Problem with Apple products is that they offer very weak GPUs. With the right hardware, it can be way faster than CPU I don't really see a reason for supporting Metal in futureįor many people, the main/only reason to choose GPU rendering is speed. only thing i worry about like i said was.

but it really felt horrible to suddenly update and gpu was gone. in an official way.ĭoes that make sense? I love vray.

'do you guys even sleep? ' From a purchaser stand point i need to look to where the future is and which companies will be proactively supporting a long lasting way forward.

I know its hard to turn a large ship with lots of legacy code. thats the fear that i think a ton of users that use mac fear right now. going forward tyring to hobble nvidia on the mac side might be a pain and companies will just cut their losses. 'dumb in my opinion' but it is a possibly. Lets also hope nvidia keeps doing drivers.Īpple may never forgive nvidia. it really gives the impression that once it gets too hard you will just drop mac support. thats not the way to prepare pipelines for the future. and 2 not just turn off a major feature and slyly tell folks they can turn it on. 1 - be upfront with users about that post open / gl future. If i had to pick a horse i want that company to be doing 2 things. Since Apple are not 'that we know of anyway ' they put their eggs in the Metal 2 api basket. If apple supported nvidia this would not be a concern. but right now companies in the 3d space have to decide which way they will go. the octance folks are all in on metal and trying to really push ahead on this.eventually with the gpu's in the cloud it may be a moot point eventually. that doesn't give your users confidence that you won't just drop mac support because it wasn't worth changing out your code. since open/gl etc are now 'dead to them' as it were - I'm talking about gpu rendering being hidden and basically at your own risk status. i was mentioning metal which is the preferred way apple wants folks to work. If using an AMD GPU, the only supported add-in card with Metal support is:ĪMD Radeon 7950 (Tahiti Pro) Sapphire card.You somewhat misunderstand. These configurations are unsupported, but some customers have found them to work. It's possible to build custom Mac systems with Metal support, either using an old Mac Pro and upgrading the graphics card or building it from scratch using compatible parts (Hackintosh). These are the Mac computers that support Metal: Metal is a graphics technology from Apple that allows faster and more fluid graphics. The Witness requires Metal for rendering. We released The Witness for MacOS a little while back, and we felt it'd be a good idea to post the system requirements somewhere so we could link people to them when they ask.

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