12.5 Rockin' and stable

[Wireline]

Originally Posted by tonepad

++1...been using these kinds of helpers for years

Has this worked (except as noted) for you? I'm always reluctant to try these over the counter online fixes, having been totally fried by a similar thing from many years ago on another app.

Thanks...

[john1192]

how is Mavericks doing with 12.5 ??? i have been waiting to install as i do not like Yosemite .. takes much longer to startup and i see No Advantage to Yosemite .. i hate seeing a Status Line as the OS is booting up .. Mavericks is very Snappy ..

thank you john

Originally Posted by tonepad

Soooo, let's review: I have found along with the well doc'd brother "stanonbass" experience that PT 12.5 is a fail on Win7 (dunno about W10) Buuttt now it seems that it's stable on OS X 10.10 with the caveat of a graphics bug on 10.11 (which BTW I experienced with 12.4 on 10.11 as well so that's an OSX/PT issue in general).

Now that I'm on hiatus and since I rolled my MPro rig back to 10.10 it seems 12.5 may be OK to try? However since this is my PostPro rig where I don't see a need for the collab thing, and I've heard that AVE is not improved after all, could someone tell me any benefits I would miss staying on 12.4?

It seems odd that this is a Win only bug since it's been a long, long time since we've seen OS related issues in PT releases. Ironically I always test new versions on a second Win7 clone drive to flush out issues, so in this case of the W7 fail I went no further.

[Wireline]

Just a quick followup:

Trashing all prefs, etc…didn't have much effect on a 10.8.5 system operating on 24/96K projects, at least not below 128 samples…if anything, the 9173 errors came in faster. Nothing but Avid audio plugs, and very few of those.

15 track projects brought the system down, even with the system meter showing 13-14% usage….the same project in 10 showed no signs of stress or complaints at the lowest buffer setting.

[TOM@METRO]

Ken, have you tried this session in 121.4?

[Wireline]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

Ken, have you tried this session in 121.4?

Not yet…no time to be finding the magic number. Latest 11 works sometimes, 12.5 always an adventure, but 10 remains a workhorse.

Just gonna go with that for now. Fairly certain it will all get sorted, and when it does, I'll commit to the change. Right now, time is the one commodity I just don't have.

But thanks, Tom…appreciate your chiming in!

[TOM@METRO]

I fully understand Ken. Getting our work done is a first priority.

12.4 is doing it for me, so I thought I'd mention it.

If 10 is working, don't fix it.

[stanonbass]

I had some drive indexing happening with back blaze. That was my glitchy midi tracking issue.

But there is a bit of lag in the gui on el capitan. Its working though.

Got a new setup on the way. Should give me a good boost in performance on the hackintosh.

[tonepad]

Originally Posted by john1192

how is Mavericks doing with 12.5 ??? i have been waiting to install as i do not like Yosemite .. takes much longer to startup and i see No Advantage to Yosemite .. i hate seeing a Status Line as the OS is booting up .. Mavericks is very Snappy ..

thank you john

I ran Mavs 10.9 for awhile and I still have it on my MacBook Pro so I can run PT10 HD (which won't run on any OS above that). Mavs is fine in my experience, but I just decided to try Yo on one of my MacPro clone SSDs and it's been fine esp compared to El Cap. No hurry to upgrade if you like Mavs, I never had any issues with it.

[hatepop]

12.5 on El Capitan is only 50% stable, some avid & 3rd party plugins create laggy meters and parameters, my system: 12 processor Mid 2010 Mac Pro El Capitan.

As far as I'm conerned, 12.5 is not compatible with El Capitan.

[john1192]

hi Wilson, thank you .. i have tested Yosemite and have been testing ElCap on a separate partition .. staying with Mavericks until it is off the compatibility list ..

cheers john



testing

Originally Posted by tonepad

I ran Mavs 10.9 for awhile and I still have it on my MacBook Pro so I can run PT10 HD (which won't run on any OS above that). Mavs is fine in my experience, but I just decided to try Yo on one of my MacPro clone SSDs and it's been fine esp compared to El Cap. No hurry to upgrade if you like Mavs, I never had any issues with it.