cdickinson66 Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Hello I have 2 different Hackintoshes currently being used for audio production. Both run Snow Leopard 10.6.4 almost Vanilla with a DSDT and Legacy HDA + Enabler for audio. i7 920 CPUs On the my Gigabyte X58A UD3R the about this mac reads: 1 Processor 4 cores When I open Digidesign/AVID Protools LE 8.03.cs2 the Playback Engine is stuck at 1 Host Processor. On my old PPC g5 quad it used to read 4. On my ASUS Rampage Gene II , i7 965 hackintosh it reads 8. Of course it is a drop down menu that you can select how many hosts the program is to use. This Gigabyte is stuck at 1. When I run Geekbench on this Gigiabyte at 64bit I score 12313. And of course it read 1 processor, 4 cores, 8 Threads. Can someone help me sort this out? Any Protools users out there? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdickinson66 Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 No Pro Tools users out there? Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbynator Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Hi Mate Pro-tools still only has a 32bit audio engine, that could be your problem, there is a 8.0.4 coming soon, but that will still be 32bit. I've got a Mac-pro dual quad core and I still need to run it in 32bit mode to have a fully working pro-tools, wouldn't;t expect a 64 bit any time soon. Cheers Nobby [Edit] Meant to say, boot with the flag arch=i386 and see if you get more than one core Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NelsonRA Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Hi Mate Pro-tools still only has a 32bit audio engine, that could be your problem, there is a 8.0.4 coming soon, but that will still be 32bit. I've got a Mac-pro dual quad core and I still need to run it in 32bit mode to have a fully working pro-tools, wouldn't;t expect a 64 bit any time soon. Cheers Nobby [Edit] Meant to say, boot with the flag arch=i386 and see if you get more than one core Hello everyone, I would like some help. I intend to build a Hackintosh to work with Pro tools and Logic Pro and would like an indication from you about which MB to buy and also whether it is better or if it is essentially necessary to work with Intel Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbynator Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Hi Nelson Can't help you much, all of my hacks have been laptops except one Dell XPS something for a friend. however I personally think your hackintosh life would be a lot easier if you stick with intel precessors and nvidia graphics, this forum is ace for info so just have search around for other peoples specs. Good luck with the build, PM me if you need any help with Pro-tools/Logic Cheers Nobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NelsonRA Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Hi Nelson Can't help you much, all of my hacks have been laptops except one Dell XPS something for a friend. however I personally think your hackintosh life would be a lot easier if you stick with intel precessors and nvidia graphics, this forum is ace for info so just have search around for other peoples specs. Good luck with the build, PM me if you need any help with Pro-tools/Logic Cheers Nobby Nobby, Thank you for your feedback. I will rely on Intel and NVIDIA-Graphics. The difficult in these cases is to remember that a Hackintosh is premised on being a cheap equipment. So when we find the components just choosing the "Extreme / Ultimate / Super ..." (Lol) Thanks, Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eledu71 Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Hello I have 2 different Hackintoshes currently being used for audio production. Both run Snow Leopard 10.6.4 almost Vanilla with a DSDT and Legacy HDA + Enabler for audio. i7 920 CPUs On the my Gigabyte X58A UD3R the about this mac reads: 1 Processor 4 cores When I open Digidesign/AVID Protools LE 8.03.cs2 the Playback Engine is stuck at 1 Host Processor. On my old PPC g5 quad it used to read 4. On my ASUS Rampage Gene II , i7 965 hackintosh it reads 8. Of course it is a drop down menu that you can select how many hosts the program is to use. This Gigabyte is stuck at 1. When I run Geekbench on this Gigiabyte at 64bit I score 12313. And of course it read 1 processor, 4 cores, 8 Threads. Can someone help me sort this out? Any Protools users out there? Thanks ! I'm running ProtoolsLE 8.0.3 flawlessly on 10.6.2 My Playback engine shows 4 processor (but I assign 3 to protools as it seams that it's better to leave 1 processor free to the system). But, reading your post, if you have other hackintoshes working ok, I guess that there's some kext conflict or needed.... Best regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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