Houdini 14 and 15 (production and dailies) are completely unusable under OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. Crashes and lock ups galore when working through the quick start tutorials, doing basic things like dolling a large grid, and just about anything else.

I'm running it on an iMac 5k, Late 2014, 4GHz i7, 24GB Ram, AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB.

Having studied the forums I'm aware that my video card/OS combo is apparently not supported thanks to Apples buggy Open GL implementation which they appear to be reluctant to throw resources at to fix.

I've paid for Houdini Indie. I would now like to use a copy to get some work done.

So I've installed Houdini 13 Indie, yet on launch the startup splash appears and the splash and Houdini are not responsive to any clicks or keyboard shortcuts. It happens with the Houdini 13 license administrator as well. Though Houdini 13 FX will launch in non-commericial mode fine - I can click things and use it. Houdini Apprentice also is not responsive to any mouse clicks.

Running them from the Houdini terminal doesn't fix it.
The only way to regain control of computer is to CMD-OPT-ESC and close it. The crash logs produced are empty, ie: 0KB files.

Running from terminal, I do get the following warning:

hindie *** WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSView is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.
2015-10-26 18:27:38.264 hindie The selector passed to - must not take any arguments, and must return an id-sized value. This will only warn once. The first time, it was called with _visibleAndCanBecomeKey. (
0 AppKit 0x00007fff97e53d6d - + 143
1 libHoudiniUI.dylib 0x000000010fd6e512 _ZN18OSX_EventGenerator10initializeEv + 210
2 libHoudiniUI.dylib 0x000000010ffaa376 _ZN8UI_Queue16installGeneratorEP17UI_EventGenerator + 38
3 libHoudiniUI.dylib 0x000000010fd5b162 main + 1762
4 hindie 0x000000010ac55714 start + 52
5 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
)

So, any idea how I can get Houdini 13 Indie running without reverting to any other OS?

Thanks.

Do not use H13, that will not work on latest Apple OSX for sure. Not sure why you have H14 and H15 problems though. I would recommend dual boot with Linux, Ubuntu maybe and see what performances and stability you have there.

SreckoM
Do not use H13, that will not work on latest Apple OSX for sure. Not sure why you have H14 and H15 problems though. I would recommend dual boot with Linux, Ubuntu maybe and see what performances and stability you have there.

I appreciate the quick reply. Houdini 13 FX works fine in El Capitan (but I don't have a license for that one). Thus I don't see why H13 Indie can't work just as well.

All of production is OS X based - iOS 9 development - so I wanted to avoid having to boot into another OS just for Houdini work. But since I need Houdini as part of my workflow I will be doing just that as a last resort. H13 Indie will meet my needs if I can get the UI to respond :roll:

It is strange that FX works but Indie not. There are no such difference between these two that could trigger such behaviour… Ask SESI support.