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iMac 5k?

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mattjacksonvfx
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iMac 5k?

Hello. Was thinking about smoke on Mac.... And the new 5k iMac. Has anyone tried this? Wondered if the GUI will scale properly if the ability to view 1-1 pixel on larger images helps?

Matt 🙂
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I'll be able to let you know next week 😉

Message 3 of 9

Nice! Look forward to hearing about it.
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Ok, So I've now got Smoke 2015 desktop on the 5k imac. Apart from the buttons looking very pixelated now I didn't notice that much diffirence initially- until this morninig when i restored one of my old settups and now the thing is kernal panic-ing all over the place. The entire machine comes to a hault with graphics errors nearly everytime I click on a menu in Smoke. I know it's not certified yet, so can't complain...mind you after effects runs very nicely.

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Wow... Total meltdown. Did you solve this with a restart? Or is it now unusable? I guess the GUI hasn't had its icons made ready for 5k scaling. Im guessing you have another mac....Does the interface scale OK on retina? I wonder if they'll release a newer version with high rez menus etc. Thanks for reporting back tho. 🙂
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Yeah surprisingly the interface scales no problem on the 5k- like you say though the text isnt exactly 5k ready 😉

 

I did end up fixing my problem by unlinking everything in that sequence and re-linking it...it had come over from another machine so had potentially got it's knickers in a twist there. Everything has been fine this afternoon!

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myeffigy
in reply to: Ant_Brownmoore

Can you share the spec of your new imac 5k and when you get a chance, performance?

 

Are you using an external raid, or the flash ram?

 

BTW, my 5k has been ordered. Expecting it soon !!!

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mattjacksonvfx
in reply to: myeffigy

hey ant!

 

any chance i could come and check out your 5k? i may still be up for getting one, but wanted to have a look at yours

 

no probs if not.

 

cheers Matt

mattjacksonvfx.co.uk

Message 9 of 9

Hey Matt,

 

Sure thing, send me a private message and we'll sort something out.

 

-As a bit of an update after a full week working with the girl now I've come to realise the Graphics are casuing a major unstability in smoke. It will frequenctly lock the entire system, with the OS reproting a serious graphics error occured upon restart. Worth nothing that this is only happening whist using smoke- Matchbox plugins seem to be very unhappy on it, with the effects sliders sometimes having a delay of up to 3 seconds while changing values.

 

The Specs are as follows:

 

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)

3.5 GHz Intel Core i5

32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB

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