Mac OS-X 10.8.3

[Paul Provost]

Cuda update available, mentioned on another forum

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[Jake Blackstone]

Is there specific reason why you rushed to do the OS and CUDA update before the official blessing from BM?

[Clark Bierbaum]

Jake,

Had the time and will be starting several long form projects in the near future, and with Time Machine, why not? Thought it might be useful information for some, nice to give back.

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[Jake Blackstone]

That’s what I thought:-)
Why do it, when all you have to do is to just wait a little for BM to bless the new OS and CUDA and all is good.
ESPECIALLY, if you’re going to do “several long form projects in the near future”. Have you done an exhaustive testing of Resolve under various operating conditions, with various codecs, with various deliverables, with various panels etc? Just leave the qualifying of the OS and other important bits to professionals.
You think you’re doing public good, but in reality, it is never a good idea to disregard manufacturers recommendations…

[Elliott Balsley]

I see a major reason to update to 10.8.3, and that is Radeon 7xxx support. Personally, I can hardly wait for BMD to approve this update, because I could put a single-slot 7750 in my Mac Pro as a GUI card, as it requires zero aux power connectors.

[Jake Blackstone]

Yes, you can take your chances or you could spend $40 on GT120 and use approved hardware instead. Is $40 worth the possibility of drama of crashing and burning? I guess, if you feel like living on the edge, don’t let me stop you…

[Paul Provost]

+1on the 7750
Be trying that out
Even BMD guys are saying the 120 is very long in the tooth

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[Jake Blackstone]

What exactly is wrong with GT120? Had been using it for over two years with no issues whatsoever. Should I worry?

[Juan Salvo]

Yeah, it’s become the bottleneck in many installs. It’s ancient, and slow. And there is now a bug with fcp7 and gt120 which causes constant dropped frames in OS 10.8+.

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[Elliott Balsley]

I’ve read of some tests where GT120 + a nice GPU is slower than just that same GPU alone (for Resolve performance).