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valerie Inshan

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Just wondering... mine is agonizing (over heating, super slow) Here are my current speficications:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500S CPU @ 2.70GHz (2700 MHz)
Memory: 4096 MB
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.2 Darwin 14.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6770M OpenGL Engine

OpenGL Version: 2.1 ATI-1.30.5

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.8
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.31
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Built with GCC version 40201
Packets Lost: 1681/8586 (19.6%)

Now, any adice on this baby?

21,5 pouces : 2,9 GHz

Caractéristiques

  • Processeur quadricœur Intel Core i5 cadencé à 2,9 GHz
  • Turbo Boost jusqu’à 3,6 GHz
  • 8 Go de mémoire (2 x 4 Go)
  • Disque dur de 1 To1
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M avec 1 Go de mémoire vidéo

(sorry the specs are in French... but anyway... advice anybody? )

Thanks in advance!

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Madelaine McMasters

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valerie Inshan wrote:

Just wondering... mine is agonizing (over heating, super slow) Here are my current speficications:

CPU: Intel® Core i5-2500S CPU @ 2.70GHz (2700 MHz)

Memory: 4096 MB

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.2 Darwin 14.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6770M OpenGL Engine

OpenGL Version: 2.1 ATI-1.30.5

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.8

J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0

Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.31

Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)

Voice Server Version: Not Connected

Built with GCC version 40201

Packets Lost: 1681/8586 (19.6%)

Now, any adice on this baby?

21,5 pouces :
2,9 GHz

Caractéristiques
  • Processeur quadricœur Intel Core i5 cadencé à 2,9 GHz
  • Turbo Boost jusqu’à 3,6 GHz
  • 8 Go de mémoire (2 x 4 Go)
  • Disque dur de 1 To1
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M avec 1 Go de mémoire vidéo

(sorry the specs are in French... but anyway... advice anybody? )

Thanks in advance!

Ouch Val, your packet loss may be the cause of your "super slow" complaint. Something's wrong there!

I'm not sure a new 21.5" iMac is going to be significantly faster than your old one. Your existing graphics card scores 1037 here...

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php

The GPU in a current generation iMac (750m) scores 1406. You do pick up an additional 512MB of video memory, so you'll probably see a bigger improvement than the benchmarks indicate. You don't get a significantly faster GPU until you go to the high end 27" machine.

Similarly, the i5 in your current iMac scores 3100/8200on the Geekbench test. The current i5 scores 3363/10000.

That's not a lot of progress in four years, and a new generation of iMacs should be coming now that Intel's newest generation of processors is finally shipping. If you can wait, I'd wait. And while I'm waiting, I'd try to figure out what's eating those packets.

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Jean Horten

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Jean Horten wrote:

Oh, wow, it even supports openGL 2.1 introduced in 2006.

J.

All iMacs produced since 2010 support OpenGL 4.1.

All iMacs produced since 2007 support OpenGL 3.3.

Are you confusing Apple's support of OpenGL on Macs with LL's use of OpenGL on Macs?

I am not confusing anything, I am referring to the specs the op gave in the initial post.

 

 

 

I am  including these here again, in case you forgot to scroll up to the first posting in this thread:

CPU: Intel® Core i5-2500S CPU @ 2.70GHz (2700 MHz)

Memory: 4096 MB

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.2 Darwin 14.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6770M OpenGL Engine

OpenGL Version: 2.1 ATI-1.30.5

 Must be a pre 2007 machine

J.

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Jean Horten wrote:

Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Jean Horten wrote:

Oh, wow, it even supports openGL 2.1 introduced in 2006.

J.

All iMacs produced since 2010 support OpenGL 4.1.

All iMacs produced since 2007 support OpenGL 3.3.

Are you confusing Apple's support of OpenGL on Macs with LL's use of OpenGL on Macs?

I am not confusing anything, I am referring to the specs the op gave in the initial post.

 

 

 

I am  including these here again, in case you forgot to scroll up to the first posting in this thread:

CPU: Intel® Core i5-2500S CPU @ 2.70GHz (2700 MHz)

Memory: 4096 MB

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.2 Darwin 14.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6770M OpenGL Engine

OpenGL Version: 2.1 ATI-1.30.5

 Must be a pre 2007 machine

J.

I don't think even the most dedicated Apple fanboy/girl would think that Apple had the ability to go three years into the future to build a computer with a processor that wasn't introduced until after 2010.

For whatever reason, the way SL viewers are built means that Macs report their OpenGL version as 2.1 regardless of the theoretical support of the hardware/OS.

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valerie Inshan

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Six Igaly wrote:

There is an other alternative as it comes to viewers. 'They' say this developer is Mac-orientated. I'm using it for a couple of months now and so far I'm satisfied (I like the graphics). It is on the 3rd party viewer list and you can find it here: 

Oooh! Thank you Six! I'll give it a try and post feedback here. :)

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valerie Inshan

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Six, I owe you Kudos! I've been playing with Alchemy for two hours or so and I am very pleasantly surprised. Nice UI (I especially love the toolbar buttons for windlights and statistics), the viewer runs smoothly in high settings (not so much if I enable shadows, but well.. I don't need them much other than for taking snapshots) and the graphics rendering is lovely. Not to mention quite a bunch of very nice windlights. 

Thank you very much for sharing this here! :)

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I'm glad to hear Valerie, I just think the Kudo's should go to the developer of this viewer :smileyvery-happy:

And to be honest, I can't recall where and when, I stumbled on to this viewer somewhere on the forums myself a while ago :smileylol:

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IndigoBlue Dagostino

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I've just ordered a new 27" imac BUT I'm worried.

 

I recently purchased a new graphics card for my old Mac Pro to help me get high res graphics and rendering in SL, but since installing the new AMD Radeon R9 270x 2048 MB I've been having problems In SL and on my mac, so may be sending it back.

 

I've noticed that my brand new Imac is coming with a AMD Radeon R9 M390 with 2GB video memory, so now I'm concerned that I might experience the same issues because it's also an AMD Radeon.

 

Can anyone advise?

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Pamela Galli

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I periodically must switch viewers for this reason. Firestorm broke for me after a couple of years so I switched to Imprudence until it caused problems, so I went back to Firestorm for a couple of years until it broke again, then I used Singularity for a couple of years until it broke, then I switched back to FS, which is fine so far. 

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