wessexarch opened this issue on Sep 24, 2003 ยท 5 posts
wessexarch posted Wed, 24 September 2003 at 5:10 AM
Does anyone know if e-on will provide a patch for Vue Pro which will optimise it for the 64bit G5. Adobe have release a patch for Photoshop on the G5 - it'd be interesting to see what kind of perfomance increase it would give. I currently run Vue 4 on a PC, but am thinking of moving to Vue Pro on a G5 - wondering about the benefits (if any). Cheers, Tom
wabe posted Wed, 24 September 2003 at 5:32 AM
Haven't heard anything about that from e-on. I read in a german Mac newsletter that it looks like that it is already G5 optimized. I am not sure wether i can believe that or not. More a rumour than anything else.
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Thalaxis posted Wed, 24 September 2003 at 3:50 PM
The best information I've seen indicates that for general- purpose number-crunching, the G5 will be able to give an AthlonXP a run for its money. The next OSX iteration also won't really support 64-bit software, as the API's are going to be 32-bit, initially... though the performance difference between 32-bit and 64-bit software on a G5 will be at best minimal, and at worst negative (64-bit will most likely be slightly slower than 32-bit -- assuming both are optimized for the G5). As to whether or not VuePro is G5 optimized, it depends on whether or not E-on got access to a G5 early enough, nothing more.
ImagineThat posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 2:47 PM
I just received my copy of Vue Pro and according to the outside of the box it reads under "Increased Productivity" section "Multi-processor support, optimized for G5 and P4 HT." So I would say yes it does support G5's. I'll see if there's anything in the manual that states more.
wessexarch posted Mon, 29 September 2003 at 2:38 AM
Great! That sounds promising. It should be very nice indeed on the G5 with loads of RAM, in that case :-)