axiom Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Is anyone able to suggest a fix for the slow running of macmini PowerPC's with Vectorworks 2008 inc SP1 installed? The whole programme seems to be hesitatant, especially when redrawing screen or scrolling around. Typically the affected macs are Macmini's with 1GB Ram 1.66Ghz and 667MHz flavour that worked fine with v12.5 Or have we just got to splash out on new intel macmini's ? Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 There's a point where the G4 processor and older Video just run out of steam. Nevertheless, there are ways to streamline the drive & OSX to prevent unnecessary addressing & paginations. And, of course, VRAM has a whole lot to say about the speed and precision of screen redraws. 1GB RAM was considered minimal for OS10.1 ! Quote Link to comment
altoids Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Your slowdown may be nothing more than VW requiring more memory to run and thus hitting virtual memory more frequently. Virtual memory swaps RAM out to disk and is primarily limited by disk seeks times and is many orders of magnitude slower than RAM access. RAM is currently cheap enough that you could theoretically try upgrade one of your Minis to 2GB and see if the problem is resolved, but the original Minis have a 1GB memory limit. You can see if memory is the problem by opening the Activity Monitor (in Utilities) and see how many VM pages are being swapped in and out, and compare this to VW12.5. Run this test shortly after a restart and launching VW (for both versions). BTW, I don't think 1GB was ever the minimum for 10.1. We run 10.4 with VW 12.5 on machines with 768MB without any problems. OS X 10.3 required 128MB to run, and we have file and web servers sitting in closets running on 384MB happily sending electrons all over the planet. BTW again, I think unless you are running a web or mail server, you are better off not upgrading your machines and putting the money towards a new box. You get a new fast warranted machine, and OS X 10.5 to boot. (The exception for a web server is because even the oldest machine is typically limited not by processor speed, but by bandwidth (internet connection speed). Quote Link to comment
jwlyon1 Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 What mac os are you running? Any problems with 2008 on a system not running Leopard? Quote Link to comment
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