5.5.5 will not run on Apple M1

Rhino Rhino for Mac
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This is not a complaint or a request for help, just and FYI in case anyone wonders if 5.5.5 will run on the new Apple M1 chips.

5.5.5 also is unstable under Big Sur on Apple Intel (2015 MacBook Pro).

Sooooo… might be time (for me) to upgrade.

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Upgrading won’t help at this time. We are still working on this.

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I was thinking of upgrading and just keeping it on my old Intel MacBook Pro until it (hopefully) is updated to run on my new Mac Mini M1.

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Try the 90 day eval https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-mac/evaluation of Rhino 7 on your Intel Mac for now.

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So it sounds like the mini with the M1 chip will work with 5.5.5 Has anyone tried it? My big files are moving slow on my Macbook pro with 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7. Will the new mini speed things up?

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no it won’t work.

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I’m using it on my MacBook Pro 14" with M1 Pro CPU on MacOS 12.2.1 Monterey under Rosetta 2 and, at the moment, it’s working fine.
I’ve experienced a crash while trying to access preferences but, at the end of the day, I can work just fine with the standard setup.
I’ve read that there are some known issues with Monterey and i was wondering if there’s a list of those issues.
Since I’m planning to upgrade when there will be an official stable version (not preview) of the software for M1 chips and, until then, a list of known issues can be useful to avoid (when possible) tose problematic situations.

Thank you in advance for an eventual reply

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v7 is running on m1 now-

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For an “official stable version” I mean a Native version for mac M1.
And as far as I know, this will be a part of Rhino 8.
I was looking for a known issues list for Rhino 5.5.5 while waiting for the native V8 to be officially released.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Hi Marco -

There is no such thing.
-wim

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I’ve been using 5.1 on my M1 mac up until i updated yesterday, now it crashes over and over. tried downloading 5.5.5, still crashes constantly. does anyone know if there is a way to get 5.5.5 to run on an m1 mac?

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V5 will not run on a Silicon Mac.
Here’s a link to the V5 System Requirements:

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thanks, John. It was running just fine a week ago- who knows. Is my only option to upgrade to 7?

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Or maybe wait until V8 is released later this year.

V7 on a Silicon Mac relies on Apple’s Rosetta software translation layer. It works, but not particularly well or fast.

V8 will be a native binary Silicon/Metal application and should work quite well.

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