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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Dwight]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Dwight]

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

You must be driving fewer pixels now...

[Eduardo Rolon]

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

[__archiben]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[stefan]

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