potamus opened this issue on Feb 22, 2010 · 8 posts
potamus posted Mon, 22 February 2010 at 2:48 PM
I am an owner of VUE4 pro on OSX. But I had a horrible experience. Crashed constantly, could not load materials from VueEsprit, so I never succeeded in finding one material on line. e-on would not help. I finally gave up after a couple of months using $500 software - with an unfavorable impression of e-on.
My money is gone, I see that now :(. Have things changed? Is the software stable? Can I load all materials made by any Vue product (Esprit, Win32, all?)
Thanks a lot!!!
nwm posted Mon, 22 February 2010 at 5:40 PM
I am very happy with Vue 8 Infinite on my Intel Mac.
I had alot of problems with Vue 4, Vue 5, and later.
Now I'm happy that I did'nt give up, although I was close to drop Vue, just like you.
There is imho currently no affordable alternative to such powerful features like Eco Systems and Solid Growth plants.
wabe posted Tue, 23 February 2010 at 12:43 AM
Well, Vue 4 Pro was made for approximately OS X 10.2 if not earlier. Now we have 10.6, a complete new operating system. I don't know what OS version you use, but if it is the actual version I think it is not a big surprise that there are problems.
However, my advice is that you download a PLE version of Vue 8 and try it out. But check carefully the display options of Vue (and start with low settings ideally), they wrong are the main reason for crashes.
One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.
3DNeo posted Tue, 23 February 2010 at 2:13 AM
I am running Vue 8i on my 2008 Mac Pro (see my signature) just fine. But you MUST have a very good computer to use it. Also, I would do as others suggest and download the free trial copy to see how it works on the system you will using it on. That way you will know before you buy, which is why they have that version.
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.
wabe posted Tue, 23 February 2010 at 2:17 AM
I do not agree on the "very good computer" fully. I, at home, run 8 Infinite on a Mac mini early generation. 2 GB Ram and a 32MB Intel graphic card. Works. Not the fastest but not more, even less, problems than on the Mac Pro in the office. It all depends on the driver quality of the graphic card, I repeat.
One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.
potamus posted Tue, 23 February 2010 at 5:36 AM
Hey that's really great! Thank A LOT!!! I'll prolly go for it, I love Bryce but the visuals in VUE rock! I'm on 10.6 with nVidia 9400 (MacBook) with 1920x1200 external. I don't see a lot of GPU talk, though there does appear to be stuff in Infinite re. multi-pass shaders. Now: Complete vs. Inifinte, that'll take some figurin' (Oh fwiw, the most pleasant surprise this year is Cheetah3d)
wabe posted Tue, 23 February 2010 at 5:58 AM
If you can make it, do Infinite. But again, test it on your system via PLE. To see whether you like it and how your system reacts to it.
One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.
potamus posted Tue, 23 February 2010 at 7:11 AM
Ok wabe, good idea. PLE Installed, hope I get in some miles next few weeks!! Thanks again