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Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:51:30 GMT

Hi,

We have been trying to get ArchCAD 9 (and Plotmaker) to run on our 2Ghz and 1.8Ghz Dual G5s 1Gb RAM for 3 days without success.

Launching ArchiCAD 9 give a bouncing dock icon, CPU useage goes to 100% in the activity monitor, fans speed up, no Archicad menu or windows show.

Sometimes, after about 10 seconds, the "ArchiCAD 9" listing in the activity monitor turns red and the word "(hung)" appears.

A force quit is required to return CPU and fan useage to normal.

Very consistant on the the Macs we have tried, both with 10.3.4 and 10.3.5

Usual tricks tried - permissions, new admin account, clear caches etc. ArchiCAD 8 and 7 run fine. No problems with other apps. Have sent bug report/logs to graphisoft via reseller.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Nick

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:12:20 GMT

Yes i have and both archicad and plotmaker V9 work just fine. no problems at all

donald mac donald

Mac G5 dual 2.0 ghz, 2 mb ram OX 10.3.5

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Dwight — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:10:13 GMT

Me, too. All good... since beta already.
Check your RAM.

fans at full blast.... RAM.
look for a little red lifght inside the machine. There is some kind of warning

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:29:49 GMT

AC9.0 works fine on both my macs.

I did have a problem with myDual 1.8 G5 when i tried to run 2 No CRT 22inch monitors on it. The screens would go off and the fans would start to blow, however this was not related to ArchiCAD use.I have since reverted to 1 CRT and 1 TFT screen and the probelm has gone.

One trick may be install while logged in as administrator, I know there can sometime be problems with addons if not installed by the administrator, just my two penniworth

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Dwight — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:37:42 GMT

Interesting - please compare the number of pixels and what color resolution you were using in each situation...

You must be driving fewer pixels now...

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:56:59 GMT

It's working though I had trouble updating the key.

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

__archiben — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:10:01 GMT

no problems since the beggining of the beta test.

it does sound like a hardware fault if you're not getting any on-screen interface yet it's still showing in the process list. especially if your fans have hit warp speed as you say . . .

~/archiben

Re: Bug solved!

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:41:05 GMT

Hi,

See here for bug report:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=4079

Remove the offending fonts, and ArchiCAD 9 runs fine.

Regards,

Nick

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:53:53 GMT

one thing i found today is DO NOT use "optimise drawing method for high performance display card".

In V8 if you checked this i just didn't help you. now in 9 if you check it you loose fills, you get weird screen issues happening. it is bad.

donald mac donald

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

stefan — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:16:06 GMT

Donald wrote:
one thing i found today is DO NOT use "optimise drawing method for high performance display card".

In V8 if you checked this i just didn't help you. now in 9 if you check it you loose fills, you get weird screen issues happening. it is bad.

donald mac donald

I'm not a Mac user, so I could be completely wrong, but this is very much dependent on the combination of Hardware & drivers...

Check the Graphics-card database in this own forum for some more info and do submit your experiences to the list to help improve it.
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/compatibility.php?&sid=0a972dc6019af7169ea4cb2aff96ca82

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

__archiben — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:31:15 GMT

stefan wrote:
I'm not a Mac user, so I could be completely wrong, but this is very much dependent on the combination of Hardware & drivers...

you are completely right - the graphics cards and drivers on all the mac machines vary quite considerably when using archiCAD.

there was a time (8.0v2 ish) when you needed the graphics card optimisation in order to actually get any work done efficiently. but the work GS has done since then to improve mac speed issues means that actually they are getting more speed out of the CPU than the graphics processors anyway. don't use it for 2D!

~/archiben

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:36:46 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Interesting - please compare the number of pixels and what color resolution you were using in each situation...

You must be driving fewer pixels now...

Dwight

Yeah the 17 inch flat screen is drawing 1152 x 864 pixels while the 2No 21 inch Apple CRTS were set at 1280 x 1024.

I assumed the TFT was drawing lesss power?! at least my problems are now solved.

mmmmm just wondering what driving 2 No 30 inch Apple displays would look like!

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:38:29 GMT

My experience with AC08 and 09 was that if you enable the opengl option you get a slowdown in OSX vs using the basic AC display engine. Text does not render correctly on 2D views and there is a delay on zoom and pan operations.

The video card is the standard ATI Radeon with 64mb that comes with all Powerbooks.

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Dwight — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:59:12 GMT

RE: 30" display.

Have just ordered ONE 30" display as a reult of a windfall assignment.

After making cardboard mockups of two displays, have decided that a pair of them are TOO BIG.

I fear ruining my neck muscles.

If sidebyeach, 58" wide! Bouncing doggyhead in back window syndrome - bad enough with 2/21" - 46" wide.

If overunder 44" high - you need a floating keyboard and look down at your knees to make this config work!

The plan now is to take one of the failing 21" displays and put it down on the side. This way I'll be able to write letters while watching a DVD.

They finally made one big enough!

Ooo, baby!

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:17:14 GMT

Dwight,

Just how big was your windfall?

Given you have sufficient readies and a chiropractor on 24hr call, I think you might be ready for this baby:

Exhibit A: The 92" Grand Canyon.

You were also asking about supercharged computers. These guys say that they make those too. I've heard a lot of bad things about the company, but their website sure is impressive: http://www.go-l.com

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Dwight — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:42:42 GMT

Don't think Mac can drive four displays but I have given up on "wide," due to eye glass variable focal length and bobbing doggy head issue.

Prefer 30" already ordered. Too late.

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:13:46 GMT

I installed ver. 9 on my G5 today, no problems - runs great.

BTW - Great upgrade! new program layout is better, quick rendering and zoom/pan is faster. OpenGL butter smooth.

Of course much of this new speed might be due to the switch from a Dell 2MHz Windows to the Dual 2MHz Mac.

Now it is time to migrate all my files, librarys and textures to the new platform of choice. And yes, I will keep looking for excuses to purchase a 30" display.

Never look back!

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 02:09:55 GMT

Best part about the new software is the greatly improved OpenGL. Allows simulated daylight, dawn or dusk.

Spinning this model around is quite dramatic.

Screenshot attached

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:45:49 GMT

Burginger wrote:

Of course much of this new speed might be due to the switch from a Dell 2MHz Windows to the Dual 2MHz Mac.

Now there's a switch from a year ago, when everyone agreed that AC on a mac was slower. Has the hardware caught up or is AC9 written better to use the mac hardware?

Re: Has anyone got ArchiCAD 9 to run on OSX 10.3.4/5?

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:42:43 GMT

Millard wrote:
Burginger wrote:

Of course much of this new speed might be due to the switch from a Dell 2MHz Windows to the Dual 2MHz Mac.
Now there's a switch from a year ago, when everyone agreed that AC on a mac was slower. Has the hardware caught up or is AC9 written better to use the mac hardware?

I think it's both.