Re: I've been to the mountain: Adobe. Answers. One question.

Ummm - I have to admit, i have no clue what you are talking about here. First - lets look at some facts...

[Laurie Pepper] "CS3 DOES NOW use open gl previewing with 10.5.5."

10.5.5 does not exist - YET. There is no way for you or anyone else to try this as Apple has not released it yet. Unfortunately - I believe your "super duper techie" is feeding you "super duper FALSE" information.

[Laurie Pepper] "or use Apple's CHUD to disable 4 processors."

CHUD (Computer Hardware Understanding Development) ) is a developer toolkit for performance optimization in Mac OS X. Here is Apple's description....

"The Computer Hardware Understanding Developer Tools (CHUD Tools) are designed to help hardware and software developers measure and optimize the performance of Macintosh systems."

So unless you have the source code for After Effects (which I HIGHLY doubt you do) - CHUD will do absolutely nothing for you in terms of CS3 optimization.

[Laurie Pepper] "He says that CS3 is buggy with an 8 core machine, because it can only use 4 processors & gets into logjams, "

CS3 has a feature called Multiprocessing that is very similar to our Nucleo (Not Nucleo Pro) product in terms of processor optimization. That statement from your super duper techie is completely false.

[Laurie Pepper] "I asked him: Can Nucleo Pro handle the 8 processors?"

Since I helped invent Nucleo Pro - I can say with a high degree of confidence that NP2 can use all 8 processors quite nicely. (just make sure you have 2GB of RAM per processor)


Steve
GridIron Software Inc.