Just installed Vue on my iMac and I'm astonished at the slowness of the program! It takes me back to when I was using Bryce 3 on a 68k Mac! What is all this about speed I read in the press releases? Also sometimes the dialog windows just freeze. You can click away but nothing happens. Anyone else having problems on a Mac?

Well, I'm not going to try to defend it anymore, I don't think. I personally believe that the Mac version ws released to soon, but all I have to go by would be a scant few comments from only 2 or 3 Mac users so far. The Windows version is actually quite fast, and I would expect the Mac version should be too, but I've never used a Mac, and would have no idea what could be the problem there. As for the crashes, maybe disable the OpenGL "feature" and see if that helps. If you're already not using OpenGL, then I don't know what to say except maybe close down all other background programs you might have running, especially any anti-virus software that maybe be background scanning. On a slightly positive note, I have no doubts that E-on will create patches to solve all the problems, or at least most of them. I'm sure they will at least try, but they seem to have had more difficulty with the Mac OS than with the Windows OS. I just really think the Mac version shouldn't have been released yet. They won a "Best of Show" at the MacWorld Expo earlier this month in San Francisco, and evidently they demonstrated it live in their booth, so however that managed to work, I don't know. Just like with the Windows versions, there are apparently problems that they themselves were not having, but other people do. I just don't understand it....... I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you might just want to plan on it being a while before you can actually use the program efficiently and enjoyably. :(

the live demo at the show was actually pretty fast, including the render of the animation. It never goes that fast on MY computer, but then I'm still running on a 400MHz processor.

I have a G4/450 with 1.5g ram. I have notice it being slow also. I get alot of the spinning cursor/colorwheel when ever I try to do something. It renders fast when I can get to that stage but usually I have to deal with several annoying crashes. I wouldn't have bought it if I had know that there wasn't the real integration with Poser like there is on the PC version. I am trying to think positive but after dealing with customer service I am getting nervous. oh well....

Turn down the quality for the background draw thread and the foreground thread. That seems to help get rid of the wait cursor. Though I think the wait cursor is "back again" in the 4.05 beta - in the material editors and such. I have an iBook G3 500 with 640MB. - n8

bear99: the direct Poser import feature partially relies on Poser to handle the import. In order to import PZ3 files directly on Mac OS X, you need an OS X version of Poser to be installed on your computer. Unfortunately, that is not yet available. The feature will be enabled as soon as Poser for OS X appears.

Thank you for your understanding.
Steve.

Curios Labs said there will be no OS X version until the next major release (Poser 5), so I wouldn't hold your breath. I do agree though - this should be plainly stated on the web site - and afaik it is not. - n8

Howdy all, The demo machines were a speedy Titanium powerbook (not sure which one, but it was brand new) and a G3 500 mhz iMac. Vue has been on Windows for some time, so we've added in lots of tricks to optimize it for the platform. Vue 4 for Mac OS X does support Altivec for the terrain editor, so if you have a speedy G4 you are getting some extra acceleration there. You'll see speed improve quite a bit on Mac OS X as we apply more platform tricks -- as well as more improvements are made for OpenGL by Apple (10.1 was a vast improvement over 10.0 -- we expect more to come in the next major update to OS X). n8, Im going to follow up about mentioning the Poser integration issue and Mac OS X to the home team. Vue 4 is tanned and ready, but we need Poser for Mac OS X. In fact, we need Poser 4 or better on Windows as well, installed, for it to function correctly. We are in the position of saying to CL "We are ready. Are you guys ready?". We have an answer now. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks e-on software US Business Unit

Actually it says on the e-on web site, but it didn't say this when I orginally ordered: *Requires Curious Labs Poser4. Coming soon for OS X. Sounds like you're implying Poser 4/5 for OS X is coming soon? (You don't have to answer that because you probably shouldn't:). Personally, I'm waiting for P5 OS X before I upgrade from Poser 3. -n8