Installation & Licensing

[#1]

Important notice for Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software, and prior Maya version, users regarding the latest Apple® Mac OS® X operating system release, version 10.7 “Lion”.

Testing Maya 2012, and prior versions of Maya, on the Mac OS X 10.7 operating system, has identified platform compatibility issues.  

The issues:

• Installing Maya on Mac OS X 10.7 may cause the installer to hang.
• Operating Maya on Mac OS X 10.7 may cause stability issues.
• When submitting a crash report while operating Maya on Mac OS X 10.7, may cause the crash error reporting system to hang.

If you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7, you may encounter these issues. Autodesk recommends that users of Maya 2012, and prior releases of Maya, do not upgrade to the Mac OS X 10.7 until the compatibility issues have been addressed by Autodesk and Apple. Teams from both companies are working closely to resolve these issues and a notification will be issued once the issues have been addressed.

Note: As of this time, Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software has not been qualified to run on Mac OS X 10.7. Please consult the qualification charts for more information.

[#2]

I found upgradeding to Mental Ray 3.8.1 and 2011 HF 3 then saving my project immediately upon opening has allowed Maya 2011 to run fine on Lion.  

Prior to these steps it failed as described.  As soon as I upgraded Mental Ray, and HF3 as well as save on open it has worked fine for 2 days.

[#3]

Any update on this issue? I'm trying to install maya and it is failing at the end.

I'm on Mac OSX 10.7

[#4]

Sorry, no update on this yet.

Here is the link to Autodesk Maya Certified Hardware chart.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=14959955&linkID=9242259

[#5]

To work around this, I created a partition on one of my harddrives and installed my old OS 10.6 on that partition. Then I installed Maya 2012 on that harddrive, too. It works great. When the compatibility problem is solved, I'll remove the partition.

DJ

[#6]

Does anybody knows if Autodesk is working on an upgrade/patch for Lion?

[#7]

Can you let me know if Maya 2012 SP1 plays nicer with 10.7?

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=17847744&linkID=9242259

[#8]

I have been chatting with the QA/Development teams and the Product Manager.  We are at the mercy of Apple because the video drivers which affect Maya are built into the operating system which is a bit different in Windows.

We will have a unified message in Mayastation and Up and Ready when an udpate is available.

[#9]

David, 

I was just wondering if there are any more details on the patch / update to make Maya work with Lion??

Looking forward to your response..

Many Thanks

Dan Eccleston

[#10]

Hi,

I am a student, and I don't have any older version of OSX other than Lion due to the fact that my school just gave me a computer with this installation. Are there any older versions of Maya that are compatible with Lion so far? I attempted to install the 2010 version when I could not get the 2012 installer to complete, and it bombed out as well. I need Maya for a class next week. Any suggestions?