Anyone Running El Capitan with PT12 HD Native?

[noah330]

I was wondering what the verdict is with El Capitan?

I'm still running Yosemite and I'm not having any issues but I was reading about some performance enhancements.

Has anyone made the switch? If so, how is it?

[Darryl Ramm]

If things are working just stay where you are. There is just nothing worth moving to El Capitan for on a professional DAW system and there are many risks. There are threads all over DUC discussing El Crapitan problems, including graphics related issues, that you can search for. We probably don't need yet another thread rehashing that same saga of one of the worst OS X releases in most folks memory.

[Drew Mazurek]

I am running this config with the only issue being the GUI lags with Avid and Slate plugins. They seem to be visual only, no impact on performance. Your milage may vary of course.

[audiobob]

Originally Posted by noah330

I was wondering what the verdict is with El Capitan?

I'm still running Yosemite and I'm not having any issues but I was reading about some performance enhancements.

Has anyone made the switch? If so, how is it?

I made the switch. Stayed for a few months then went back to 10.10.5. My world is much more stable. The GUI choppiness was too much to handle. The Sierra beta is actually better than El Cap imo. I'd stay at Yosemite.

[Blues Bird]

Originally Posted by audiobob

I made the switch. Stayed for a few months then went back to 10.10.5. My world is much more stable. The GUI choppiness was too much to handle. The Sierra beta is actually better than El Cap imo. I'd stay at Yosemite.

How, exactly, can you roll back?

[YYR123]

Reinstall or assuming you upgraded on a spare drive, Then just pop your 10.10.5 drive back in....

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by Blues Bird

How, exactly, can you roll back?

From the backup you surely made before upgrading. Ideally with Carbon Copy Cloner so that a quick recovery is only a reboot away. Or even better you should have installed El Capitan on a new/spare disk partition and just reboot back to your old system. You should not be doing in-situ OS X upgrades, they are risky, Avid warns against them, and unless you have a cloned/backup image you just screwed yourself over if there are problems.

If you did not make a backup before upgrading, well... you need to do a full clean reinstall of the previous OS X release and reinstall all the apps etc. There are different approaches there depending on exactly how the computer is set up, spare disk/partition space etc.. Lots and lots of places on the Web provide instructions for doing that. None of this is too hard, but if you are not computer savvy then getting help from somebody or paying a computer repair center to reinstall the older OS X release may make sense. You will lose all apps, third party drivers and user data on that partition the old OS X is installed on (ideally you restore to a different boot partition so you do not have to wipe the current running El Capitan image.. just in case).

You can only do this if your Mac supports that older OS X release, if your mac came with El Capitan installed you are SOL.

[JFreak]

From what I've seen, the beta of macOS Sierra performs much better than OSX El Crapo. A lot better. With that said, I'm not recommending anyone to run unsupported platform in production environment, but if you have the time, please try it yourself and be prepared for a massive performance boost once Apple delivers.

[audiobob]

Originally Posted by Blues Bird

How, exactly, can you roll back?

I stated with a clean slate. Had an El Cap backup to pull from, but wiped the system drive and installed fresh and built up from there. Took me about a half day or so to get it all going.

[bradch00]

Originally Posted by JFreak

From what I've seen, the beta of macOS Sierra performs much better than OSX El Crapo. A lot better. With that said, I'm not recommending anyone to run unsupported platform in production environment, but if you have the tame, please try it yourself and be prepared for a massive performance boost once Apple delivers.

I noticed the performance to be much better than on Al-Crapitan.