I have Vue 9 running the latest EEF update on both Windows 7 64 bit and Mac Snow Leopard.

What I can tell you is Vue 9.x on Windows 7 64bit is very good and a LOT better than 7.x or 8.x versions. If you followed any of my LONG discussion threads here or at e-on on their Matainence forum then you know about all the problems I had with Poser imports. It was so bad that e-on assigned me a tech to work with and I uncovered and documented over 4 known bugs at the time ranging from Poser Shader Tree issues to OOM (Out of Memory) errors at random times. There was nothing that could be done according to Neil at e-on because it was the Smith Micro package causing the problems. He confimed all my reported issues going all the way back to Vue 7.x and reported them to Smith Micro. Now, if you use the latest Smith Micro SDK in Vue 9.x, things appear to be much improved and most of the bugs I reported have not shown up for me from what I have tested it with. There is still a known scaling issue to deal with though and I am working on a couple of others with them.

The other improvements seem to be good too with the terrain editor, handling of clounds, etc. which slowed down before. So basically, I would agree that the Win 7 64bit version is better than before so long as they keep the Smith Micro SDK updated and work with them on the problems.

For the Mac under Snow Leopard, as has been said above, there are a few issues you run into since not everything is 64bit on the Mac side such as the wxpython script and some other minor issues. Overall though, it has been a LOT better than any of the prior attempts at a 64bit Cocoa version and is really the first full 64bit Vue on the Mac. At least now, it is usable for me on the Mac Pro unlike any of the other versions. I am hoping they will give more support to it in the coming versions given how far they have come as of now.

So, both versions I think are indeed improved from 7.x and 8.x in terms of overall quality. But, I would still like to see e-on take at least one year and do nothing but bug fixes and improvements to it for a better program. I can live without any new features for a least that long and I know many I have talked to in production feel the same way.

Happy rendering

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.