I am using Autodesk Maya 2013 and there seems to be an issue related to the grafic card! In order to solve that I need to update the driver for the grafic card
AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB. Is there anybody that know how to fix this issue. My mac mini is about 1 year old and I am running 10.7.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.5), AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB
The AMD Radeon HD 6630M GPU is neither a recommended or certified card for Maya 2013 on OS X Lion.
You don't.
Apple controls all the drivers for Macs and if they issue a update it will be in your Software Update.
So If I can't update the driver because that is controled by apple than simply what other options do I have! Can I just go and buy a new grafic card and have it installed by a professional! Or what other options do I have. I would just like to run Maya on my computer!
Another option is What does Maya recommend in order to run the program on a mac.
Better is to ask Can I update my mac computer to a grafic card that is certified by Autodesk.
I think this would solve the problem.
If you look closely at the link I provided, two factors standout among the listed graphic hardware support.
There is no way to upgrade the drivers or VRAM on your 6630 GPU.
While not a recommended or certified GPU, it does not mean the GPU cannot be used. I've used Maya on systems running non-recommended GPUs before, and it does work. The main issue I've seen is specific support for various transformations and calculations, that may prevent some real-time rendering, or otherwise take a while longer than expected to perform the calculation. Alternatively, some effects might not be available, but the program should still run and provide the other features that are supported on your hardware.
The program runs it is just one function that I am having difficulties with! I am hoping that maybe in the future the driver in the operating system will be updated and that might solve the problem.
This may be the case, but often its simply a hardware limitation that cannot be implemented. This is why AMD and Nvidia offer workstation cards (at a premium), because they do support these features (even if it's only a feature unlock in drivers).
how to update the driver for AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB
