ChiefOshkosh Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 I'm having trouble running Chief on my Macbook Pro 15" with 2.6 ghz i7 and gtx 650m with 1gb gddr5 ram and 8gb of ddr3 ram. I'm left utterly confused as to why the entire program lags with choppy frame rate. My system should be able to blow away the layouts I have with a high frame rate when rotating. It's as if Chief is using the onboard Intel 4000 to render instead of the 650m. However, when I look into preferences and then go over to graphics status, chief recognizes that its using the 650m. I'm wondering if its a graphics card bug, because my windows laptop at the office has a similar spec layout and it used to work fine. all of a sudden after a couple of updates, it has the same slow performance. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I'm using the latest updates on both machines as well as the latest nvidia drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefOshkosh Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share Posted November 17, 2014 It's not an issue with my plans, its either an issue with a driver or software configuration. It's not just one plan it's every plan I try which I have had no issues with prior. Even the sample plans off CA website fully unzipped are taking forever to look at. I just thought that someone may know of some simple setting that I'm missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefOshkosh Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share Posted November 17, 2014 I have a hunch some driver or setting for the gtx is not allowing chief to work at its full potential. I can run Valley Benchmark on the exact same machine and have high framerates (40+) but Chief just doesn't want to run fluidly. Macbook pro 15" Mid 2012 (retina) intel core i7 quad ivy bridge processor 2.3ghz x4 256gb SSD 8gb 1600mhz ddr3 Ram Nvidia geforce gtx 650m with 1gb gddr5 ram OSX 10.10 Yosemite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 That MacBook should work fine. My MacBook pro is probably 6 years old and CA works fine on it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McQueen3D Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 If I saw this on my machine I'd troubleshoot by 1. Opening a different plan to see if it's plan-dependent or if the problem is seen on all plans. 2. Running a 3D game to see if it's a video card or driver issue. If you don't have one handy you can download a demo. If the problem is in one plan, send it to CA to see what the problem is. If the problem is all plans but a game runs well, check Edit : Preferences : Render in CA and make sure the settings are reasonable. If nothing runs well then it's probably the video card or driver. You could try uninstalling video drivers and downloading and installing fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefOshkosh Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 That's just the thing, other 3D apps work great. I tried installing a fresh copy of the DEMO off the website on both my Mac OS and Bootcamp Windows OS. Previously, it worked fluently on the Windows OS, but after a couple of updates, it doesnt work anymore.I rolled back graphics card drivers and still no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 You could try to set up Chief in the NVidia control panel. I always do mine but I don't have a mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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