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Re: 64 bit Vista on a Mac Pro
by Sam Alexander on Apr 15, 2008 at 12:08:18 pm

Hi,
I don't have the exact configuration you have, but my experience may be of use.

I have a newer 8-core Mac Pro with the NVidia 8800GT and 8Gb of RAM and I've got a bootcamp partition with Vista x64 and am running LightWave x64 (and Sonar x64) and it totally sees all the memory and screams. The Windows "performance indicator" in the control panel was off the chart practically and Vista with SP1 is fantastic on that machine and quite stable once I turned off the UAC.

What I have been told though, is that perhaps my memory confirguration might be faster than yours (well maybe for Final Cut Pro in OSX only or for everything- I'm not sure?) because apparently these Mac Pro's memory architecture likes 4 sticks of the same size to perform at the fastest. I was told that if I were to add the extra 4 x 2Gb memory sticks I got to the 2 x 1Gb sticks that shipped with it for a total of 10Gb RAM, that my systems access to memory would be noticably slower than removing the 2 x 1Gb sticks and just using the 8Gb in a 2-pair layout.

I'm sure you'll find 3DS works lovely on that system and notice the difference in rendering in 64bit (LW sure renders faster in 64bit), however, you may wish to drop to 4Gb RAM (assuming they are 4 x 1Gb) and see if that speeds anything up in renders... it would be interesting to see if what my vendors say is true really is - I don't know too much about the Mac hardware, I just moved to this platform for Final Cut, but still have alot of post workflow in Windows apps.

I really do love Fusion though - I'm running an additional XP virtual machine for when I'm in OSX and it too totally screams and is useful for when I don't feel like rebooting into Vista x64 and don't need that extra power for my win apps. Fusion supposedly gives me access to the Vista x64 bootcamp partition from within Mac OSX but I'm a bit paranoid about doing so - as it's alot easier to restore a simple XP VM than it would be to restore my Vista partition - I hear using a bootcamp partition in a VM can potentially corrupt it if you don't close it properly and then reboot into it natively.

anyway, hope some of this is useful. good luck :-)


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