SatoriGFX

atracksler
I love Houdini, espeically now that the tutorialfiles are online (thanks)

Has anyone tried installing it on a Mac with Virtual PC??

Thanks, adam

A) VirtualPC does not support OpenGL or any form of 3d acceleration for that matter.

B) Even if it did, how good would Houdini run under VirtualPC's emulated graphics card (I think it emulates an S3 Virge or similar).

C) VirtualPC, VMWare and every other similar product are slow. Really slow. They are made for running business apps (and even those run slow, at best). Running Houdini under it would probably be one of the most painfull experiences of your life.

For the price of VirtualPC ($129 by itself or over $200 with XP or Win2k) plus a bit, you can probably pick up a decent used P3 or Athlon with 512M and a Geforce2 which would run circles around VirtualPC performance-wise. And you would be keeping your sanity to boot.

SatoriGFX.

Excellent. Thanks for the quick response.

SatoriGFX.

Hi there,

I just picked up my Apprentice cd's today. I have installed using the default configuration other than choosing to install into a subfolder on my F: drive instead of the default directory on C:.

Anyhow, when I load certain sample files from the second cd I get an error dialog like the one below.



Has anyone experienced this problem? Any ideas as to what is causing it/what I can do to fix it?

I am running Windows XP Pro.

Thanks in advance.

SatoriGFX.