Hi all!
I'm currently running a late-2009 Mac Pro with 16gig Ram and a standard 512Mb graphics card and Vue is running out of resources and getting immensely slow at rendering.
Do I need more RAM or a different graphics card?
I've looked up the affordable replacements and the Geforce GT680 looks favourite! Any comments?
Stefan
OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Vue is running out of resources
¿How did you decide that?
¿Are you getting error messages? what messages?
Vue is quite good at warning you and even has a mode where it only populates what's seen not the whole terrain so yes, got several of them.
Then the whole system slowed down to a crawl.
I've tried swapping from OpenGL hardware 2.1 to software and still it collapses.
I'm currently trying to modify a simple scenewithout success.
Correction on system: It's an early 2008.
Stefan
So are there system hardware requirements and recommendations for Vue?
2-3GB VRAM could help? 512MB and 2008 = ? 8800GT or 4870 or....
The minimal gpu would be Apple 5770 $249.
8 DIMMs so you populate all the Risers with 8 x 2GB ($100 today)
Put the system on a SSD - 500GB $300 (US) or half that for 250GB Samsung 840
Activity Monitor: pageouts? startup disk is less than 50% free (and how old and model?)
You do not benefit from 'modern' GPU in 2008 as would same card in 2010/2012 (2009 does better also just there were tweaks and improvements in PCIe 2.x in later).
How about going back - you did keep a clone of Mountain Lion, so can you dual boot? and did you see issues with 10.8.5 so we can rule out 10.9.1 (it is afterall still in its baby steps infancy in the scheme of OS which mature only to be killed off too soon). \
Generally there are minimum requirements but to be sure I'll take a good look and collect my thoughts.
There's a lot here for me to think about so I'll colllect them all together and revert.
May be a day or so, so thanks for this and Happy New Year guys!
Stefan
Any stock graphics card that shipped in the 2008 model should be replaced with a more modern one:
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RE: Mac Pro Replacement Graphics cards
1) Apple brand cards,
2) "sold in the Apple store" cards, and
3) "Mac Edition" cards ...
... show all the screens, including Boot up screens, Safe Mode, Installer, Recovery, debug screens, and Alt/Option boot screens. At this writing, these choices include:
1) Apple brand cards:
• Apple-firmware 5770, about US$250** works near full speed in every model Mac Pro, Drivers in 10.6.5
• Apple-firmware 5870, about US$450
2) "sold in the Apple store" cards
• NVIDIA Quadro 4000, about US$1200
• NVIDIA Quadro 5000, about US$2500
3) "Mac Edition" cards -- REQUIRE 10.8.3 or later:
• SAPPHIRE HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 MAC Edition, about US$480** Vendor recommends Mac Pro 4,1
• EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition, about US$600
The cards above require no more than the provided two 6-pin aux power connectors provided in the Mac Pro through 2012 model. Aux cables may not be provided for third-party cards, but are readily available.
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If you are Meet ALL of these:
• running 10.8.3 or later AND
• don't care about "no boot screens" etc AND
• can re-wire or otherwise "work out" the power cabling, THEN:
You can use many more cards, even most "PC-only cards"
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Even ore to think about!
Minimum requirements for Vue is Mac Pro, 4gig, OSX 10-6 but.......it now says GE 8800GT is only Windows as new shader engine is not supported, but that shouldn't affect my operations as I can see it operating until complex memory is required.
Just a thought, do small memory resident progs like iCloud, DropBox and Creative Cloud effect programs like they used too?
Thanks again
Stefan
Thing about minimum requirements, they tend to equate to "runs like molasses and unacceptable for most"
Often double or triple minimums.
You do have the 8800GT, which is 2007 era and known to fail. There was a GTX 285 back then with a lot of promise and CUDA support but drivers were an issue - the GTX 680 Mac Edition from EVGA is nice but almost $600 (has it gone down in price?) Still Nvidia drivers vs AMD has been in Nvidia's favor.
More food for thought:
May 10th, 2013 -- Do the newest GPUs run faster on the 2010 Mac Prothan on the 2009 and 2008 Mac Pro?
April 26th, 2013 -- PART THREE: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Editionversus the 'Sharks' (insane GPUs like the GeForce GTX 580 Classified and GTX 690)
April 18th, 2013 -- PART TWO: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 "Mac Edition"Versus Past and Present Mac GPUs running Pro Apps
Cool, lots to think about and start to budget?
Perhaps I should think aobut getting a newer machine all round?
Thanks again,
S
The "new" 2013 you are looking at $3500 plus any external storage that now resides internally.
Or "new" to you but 2009 $900 ish, or 2010/2012 ($2100 from Apple Store Specials).
Hard call but being able to save for new purchase and make some improvements that you can reuse. Maybe sit out the "1.0" of the Mac Pro 6,1 / Late 2013 and grab the 2nd edition in a year or two.
The DIY means you can gradually invest and upgrade at a slower pace, say if you did everything I mentioned, $300 or so per month (SSD, GPU, hard drives) over the next six months.
Vue Infinite 2014 runs out of resources
