Houdini And Hackintosh, best GPU
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Hi Im an Ubuntu Houdini user, but I miss OSX a lot, for a lot of reasons that I dont pretend explain here. Im thinking to try, one more time a Hackintosh. I had a Not that good experience in houdini and Hackintosh, because when I had it, it crashes a lot, of course in ubuntu almost never happend. I would give another oportunity to hackintosh but whit a new gpu. So the question is, if I have to buy a new GPU, Im sinking to expend something like 600-700 euros (new or used, maybe a quadro), what do you recommend? Remmember that the key point is Hackintos and off course, houdini.
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I'm a Houdini hackintosh user and I find it to be considerably stable. What I would suggest is an AMD RX 5700 XT which will be supported officially in the upcoming Catalina 10.15.1 update which should be out any day now.
If you're having a lot of Houdini crashes in OSX, the first culprit is likely write permissions. I find that 9 out of 10 times an app in OSX crashes it's due to not having full permissions to write files such as caches.
If you're having a lot of Houdini crashes in OSX, the first culprit is likely write permissions. I find that 9 out of 10 times an app in OSX crashes it's due to not having full permissions to write files such as caches.
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Thank you both for the comments, very helpfull. In my Old hackintosh I had a gtx 970 and was painful how much it crashes, maybe was that, or maybe the permission, never check that. Some one near to me is offering a
Nvidia Quadro M6000 Pro, is a real opportunity, what do you think about that video card and hackintosh for houdini?
Thank you very much.
Nvidia Quadro M6000 Pro, is a real opportunity, what do you think about that video card and hackintosh for houdini?
Thank you very much.
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I agree with Goat, it's time to drop Nvidia if you're interested in using OSX. I was hoping that perhaps once Catalina released Nvidia would surprise everyone – they didn't. Next, the new Mac Pros are supposedly coming out in early November (weird…like at the same time as H18?), so there's another opportunity for Nvidia to surprise everyone – I doubt they will.
I think the RX 5700 XT or the RADEON VII is the way to go for anyone wanting to keep using OSX.
I think the RX 5700 XT or the RADEON VII is the way to go for anyone wanting to keep using OSX.
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For my Houdini tutorials and more visit:
https://www.youtube.com/c/RightBrainedTutorials [www.youtube.com]
For my Houdini tutorials and more visit:
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I think RADEON VII will be my choise.
Could also go a AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 - it's now officially supported for MacOS:
https://www.sidefx.com/Support/system-requirements/supported-graphics-cards/ [www.sidefx.com]
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