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Apprentice won't install April 11, 2007, 6:28 p.m.
Well I don't mean to be too rude but I love this computer. Not so much how it looks, but how flawlessly it works, both in Xp and the rock stable OSX. I As I said I have not had a single problem in XP before this reinstall. I find it to be the ideal machine for 3D, not to mention software development and running a one man office where it severely outshines anything I have experienced on XP the last seventeen years. Boot camp Xp, in about every single case I have heard it will have normal XP problems, not Apple Xp problems.
Apprentice won't install April 11, 2007, 4:04 p.m.
“This would not be this best platform to be evaluating a 3D program on, unfortunately.”
This is plain wrong. I have been running lots of different OpenGL heavy 3D apps and games for almost a year on my machine without most any issue that doesn't also pertain to other ati (mobile) gpu's, mac or not. And frankly they have all been minor. I suspect you are talking about running 3D apps on the intel GMA accelerator, eg. on macbook or mac minis that doesn't have a proper graphics card, or your friend has problems with his installation, drivers or hardware. I have read dozens and dozens of reports on Xp performance and issues on the macbook pro, and crazy mac only OpenGL issues aint one of them – The only minor setback for a macbook pro versus equivalent PC hardware is that the graphics chip is clocked a bit low, something which can be adjusted with ati tool if you keep an eye on temperatures and perhaps adjust the fan higher with input remapper. And while it would be good to have this on a higher setting for 3D use , then for everything else it would obviously be a tradeoff towards battery capacity, heat and noise.
Installing XP proper on this machine have been simpler than on many other portables I have had to do it on, where the restore/ windows CD that comes with the machine includes programs that makes the machine not work properly and look ugly. For certain notebooks, the practical solution is to buy an extra XP license, since there is no option to get the system back to anything but the bloated state the manufacturer delivered in …
The single thing not currently working is good imaging backup of my XP partition (acronis), but there is little need for it and I also have a rather crude solution where I am able to use a mix of touch, file copy and a fresh reinstall to get XP back to its recent state if it goes to pooh. For OSX I have a perfect solution though that is even free and far better than anything available for XP.
My issue is due to a driver problem after a recent fresh install of a different version of XP, and it also affected another program that worked before the reinstall. I just didn't realize the license server would use OpenGL, but it even mentions an opengl related file in the error message and I will get this fixed soon enough.
This is plain wrong. I have been running lots of different OpenGL heavy 3D apps and games for almost a year on my machine without most any issue that doesn't also pertain to other ati (mobile) gpu's, mac or not. And frankly they have all been minor. I suspect you are talking about running 3D apps on the intel GMA accelerator, eg. on macbook or mac minis that doesn't have a proper graphics card, or your friend has problems with his installation, drivers or hardware. I have read dozens and dozens of reports on Xp performance and issues on the macbook pro, and crazy mac only OpenGL issues aint one of them – The only minor setback for a macbook pro versus equivalent PC hardware is that the graphics chip is clocked a bit low, something which can be adjusted with ati tool if you keep an eye on temperatures and perhaps adjust the fan higher with input remapper. And while it would be good to have this on a higher setting for 3D use , then for everything else it would obviously be a tradeoff towards battery capacity, heat and noise.
Installing XP proper on this machine have been simpler than on many other portables I have had to do it on, where the restore/ windows CD that comes with the machine includes programs that makes the machine not work properly and look ugly. For certain notebooks, the practical solution is to buy an extra XP license, since there is no option to get the system back to anything but the bloated state the manufacturer delivered in …
The single thing not currently working is good imaging backup of my XP partition (acronis), but there is little need for it and I also have a rather crude solution where I am able to use a mix of touch, file copy and a fresh reinstall to get XP back to its recent state if it goes to pooh. For OSX I have a perfect solution though that is even free and far better than anything available for XP.
My issue is due to a driver problem after a recent fresh install of a different version of XP, and it also affected another program that worked before the reinstall. I just didn't realize the license server would use OpenGL, but it even mentions an opengl related file in the error message and I will get this fixed soon enough.
Apprentice won't install April 11, 2007, 10:20 a.m.
OGL issue makes sense, I'll work on the drivers, thanks.
Its a full working booted XP under boot camp, not an emulated version. While there are improvements under way, generally emulations means issues with openGL hardware accelerated graphics. In a few years though you will likely be able to run the houdini pc version on OSX with insignificant slowdown, through crossover.
Its a full working booted XP under boot camp, not an emulated version. While there are improvements under way, generally emulations means issues with openGL hardware accelerated graphics. In a few years though you will likely be able to run the houdini pc version on OSX with insignificant slowdown, through crossover.