aweisling

I have a strange issue with some Mac Minis, I'm hoping someone might have a solution for me.

I'm able to run a pretty simple patch flawlessly on the following machine:

However, when I try the same patch on a newer machine, not only does the framerate drop to 3fps, but even opening the example/help files causes crashes. Interestingly, none of the sample video files will play beyond the first frame (countdown, crashtest, etc.). I thought maybe it was purely a GL issue, as it seemed the slab objects were mucking things up, but I tried opening the jit.wake help file and even that won't play videos. Here are the specs for the newer machine:

Confirming graphics card use via OpenGL Extensions Viewer app

I'm a bit at the end of my rope here, I'd love to hear from anyone who has thoughts/suggestions!

I have a strange issue with some Mac Minis, I'm hoping someone might have a solution for me.
I'm able to run a pretty simple patch flawlessly on the following machine:
2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo
8gb 1067 mhz ddr3
nvidia geforce 320m 256 mb

However, when I try the same patch on a newer machine, not only does the framerate drop to 3fps, but even opening the example/help files causes crashes. Interestingly, none of the sample video files will play beyond the first frame (countdown, crashtest, etc.).  I thought maybe it was purely a GL issue, as it seemed the slab objects were mucking things up, but I tried opening the jit.wake help file and even that won't play videos. Here are the specs for the newer machine:

2.5 ghz intel core i5
16gb 1600 mhz ddr3
intel hd graphics 4000 1024 mb

Things I have tried:
Uninstalling and reinstalling Max
Restarts
Disk permissions/verifications
New user account on machine
jitter glreadback fbo
Updating computer
Latest version of Quicktime
Confirming graphics card use via OpenGL Extensions Viewer app

slab-issues

there's clearly something going on with your machine. i would send a message to support to try and get it sorted out (click the link at the top of the page)

hi anna.
there's clearly something going on with your machine. i would send a message to support to try and get it sorted out (click the link at the top of the page)


I actually found that, on two different machines that were having these issues, a @engine qt on the jit.movie object resolved the issue.

...Not that I totally understand why that is, but it's at least a temporary solution to a time-sensitive problem. If anyone could enlighten me, though, that would be great; I'd love to learn more about why this happened.

Thanks so much for your post.
I actually found that, on two different machines that were having these issues, a @engine qt on the jit.movie object resolved the issue.
...Not that I totally understand why that is, but it's at least a temporary solution to a time-sensitive problem. If anyone could enlighten me, though, that would be great; I'd love to learn more about why this happened.

slab issues