I Bootcamp my Mac in order to run TD (well, and to play Games…) and I have no problems with Win7… been really stable, I actually get 5-8 fps better performance on the same Graphics card when I run Processing or Open Frameworks sketches, because of better Graphics Drivers… don’t get me wrong, I love the Mac OS, and most PC’s are fucking ugly, but I’m happy with having the ability to have two choices (well, three, I have a Linux install as well…)
(disclaimer: written from a mac)
(Also, pretty sure there’s an IBM Thinkpad in that picture as well…)
I don’t really have any problems with Mac, but that picture is almost disturbing! If I was in that class I would buy a pc just so I wouldn’t be another brick in that wall.
I’ve had no luck trying to run TD on bootcamped OSX.
I have a monster machine-
2.26ghz 6 core Xeon
24GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit Boot disc
ATI Radeon HD 5770
I’ve installed and tried running both the official build 16900 and experimental build 17400 for FTE 007. Every time I try to launch the application, I get a “Touch Designer Stopped Working” error before anything opens.
I realize the graphics card is the root of TD. I have updated the driver from the ATI site as well as used windows to run it’s own updates. I’ve tried both driver options on both TD builds.
Can anyone offer me any kind of direction? I’d love to dive into TD asap. Thanks.
My vote is that the community stops making OSX requests from Derivative, porting such an app tuned for realtime performance will distract our benefactors from working on new features and mire them in fixing what does/doesn’t work on whichever OS. Anyone who is serious about using Touch in production has isolated, separate systems built and tuned for that singular purpose. They are then free to have an apple system for their music apps that don’t work on windows (if there are any left that do not-)
It is no secret that apple moves away from less profitable content creators, and the fact that the systems are generation behind is the proof in the pudding. If you need proof that FCP will not become some uber app, look at how much they improved Shake. I am very surprised that Smoke is mac only, and surely that will not last much longer.
The OS was great once, but I have more issues with the 10 macs that we have in the office than the other 50 PC’s combined.
I’ll stop my rant now, thank you for listening.
MD
For me, the places where Windows still lags behind (well, unless win8 has some magic thing for me) are getting video and audio between programs. Siphon is becoming a standard for video between applications and uses GPU shared memory, I think. Macs have a native audio pipe between applications but I gather that most people use Jack, rewire etc. because they are a bit faster.
It would be cool if there was a standard way to move video between programs. I’m so jealous of Siphon on the mac. which seems to just work.
maybe Derivative could promote their TouchIN/OUT code as a provisional standard for others to pick up and use in their software?
I used syphon a few times before moving over to W7 and it definitely is something to be jealous of. It’s awesome, works easily, and the hit on the machine isn’t the worst thing ever. I read somewhere that we may be close with some DirectX stuff, but I didn’t look further into it.
The recent iOS6 maps debacle confirms the move to W7. I’m also having a love affair with MS One Note and Outlook!
yes OneNote was definitely my favourite when I used a tablet PC a lot. A feature in an early version (2003) that I loved was being able to run a pen down a row of tabs and it would be like flicking thorugh a book - especially good for searching thorugh sketches and drawings. now it just tries to move the tab to where you ‘drag’ it much less fun.
The new mac pro- does anybody remember The Cube? Form should follow function . I’m going to guess that beeffy gpu cards wont fit. And it will be expensive, awkward to ‘deploy’, and the promise of upgradeability will be the usual box canyon. I’m more interested in Linux support.
Yeah, the Mac Pro is not designed to be upgradable, that’s where they are going with their computers, laptops, phones, everything designs. Too bad its AMD in my opinion.
However, the form does look like it was designed around the function of a) smallest size possible, b) most efficient cooling possible and still quiet.
What is interesting is that you can fit about 3 of these inside a typical PC workstation case. Think about that for a second, you could make one crazy travelling road-case with them!