Minimum system requirements?

[Christopher Tay]

Hi Rodrigo,

For the GPU cards, it either the NVIDIA GTX285 or NVIDIA Quadro FX4800. If you can’t find the GTX285 then your other option is only the FX4800. As to the ram, it will work 8GB but it will not be optimized and you may see some drop in performance. I was told at one stage that it may crash the application.

As for the ATI card, I’m not sure if anyone has actually tried running Resolve with the card present. I guess Resolve will just ignore the card and report that it is not supported but I’d be curious to see what happens to the viewer display if you connect the GUI monitor to the ATI card. Maybe it’ll just be black display.

And since you are running Hackintosh, this is another unchartered territory which may or may not work and alot of these are hit and run. If it works for you, great but if it doesn’t, then you know what happens next when you start asking why it doesn’t work 🙂

To be honest, if you are planning to setup the Resolve as a full time grading system with clients sitting next to you, go with the certified hardware specification. The last thing you need is the system crashing sporadically which makes you look bad in front of the client and then words spread around that Resolve is unstable and constantly crashing. That’s one area that will give a bad name to the product.

I have a Resolve Mac customer running for about a month or so now with the certified hardware and so far it’s been very well behaved.

-chrispy

[Rodrigo Silvestri]

[Christopher Tay] “For the GPU cards, it either the NVIDIA GTX285 or NVIDIA Quadro FX4800.”
I mean, have you actually tried any other card? Do you know if Resolve “ignores” other cards? Or is your statement just based on the “certified hardware” list?

[Christopher Tay] “To be honest, if you are planning to setup the Resolve as a full time grading system with clients sitting next to you, go with the certified hardware specification. The last thing you need is the system crashing sporadically which makes you look bad in front of the client and then words spread around that Resolve is unstable and constantly crashing. That’s one area that will give a bad name to the product.”
I think this is obvious, no need to clarify that. Neither Blackmagic nor me want my computer to crash in front of clients. If they wanted, they could make a script that doesn’t even install in “FX4800+GT120+SuperDrive+6or12or24GBofRAM+ACD+ACD+I/Ocard+RAID5setup” computers.
And I assume they understand what they are doing when selling their product at this price.
My plan is to start learning, but I’ll probably not work with it at home but at some studios I work with (which have certified hardware).

Rodrigo Silvestri.

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[Vladimir Kucherov]

OS X doesn’t recognize/work with any other NVidia card, so testing Resolve with them would have been impossible.

Things are different on a Hackintosh system. I think you’re on the forefront!

[Rodrigo Silvestri]

Oh, got it!

Thanks,
Rodrigo.

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[Christopher Tay]

I would assume that under Hackintosh you are still limited to what the Mac OSX supports, regardless of whether the PC motherboard itself supports those other NVIDIA graphics card like the GTX480.

-chrispy

[Rodrigo Silvestri]

No need to suppose anything, this can be easily found out with a simple Google search.
BTW I installed a GTX480 in a friend’s Hackintosh.

What I don’t know is about that new “Fermi” architecture, newer than the one of the 285. I don’t know if it’s just an internal “electronic” change or if it also changes the way the card interacts with the OS and software. In the latter case it would be logical to think of a “core” incompatibility with Resolve.

I’ll investigate and post results whenever I have them.

Thanks,
Rodrigo.

Just a little comment about Hackintoshes: The fact that most of them are not as stable compared to an original Mac is related to the way people configure and install the hardware and drivers. “Perfectly stable” Hackintoshes can be built, but it needs a deep level of understanding when installing it, and a lot of free time.

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[Sascha Haber]

Yep, the hackintosh is like Linux
“Its only free if your time is worth nothing ” 😉
But I cant wait to see some comparison of a true Mac with a Quadro 4800 against a good configured Hackingtosh with a 480 GTX.
I would assume its around three times as fast.

[Rodrigo Silvestri]

[Sascha Haber] “I would assume its around three times as fast.”

At least here in Argentina, it is also three times more expensive 😉

Rodrigo.

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[Jan Prochazka]

Hey, Rodrigo, have you succeed already on this?

I have MacPro, but it’s impossible to get GTX 285 for mac now. And I don’t want to buy $1200 Quadra 4000 just to try DaVinci on Mac…

So I’m thinking about hackintosh and GTX 470 (already have hw). I know it could run OSx86 with that card. But I’m wondering if it will run Resolve.