OXII
October 16, 2021, 1:31pm
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Hi McNeel,
I have a very simple question. I’ve asked this one before, but want to repeat it:
Will there be performance improvemnts in Rhino mac 8?
But it is still disappointing how slow and laggy Rhino mac handles curves, hatches, dimensions and blocks. Rhino 5 mac was a marvellous piece of software with an amazing performance even on 10 year old macs. I hope with Rhino 8 we can turn back to this chapter and be able to handle curves, hatches, dimensions and blocks in a fast and efficient way. Waiting for 5 seconds after every click is neither profitable nor sexy.
stevebaer
October 16, 2021, 2:57pm
2
You can run the TestMetal command in Rhino 8 today to compare speed. We are not at a point yet where metal is the default display technology, but it will eventually be default.
OXII
October 16, 2021, 3:19pm
3
Will that be the point where performance is improving significantly?
stevebaer
October 16, 2021, 3:29pm
4
Have you tried it? We’re already seeing orders of magnitude increases in performance.
Edit: layouts are barely working at this point. They aren’t worth testing
OXII
October 17, 2021, 8:00am
5
Shlould I be able to open a Rhino 7 file in Rhino 8 while it is still open in 7? This would be a good way to compare the performance.
stevebaer
October 17, 2021, 4:07pm
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You should be able to. If not, this would be a bug that we need to fix
nathanletwory
October 18, 2021, 4:18am
7
We allow starting two separate Rhinoceros processes on the Mac?
OXII
October 18, 2021, 1:19pm
8
Opening the same file with Rhino mac 8 wip which is already open in 7 finishes in two scenarios:
The file starts to open but won’t finish opening
The file opens but Rhino mac 8 is completely unresponsive and after a few seconds all the applications open on the mac close and you have to restart them
Rhino mac 8 doesn’t seem to work properly on my macbook pro…
Rhino 7 SystemInfo
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Apple Intel 64-bit macOS Version 11.6 (Build 20G165) (Physical RAM: 16Gb)
AMD Radeon Pro 450 OpenGL Engine (OpenGL ver:4.1 ATI-4.6.20)
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Anti-alias mode: 4x
Vendor Name: ATI Technologies Inc.
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stevebaer
October 18, 2021, 2:11pm
10
Can you start Rhino 8 with an empty file?
OXII
October 18, 2021, 2:50pm
11
Yes.
It is fast at the beginning, if you zoom and daw. But if you select and try to do some commands, it becomes irresponsive and laggy for 30 seconds. Even with just a few curves…
stevebaer
October 18, 2021, 3:14pm
12
Does the same thing happen if you have metal disabled?
Please try disabling maxwell and restart Rhino 8 to see if that makes a difference. I would like to eliminate this as a possible cause.
OXII
October 19, 2021, 12:56pm
13
There seem to be two problems with 8 mac wip :
a) You cannot open a Rhino 7 file in Rhino 8 mac which in 7 is still open (which would be useful to compare performance on the same file)
stevebaer
October 19, 2021, 3:28pm
14
Does the same thing happen if you have metal disabled?
OXII
November 2, 2021, 10:10am
15
I’ve upgraded to macOS Monterey tis morning and the graphic performance on my macbook pro late 2016 with Rhino mac 7.7.11 has significantly improved.
The program seems to be more responsive, faster in display speed and much less laggy.
Santa
October 21, 2023, 4:19pm
16
I have downloaded rhino 8 beta version but it’s so slow. And rhino on my Mac is taking from 5 to 9 gb of ram. I can’t understand why.
Can someone help me
This is my system info
Apple macOS Version 13.4.1 (Build 22F82) (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
Metal GPU Family Apple 7
USB devices
Bluetooth devices
Third party kernel extensions
Third party plugins
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
stevebaer
October 21, 2023, 5:50pm
17
Try disabling the three plugins that do not ship with Rhino with the plugin manager and restart Rhino. Does this make a difference?
Santa
October 26, 2023, 4:54pm
19
i disable them, but files are still heavy and files with a lot of technical drawings are particularly slow
stevebaer
November 2, 2023, 7:04pm
20
Are you still seeing a crash after disabling the plugins?
Slow and heavy is something else and we can try to take a look at your files to see if something can be done to improve the situation.
