Is AC11 stable enought to upgrade from AC10?

[Anonymous]

Hi Folks,

For those of you who already use AC11 in a productive environment, where is the question...

Is AC11 stable enought to upgrade from AC10?

[Anonymous]

It seems like AC11 is stable enough not to crash, but only have a slow down issue. So... now its time to upgrade and make some recon in the field.

Thank you guys for the feedback!

[Rakela Raul]

never a crash, very stable to me....but disabilitating slow for my machine.

edit: forgot to mention = existing ac10 project to ac11 - not new..maybe this is the problem, migration.

[TomWaltz]

I thought it felt a lot slower, too.

[Richard Morrison]

I updated my video drivers (NVidia) last night, which were fairly recent (maybe two months old) to start with, but what a difference that made! I was getting weird flashes in OpenGL, and poor performance before, but now the display seems rock solid and AC11 really flies. Definitely worth a try.

[TomWaltz]

Richard wrote:
I updated my video drivers (NVidia) last night, which were fairly recent (maybe two months old) to start with, but what a difference that made! I was getting weird flashes in OpenGL, and poor performance before, but now the display seems rock solid and AC11 really flies. Definitely worth a try.

If they had Mac drivers, I'd try it!

[Richard Morrison]

TomWaltz wrote:

If they had Mac drivers, I'd try it!

Sure about this? ATI certainly has the most current Mac drivers available for download on their website. Don't other video card manufacturers?

EDIT: Sorry, just checked more carefully. ATI's date, in some cases, from 2005. My sympathies.

[Anonymous]

Loaded AC11 on my older machine (pentium 4 3.0ghz) and it performs at a decent speed in 2D (very similar to AC10). When I compare it to my newer dual core machine it runs from 3 to 5 times slower in 2D. Literally takes 5 second wait after panning for screen to refresh. I am beginning to think that the culprit is the dual core processor working in ArchiCAD.

Has anyone else had problems with their dual core processor machines?

[Anonymous]

g.h.design wrote:
Loaded AC11 on my older machine (pentium 4 3.0ghz) and it performs at a decent speed in 2D (very similar to AC10). When I compare it to my newer dual core machine it runs from 3 to 5 times slower in 2D. Literally takes 5 second wait after panning for screen to refresh. I am beginning to think that the culprit is the dual core processor working in ArchiCAD.

Has anyone else had problems with their dual core processor machines?

I'm having no such problems on my CoreDuo machine. I had some serious delays in the last beta/release candidate when I had a complex elevation referenced into the floor plan - but that is a different issue (and doesn't seem too much of a problem in the final release). What you describe sounds more like a display driver problem.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Rakela wrote:
never a crash, very stable to me....but disabilitating slow for my machine.

Just got my copy and it is running extremely slow on a project that works fine in AC10. Opening the drawing manager or resorting takes between 30 to 60 seconds where in 10 it takes about 2. Auto save is basically a go take "smoking break" situation. Editing one Detail settings (fonts, linetype etc) took me a half hour between waiting for the tool to update, Auto Saves and OS X's Beach Ball.

First impression of 11 not good.

[Thomas Holm]

I've had absolutely no speed problems on my macBookPro with AC11. But I haven't migrated any significant AC10 projects.
As always, I would guess that the recommendation is to not migrate projects that have already gone fairly well along in AC10. I would guess that the issues that people see are mainly library-related. With a migrated project, there are almost always library objects that follow along from the eralier version. There might be issues that surface when a new version wants different optimisations, that the old library simply doesn't have. For me, issues like this have surfaced many times with migrated projects, beside all the other library issues that follow if you both want to keep the objects you've already placed and take advantage of the increased options in the new version's own library. I bow to Djordje's wisdom in this matter - you might search the forum for his migration experience.