pop up.
Macine specs are - Dual 800mHz Power pC G4.
GE Force 2 MX video card 32mb vram
1.5 Gb SDram

OS- OSX vers. 10.3.9
Blender vers. 2.37 (tried 2.36 too)
I can’t find any topics here that seem to explain it and the vid card is supported.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jason.

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have you tried 16 bit [thousands of colors] color mode?

on a similar train of thought, what resolution are you running at?

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Look at the consol app for any error messages. You probably need to lower the resolution of Bleder’s startup. It can cause a problem when it’s too high on a 32mb video card. Are you set past 1280x1024?

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Thanks for your replies.
Screen res.- 1024x768
Colors- thousands
Vid card-tried 32mb but also 64 mb card(GEForce)

Console error message (thanks masterhoshi, I should have thought of this)

dyld: /Applications/blender-2.37a-OSX-10.3-powerpc/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender can’t open library: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Python (No such file or directory, errno = 2)

Presumably I need to download Python? Will look into this.

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Thanks for the replies, I cracked it. Installed (updated?) Python 2.3 and put the python.frameworks folder as it should be according to the console error message . Everything seems to be working now. Didn’t really know what I was doing so I hope everything runs OK.
Jake.

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you had something severly screwed in the system. Python 2.3 is part of all 10.3 Os X.