Steve-C

Interesting. I was considering picking up an M4 Pro just to see if I could get decent performance without the overheating. Apple is in a pickle with this RAM shortage, probably costing them multiple millions a day in lost sales.

If you plan to use more than one external monitor you might as well wait for the Mac Studio. I ordered the M5 Max MacBook Pro (40GB GPU version) to see if it could be my main rig. I had two monitors hooked up to it and it ran well, but after a couple of hours work, anytime I worked in 3D the fans ramped up and the processor was obviously throttling. It has incredible power but it's probably too much for that form factor, at least it is if you use external monitors. As for the Mac Studio, you can't find a new one anywhere, they are months out. You can find the occasional used one but they are gouging the heck out of people right now because that's the only way you can get one and probably will be for a while. I've seen some listed for as much as 50% above retail price, crazy! Apple has been craming so much RAM in their systems that they have created a production bottleneck.

I recently started using X17 regularly and noticed this off the bat, text leaders all over the place in elevations. Hope it's resolved soon, very annoying.

That did it. Disable GPU ray tracing in prefernces, then enable Ray Casted Sun Shadow in your active view. Thanks a million Brad!

Tried that. Also turned bloom on and off, adjusted ambient occlusion, adjusted sharpening and super resolution, none of which made any difference. I should mention that this has been the result on multiple Mac devices and is why I use Windows machines at my home office and work office. I only use Mac for site measures.

Settings are the same for Mac and Windows

To compare here is the same image from Windows Mac used to have a "sharpen image" option a few years ago but they got rid of it. I have messaged tech support about this a couple of times but they gave me some BS about having to create a new template every so often when using a Mac. I tried that and still had the same results.

Has anyone figured this out yet? I get super crisp images and shadows on both of my PC rigs but on my Mac laptop I get this garbage. Normally I wouldn't care but I'm going to be out of town quite a bit over the next few months and I would really like to get this figured out. My current Mac is a 15" Macbook Air but I got the same results when I had a Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra.

This has happened before in the past but I can't remember what I did to fix it. Using X16

After working with the Mac Mini for a couple of days I sent it back. As much as I love the Mac OS, their renders don't even come close to a decent windows machine with dedicated graphics. I suppose the M4 Ultra might come close when it is released next year, but I can't see spending $5k for a computer that may come close to the renders I get from a Windows system half the cost (or less).

Are there any resources for importing these textures? All of my imported materials have been 2D, but now that the image quality of CA on a 4K monitor is so good, the lack of pbr is becoming more noticeable.

I just got the Mac Mini M4 Pro yesterday. I was optimistic that it might have enough power to be my main rig, it's close but I will likely trade it in on the M4 Ultra Mac Studio next year. The only reason I bought it was because my video card (4070Ti) crashed in my Windows machine. With that said, PRT image times have been around a minute like Michael said, but I almost never use that feature. I too prefer Mas OS to Windows.

I was hoping there was an option already built into the current version that offered a way to shut it off. But, considering the lack of responses I guess such an option does not exist.

Sorry I missed that thread. Your video is a perfect example of why I hate it so much. I guess we are both still waiting...