Problems with New Mac System!

[Anonymous]

Help! I have recently jumped from PC to Mac in hopes to better the computing performance and stability in my practice. I am however experiencing slower than usual performance with the conversion, My thought is the graphics card and using idisk to keep our files with a virtual copy on our hardrive. The system specs are as follows:

2 x 2.8 Quad Core-processor
8 GB 667 MHZ DDR memory
Radeon HD 2600/256 MB graphics card

does anyone have a suggestion for improvement or is it just hoopla!

Rodney

[Anonymous]

Rodney,

We need more information to help you...

All posts should include your Version and build number.

It is also helpful to include your OS...

although I'm assuming its OS 10.5 Leopard...

[Anonymous]

of course!
Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B02
SMC Version: 1.25f4OS: OS X Version 10.5.1

DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1:

Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x802C
Part Number: 0x3138484631323837324A4438304544364434
Serial Number: 0xE21295A4
ATI Radeon HD 2600:

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9588
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B1480A-236
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.236
Displays:
Cinema HD:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Display Connector:

Thanks.

Rodney

[Ted Taylor]

Rodney,

Are you saying that you are keeping files on your iDisk at .Mac and using an alias (Virtual Copy) stored on your hard disk to reference the file? If that is the case, then that may be a part of the slowness. Somebody that knows more about where Archicad saves files and writes the automatic backups may have a better idea of whether it is trying to write to the iDisk over the Internet or not. And if that is a good thing.

Also what version of Archicad are you using?

[Anonymous]

I am using Version 11 build 1114

Rodney

[Rick Thompson]

I have the same system and same graphic card (with less ram) and it is very responsive. iDisk sounds like a good candidate, but I have never fooled with that. Make sure you have the intel version installed, not the PPC (look under "get info). I had that happen and it was very slow until I figured that out, but I had moved onto this computer from a PPC version so that shouldn't have happen to you.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Like others, iDisk is a likely culprit.

But, I'm wondering why you have 667 mhz RAM? The new systems call for 800 mhz RAM - although barefeats found that the older RAM worked reasonably well, just a tad slower.

Karl

[Karl Ottenstein]

How that my more or less identical machine is sort of running, I can report that 11 runs very well on it. Trying to run 10 (PPC code running Rosetta emulation) is painfully slow though...but I only need to run it for client support.

Only difference with your machine is that my RAM is the 800 MHz speed, and 10 GB of it vs your 12 GB of 667 MHz.

Artlantis really flies with 8 cores. 😉

Have you narrowed down your problem, Rodney?

Karl