andzor Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Hi. Any photoshoppers or Flashers out there? Anyway, I've got the Ati X1600 (Asus Crossfire Ed.). I'm using the borisbadenov 3.2 driver. And I think it's somewhat strange going on with my 2D-drivers. Photoshop and Flash is running too slow. Not "too slow to work with"-slow, but it ain't smooth like it should be, and that's pissing me off really. No joy working with it when it ain't working smooth like it should. Everything 3D seems to work out just fine, but when it comes to apps such as these, it ain't very smooth :/ Any experiences? Greatful for any suggestions! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 They don't run quite smooth, because they run under rosetta. I think we'll have to wait until their intel versions show up. Nevertheless, in my case, photoshop runs faily well for web design and so, but it gets slower as the resolutions increase. I haven't tried flash under my hackintosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardian06 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 hi, im preparing my hackintosh i didnt know about this performance issue, wow.. most of my work requieres photoshop and illustrator.. it is too slow? more than windows? now im curiosly... to work with mac, its recommended the hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I'd say get a real mac for your serious jobs. Also, there's no colorsync in hackintosh yet, so it's not quite reliable for print jobs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andzor Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 to work smoothly with photoshop etc we'll have to wait for adobe's release of an universal binary. Which means a release that will have full support for both intel based and PowerPC/G4-systems If you run photoshop for OS X on an Intel platform now, it runs through rosetta. A translation protocol between the OS and the app. Though it runs with no problems, but it's not so smooth as in windows unfortunately. i guess adobe will make this release pretty soon, since apple is producing intelbased mac-series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardian06 Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 i see, thanks for the opinion guys, too bad, in latin america the price of mac, its about %50 more than in usa... and if u buy from ebay the taxes are about 50% so... damm globalization hehehe by the way i think its posible for a pc run perdectly the osx, because a mac based machine works with specific hardware, if your pc dont change any hard can work same as mac, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 I want to make sure something is clear. An intel-based mac will have the same trouble running photoshop or flash than a hackintosh will. So, If you need a mac at this point to run Photoshop, get a PPC mac. Or wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 You can use your hackintosh at home, do everyday stuff, but I can't say it runs just like a mac. As I previously have written, there's no colorsync in hackintosh. You need to hunt for drivers to get your hardware running. In my case, it was easy, but in a lot of cases, it's not. If you want to use Mac OS for your professional work, then you should buy a real mac. A mac mini has a quite reasonable price, and really does good job. You can also run windows on intel macs as well as running on a regular pc. If I were going to buy a new low-budget computer, that would be definitely the mac mini. However, playing with kexts and stuff in a hackintosh, gives you a lot of knowledge and experience on Mac OS. It is great to run Mac OS in a PC, but it takes time and some effort to get the most out of your hardware. To me, Hackintosh is very enjoyable but experimental, where a real Mac is for serious stuff. Your choice depends on what you want to do with it. Also let me assure you that even after being able to run Mac OS in your PC, you most probably will still want to get a real mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalMACNUT Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 This puzzles me? I have no problem with Photoshop. I using ( currently ) Pm800 (Socket 478) Via M/B with a FX 5500 card( OC to 335/500 Orig. 270/400) ( Titan ) everything is smooth. Must be lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 OriginalMACNUT, did you try opening 5 or more psd's with several layers at the same time? I meant 300 dpi by "higher resolution". If yes, and everything still goes smooth for you, then either you must have plenty of ram, or you're lucky as you've said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalMACNUT Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 OriginalMACNUT, did you try opening 5 or more psd's with several layers at the same time? I meant 300 dpi by "higher resolution". If yes, and everything still goes smooth for you, then either you must have plenty of ram, or you're lucky as you've said. Well, Thats Not Fair then B/c I'm running 2Gb Of ram. I never thought about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Ram saves time (and ass) in most cases.. I think I'll add some ram to my setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalMACNUT Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Ram saves time (and ass) in most cases.. I think I'll add some ram to my setup. Does it really make that much of a DIFF. ? VS. say someone running 512mb of Ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Yes, it really does when it comes to photoshop. If you add 1.5 GB of ram to 512 MB, it just feels like a whole new machine. (speaking of dealing with lots of layers and a lot of history states, of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revert Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 I bought an X1600 pro and ended up sending it back, i thought the performance was really poor, don't know if you have the pro or not. I was testing it out with the Shake trial, moving nodes and connectiing them was painfully slow. Now i'm using my Geforce 6800 and there's no slow down. It feels great. Probably not related to your situation but in my opinion the X1600 pro isn't that good a card at all and i was glad to see the back of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardian06 Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 wow, its getting better this topic, nice! here is the situation... at least for my experience for running adobe, macromedia and maybe maya and shake (the last not tested yet) windows like all the programs, the first time takes a time to load, after that gets really good speed, BUT for some reazon in windows becomes to be slowly (after 1 or 2 ours, specially on intel pc) if u switch programs can get an explorer error, or any kind of error (ej: photoshop, + acdsee + illustrator) have to know when this programs are running, maybe 1 iexplorer window or msn sesion will be open ok?. that was on my home pc, and work pc that is a dell dimension p4 ht 3.2 ghz 1.5 gb ram ddr2 i thik because iit has an ati x300 pcie card osx 10.4 on mac g4 load faster always, can switch without problems, but when u have to save project takes more time than a pc, but renders are greeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaatttt faster than windows ppc 1 ghz 768 ram and fx5200 a mac osx with less hard do a lot more that a window with double or more speed, so... the hackintosh pc: should work more faster than a regular mac with certain apps (working with render and large visual resources) i saw that the big problem its difrent hard spec thats incompatible, butT u dont change your mobo, ur peocesor, ur video card every day right? at least not me, so if the hardware is the same and the orrect kexts are applied to everything work, it has to be like a xuper mac isnt? with the stability of mac and resources of a pc, that s my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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