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Cinerender Surfaces Problem

Vitruvius
Contributor

I'm running AC25 (3011) and have noticed a glitch with the Cineware Surfaces dialogue boxes. All of the preview images for Noise are black! The previous iteration of AC25 was fine. FYI, I have upgraded to Big Sur 11.6 which may be part of the problem.

 

Cinerender Surfaces - Noise preview.png

Cameron Hestler, Architect



AC 24 & 25 (3011) / MacMini i7-8700B @ 3.2 GHz / 32GB Ram / 512GB SSD

LG Ultrafine 4K monitor 22" & 27”

Mac OS 11.6 Big Sur
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

Try to also perform a graphics card driver update and see if that is any help.

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AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27

Isn't that part of the OS on the Mac? The graphics card is an Intel UHD 630 - but AFAIK the driver is part of the Mac OS.

Cameron Hestler, Architect



AC 24 & 25 (3011) / MacMini i7-8700B @ 3.2 GHz / 32GB Ram / 512GB SSD

LG Ultrafine 4K monitor 22" & 27”

Mac OS 11.6 Big Sur
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

You do not have a dedicated graphics card, like and Nvidia or AMD?

Graphisoft strongly advises against using Archicad on computers with only integrated graphics:

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Setup-License-articles/Recommended-Graphics-Cards-for-Archicad-2...



Recommended graphics cards for laptops
We have also good experiences with most of the dedicated Nvidia's GeForce cards, somewhat middling experience with AMD/ATI cards, and very bad experience with on-board (integrated) Intel graphics cards. Definitely avoid the latter at the moment. Although integrated graphics cards (iGPU)  are gradually improving in terms of performance, still perform quite badly for 3D demanding applications like Archicad.  At the moment, AMD's Ryzen processors with integrated Vega 10 & Vega 8 graphics processors perform significantly better than the rest of iGPU solutions and on par with Nvidia's low ended dedicated GPU line (MX series).

 

Loving Archicad since 1995 - Find Archicad Tips at x.com/laszlonagy
AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27