Any Mac users?

Robert · Unread post by **Robert** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:29 pm

Is there anyone running TS on a Mac?

I'm looking at getting a Mac Pro and running Parallels which will allow me to run XP Professional and Mac OX simultaneously. I have to much software to switch to a PC.

Thanks

PK · Unread post by PK » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:04 pm

Hi Robert,

we have here several Apple iMac and MacBook Pro running with TopSolid.
It works great.
You just have to install Windows XP with Service Pack2 also on the machine by using Boot Camp for it.

Robert · Unread post by **Robert** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:04 am

PK,

What graphics card are you running on your iMac?

Thanks

PK · Unread post by PK » Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:24 am

Hi Robert,

On the iMac we have the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB.
I would not recommend to use the ATI graphics card. For our needs here it is good enough. There are some little things which donÂ´t look 100% good. Also I donÂ´t know how good for example the rendering works with the ATI.

In the MacBook Pro we have NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB. This one works great.

If you are looking on a iMac instead of Mac Pro, you can have a look on the iMac 24". This one has the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 512MB which should be fine.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB which is available in the Mac Pro is not really necessary I think.

Regards,

PK

jeff · Unread post by **jeff** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:52 pm

g-force is fine, quadro is no better for TopSolid,

Robert · Unread post by **Robert** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:59 am

Well...I've decided to wait to buy the MAC Pro, instead I have installed TS Wood on my iMac which works alright but TS will freeze on me maybe once an hour. Is there any settings on the ATI card that can be tweaked that may help with the freezing up or occasional crash?

Thanks

jeff · Unread post by **jeff** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:20 am

Robert, go to your tools-options-display settings and uncheck use direct X if it is checked, the rest of this is just trial and error, change a setting restart TopSolid and see what the behavior is. as you know ATI is almost always a problem. let me know if this helps.

Pieter · Unread post by **Pieter** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:25 pm

Hi,

Another thing you can do is to set the grafic settings of TopSolid to "basic (full compatibel)". Normally this should do the trick. Ofcourse you loose the power of the graphic card but at least it works (most of the time).

Regards

Pieter