Ольга Руднева

Hello everybody!

I'm brand new to Houdini and just installed the non-commercial Houdini Apprentice 15.5.560 on my mac. On the first sight it seemed to work properly (I was also told my mac actually fulfils the system requirements), but I've got a bunch of issues that don't allow me to work properly.
From time to time the nodes just disappear (with the mesh still there)from both network and tree views. Sometimes I can not see the copy of the object. In both cases restarting the program is the only thing that helps. Once it crushed with this not-enough-ram error popping up, which is more than strange because I've only got Houdini and Finder running(which should be ok with 8gb RAM i guess). Some other time I wasn't able to play the animation with the real time speed (which is actually the least of the problems…)and so on.

I didn't expect it to have a great performance on my mac, but I'm surprised that it behaves this way. I wasn't doing some complicated stuff and I also never had such problems with other software (Maya, all of the Adobe CS programs, Toon Boom Harmony etc.). Is there any hope to fix it?

I've got:
macOS Sierra 10.12.1
2,4 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris 1536 MB

Would be very thankful for any help/advices/information!