FBernardo

apologies, indeed it has 4 cores my bad, don't know where i got that idea then... The HDD has around 100gb free space... I can give you a fair example of something that is happening constantly even on the simplest file with just like 6 walls and a roof, using the Flyover tool it works smoothly and fantastic, but if i use the CTRL + middle button in the mouse, it just goes crazy and kinda looks the gfx are crashing or something, I don't believe this is from the GPU drivers as if it were when i go and click the flyover icon would do the same crashing effect but it doesn't... Any ideas ?

the HDD is just used for the software, the working files are all in network drive, and there is (apparently and that i detected) any issues with the network and when the software is working the file is in cache on the machine ( i believe it's how it works in my logic as in the case the networks comes down the file doesn't get lost). But you mentioned only the HDD so i'm guessing the CPU is ok? we intend to start using a lot more of Renderworks which in my idea and knowledge would be quite a bit hard on it as it only has 2 cores...

I'm not a pro or even an expert user, still learning and will go into a training programme to learn more about it, but overall experience until now, i've seen the software being very unstable, and both my colleagues that use vectorworks for far longer and had already training in it, say it crashes a lot. I also might be doing some stuff the wrong way and make the software to crash which is more likely be the case. In these last months we've being submitting quite a few reports of crashes and things (like roofs) missing on the rendering but in Opengl they are visible and so on... In our case i don't know if we should or not improve by completely change the environment or just ask for a hardware improvement as the machines are mostly even, I5 6500 3.2ghz 16gb ram Gtx 1060 250gb HD (don't know if SSD or HDD) The only thing i believe we should probably to upgrade would be the CPU to an i7 7700k or Ryzen 7 1800x (with more cores) but will vectorworks take full advantage of this core increase? I also believe that it's already fully compatible with the Ryzen CPU's architecture correct?

Thanks a lot for your insight and input on this, as with access to numbers and %'s we can have a more detailed and to be fair we can make a more technical decision by having the numbers to back up, while i do know that in the IT world when something has to crash it will crash doesn't matter if it's windows or MacOS... and while it's fully understandable that if the software is working similarly in both systems just a matter of "preference" for one system against the other is just not good enough but in a working environment we need the productivity to be at it's peek and not constantly thinking of if it's going to crash and lose work (even though you have backup's set in place and a constant CTRL + S to save) we do end up always to lose work and have to do it again, that is why I'm trying to gather the more opinions on this subject so i can come to a point if there is a possibility with our IT Company to lend out hardware to do a full trial on how the software would run... A question is the licence the same for both systems?

Hi all, I have the GTX 1080ti and a Ryzen 5 1600x (no overclock) and while the 2017 vectorworks run's very fast indeed sometimes it stutters without understanding why, is there any incompatibility issues with AMD Ryzen processors ? I will try out the 2018 version as i haven't updated it yet. Is there any "demo" file to do some "benchmarking" on rendering and so on?

Indeed, that is why i was kinda trying to understand if there was a massive difference between both environments as to switch it would need to be strong and valid points... Although i'm quite curious on trying vectorworks on a mac, but sadly i don't know anyone with a mac i can loan to stress test it on. Again many thanks for your insight!

On this mark, can you elaborate a bit more please, because i'm trying to understand if it's worth the money change from PC to Mac (which is quite expensive) and i need quite a few strong points! many thanks for your reply!

Hi all, I was wondering in which environment the Vectorworks is more productive(stable) Mac or PC, i'm a PC user and besides the obvious differences in the hardware i always liked and questioned this since i started using vectorworks ( as i know it was first developed for mac system). The compatibility and possibility to use other software besides vectorworks in our office (the answer i got from my colleagues and the fact they don't like MacOS) i seem to find that all of my colleagues complain about the crashes when it we try to make some more "tricky" or complicated structures (if you can call it like that), i've been experiencing it myself with a lot of crashes that honestly do slow down our work. So my natural questions are: - Is Mac version more stable than PC? - Mac files are compatible with PC version? Note: all the issues have been reported to the vectorworks team and while some obviously are our fault on designing the complicated forms others apparently are bugs that we discovered. Many thanks to you all for your help and opinions.