Optimize a Mac Pro to run Smoke 2015?

[adamt]

Are there any recommended ways to optimize my Mac Pro  

(late 2013, 2.7ghz 12 core Xeon X5, 64gb dual AMD Firepro D700, osx10.9.4)

so that it will run Smoke 2015 ext1 correctly?

I couldnt find anything, but im sure there must be some caveats that need to be addressed.

Its getting really annoying to have such a powerful mac completely lock up when doing seemingly simple tasks (such as moving one direction along an axis (using Axis in Action) on a clip with one MK and three shapes within a single Gmask.

I can't even use the Servie Monitor to quit these crashes as it locks everything!

increasingly desperate to resolve this 

Adam

[davidtindale · Accepted solution]

Turn off hardware antialiasing in CFX prefs, and make sure it's off in existing setups. That particular crash issue is entirely avoided by doing this.

[adamt]

thank you, david.

Fingers crossed it works - i just found 4xHWAA switched on in the offending cfx, so now its off.

adam

[jamesgrean]

10.10 Yosemite is rock solid and fast.

Moved to a new Mac which has 10.10.1, and and annoying bug comes up:
Control+left/right arrow keys no longer jumps to the beginning/end of the timeline or batch range. It's actually pretty annoying.

Hope this will be addressed in SP3.

So for now, move from 10.9 to 10.10, but not 10.10.1 if you manage to get a 10.10 installer without the .1 update.

[jaseo]

Are they the shorcut keys that show up in the the shortcut editor? Have you had issues with other shortcuts? If so, maybe you need to disable some yosemite keyboard shortcuts that might be conflicting.

cheers

Jason

[adamt]

i've read too many horror stories about upgrades to Yosemite screwing up other applications that im not even considering doing that!

[jamesgrean]

Adam, what other apps are you running? So far everything works on 10.10.1, including Arri tools, Red tools, Adobe, Smoke, etc.
The only exception I've come across is Nuke, which has issues with Thunderbolt, but AFAIK that's an issue not specific to Yosemite.
Everything I have runs smooth and fast!

[adamt]

Once the current project is finished and out the door i'll probably look at upgrade to Yosemite. Certainly not going to risk it with a tight deadline looming!

[svenbox2]

I'm using Yosemite with 2015 SP2. All seems to work except for the backburner monitor page. Backburner still works so I'm not too bothered.

Sven

[jamesgrean]

There's a fix for the backburner thing on Yosemite somewhere on these forums I believe... can't find the link to it right now, but it's here I'm sure.