Comments on: Is it time to move to Vista? http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131 People and thoughts behind XSI in production... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:29:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ziggy http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-17324 ziggy Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-17324 foundations 6.02 now works fine for me in Vista. Turning off Aero may help as well. Unfortunately after upgrading to Vista I realized what a honorable POS it is, and would stay away from it as long a possible. I lost so much of my system resources to that buggy annoying bloated DRM server masquerading as an OS that 8gb of ram on vista 64bit ultimate performed like 4 gigs under XP 32-bit. Of course my drivers didn't work (especially MS competitors like VMware) because Vista disabled the drivers as unapproved non-MS signed drivers ("a Vista 64bit feature",) and when i got them working perfectly via a technet work around, or in unsigned diver mode MS patched to disable them again calling it an exploit and removing the the entire unsigned drivers option from the safe mode boot menu. My printer, and scanner didn't work and my wacom tablet cut in and out while my MS mouse and keyboard flaked my apps refused to run, Burning data cd's or DVD,s failed, copying 400 MB on the same clean, unfragmented hard drive partition take 45 minutes and multiple tries. All kinds of productivity destroying foolishness ensued including loss of 200GB of data on my external usb drive for no apparent reason. Apps saying not responding and OS greying out the whole display just because a program is busy working on a task I just told it to do.I tried to setup dual display via a second video card and the machine began to stutter mouse and explorer freeze every 3 seconds and audio go's blip, blip blip. Oh IRQ conflicts welcome back to windows 98 anyone ? While my hard drive grinds 24/7 running bs and any demanding apps sputter along on my quad core 8800GT 8gig system like it was a 1 gig P4 with 768MB of ram and a sis video card. My SATA drives performed like IDE or PIO. Maybe if I was using my PC for e-mail and web browsing and hadn't run XP on it before I wouldn't notice the difference, but I don't, I did and I do. I have switched to Ubuntu and I dual boot XP to use XSI for now. I would avoid Vista like the plague. When XP support is no more, I'm going Linux or MAC hopefully Softimage picks up their poor Linux support beyond selling it with a $300 emulator that let's it run on one ancient releases of a handfull of distro and starts supporting more openGL based plug -ns. Direct-x 10 for Vista is a push to force people off XP and open GL has 2.0 HSL Shaders and generally keeps up with anything in the direct X world, runs great on windows and other platforms (until Microsoft puts a stop to that by sabotaging that at the OS level and saying opps anti-trust we don't know why it started to run like ass in windows or btw opengl drivers are not approved on 64-bit why not try DirectX instead! Wink Wink) Open GL is just under utilized in the face of Microsoft's proprietary api. Vista is a flop, is unbearable as a serious workstation for CGI and it's an insult to loyal MS customers. I bought XSI over other solutions like 3dsmax (though XSI is a wonderful app)due in part to learning it ran on linux. Only not with my license , not natively, and not with most plug-ins, cost $300 more and their support for it is relegated to a wiki and running on very old disto's with degraded performance. The new version comes out and where is the new linux support to keep XSI current. Heck if they had a native nix version they could dominate the Mac platform hands down how many graphic artist's don't prefer a Mac right? Programmers like direct x , but artists , animators and gamers could careless if it worked and looked as good under open GL. Check out the OGL shader blender uses if you doubt the capabilities are there with Direct-X. PS I don't hate vista because I use Ubuntu Linux or use ubuntu Linux because I hate Vista and XP is soon to be history. foundations 6.02 now works fine for me in Vista. Turning off Aero may help as well. Unfortunately after upgrading to Vista I realized what a honorable POS it is, and would stay away from it as long a possible. I lost so much of my system resources to that buggy annoying bloated DRM server masquerading as an OS that 8gb of ram on vista 64bit ultimate performed like 4 gigs under XP 32-bit. Of course my drivers didn’t work (especially MS competitors like VMware) because Vista disabled the drivers as unapproved non-MS signed drivers (”a Vista 64bit feature”,) and when i got them working perfectly via a technet work around, or in unsigned diver mode MS patched to disable them again calling it an exploit and removing the the entire unsigned drivers option from the safe mode boot menu. My printer, and scanner didn’t work and my wacom tablet cut in and out while my MS mouse and keyboard flaked my apps refused to run, Burning data cd’s or DVD,s failed, copying 400 MB on the same clean, unfragmented hard drive partition take 45 minutes and multiple tries. All kinds of productivity destroying foolishness ensued including loss of 200GB of data on my external usb drive for no apparent reason. Apps saying not responding and OS greying out the whole display just because a program is busy working on a task I just told it to do.I tried to setup dual display via a second video card and the machine began to stutter mouse and explorer freeze every 3 seconds and audio go’s blip, blip blip. Oh IRQ conflicts welcome back to windows 98 anyone ? While my hard drive grinds 24/7 running bs and any demanding apps sputter along on my quad core 8800GT 8gig system like it was a 1 gig P4 with 768MB of ram and a sis video card. My SATA drives performed like IDE or PIO. Maybe if I was using my PC for e-mail and web browsing and hadn’t run XP on it before I wouldn’t notice the difference, but I don’t, I did and I do. I have switched to Ubuntu and I dual boot XP to use XSI for now. I would avoid Vista like the plague. When XP support is no more, I’m going Linux or MAC hopefully Softimage picks up their poor Linux support beyond selling it with a $300 emulator that let’s it run on one ancient releases of a handfull of distro and starts supporting more openGL based plug -ns. Direct-x 10 for Vista is a push to force people off XP and open GL has 2.0 HSL Shaders and generally keeps up with anything in the direct X world, runs great on windows and other platforms (until Microsoft puts a stop to that by sabotaging that at the OS level and saying opps anti-trust we don’t know why it started to run like ass in windows or btw opengl drivers are not approved on 64-bit why not try DirectX instead! Wink Wink) Open GL is just under utilized in the face of Microsoft’s proprietary api. Vista is a flop, is unbearable as a serious workstation for CGI and it’s an insult to loyal MS customers. I bought XSI over other solutions like 3dsmax (though XSI is a wonderful app)due in part to learning it ran on linux. Only not with my license , not natively, and not with most plug-ins, cost $300 more and their support for it is relegated to a wiki and running on very old disto’s with degraded performance. The new version comes out and where is the new linux support to keep XSI current. Heck if they had a native nix version they could dominate the Mac platform hands down how many graphic artist’s don’t prefer a Mac right? Programmers like direct x , but artists , animators and gamers could careless if it worked and looked as good under open GL. Check out the OGL shader blender uses if you doubt the capabilities are there with Direct-X. PS I don’t hate vista because I use Ubuntu Linux or use ubuntu Linux because I hate Vista and XP is soon to be history.

]]> By: Denis http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-16906 Denis Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:28:47 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-16906 For those people who are having the grey/black selection bug in vista, check the solution here, it works http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/Vista_Known_Issues For those people who are having the grey/black selection bug in vista, check the solution here, it works

http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/Vista_Known_Issues

]]> By: ehrenk http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-16225 ehrenk Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:29:41 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-16225 I am a huge fan of xsi. Im running on an old dual xeon with xp pro but ive recently ported to mac with a macbook pro and a mac pro. I hope one day that XSI will be available on mac osx/tiger though i realize the amount of sales will be low. given apples recent success due to the ipod and its ability to deliver a pretty damn stable os i really thing its the best OS for graphic apps due to its intuitive interface (much like xsi itself). Not only intuitive but it delivers a more professional workspace. Ive signed the petition of course and i can always dual boot. However im still hopeful that xsi will be available for mac one day it would be such a dream come true. I am a huge fan of xsi. Im running on an old dual xeon with xp pro but ive recently ported to mac with a macbook pro and a mac pro. I hope one day that XSI will be available on mac osx/tiger though i realize the amount of sales will be low. given apples recent success due to the ipod and its ability to deliver a pretty damn stable os i really thing its the best OS for graphic apps due to its intuitive interface (much like xsi itself). Not only intuitive but it delivers a more professional workspace. Ive signed the petition of course and i can always dual boot. However im still hopeful that xsi will be available for mac one day it would be such a dream come true.

]]> By: Peter Van Aken http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-16008 Peter Van Aken Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:29:27 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-16008 Hi, does XSI 6 Foundation use DirectX to render content in its real-time modeling viewport? Thanks Hi, does XSI 6 Foundation use DirectX to render content in its real-time modeling viewport?
Thanks

]]> By: Albin http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-15999 Albin Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:41:45 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-15999 Sorry, that is Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit Sorry, that is Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

]]> By: Albin http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-15998 Albin Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:40:52 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-15998 I run my laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. I installed XSI 6.01, and the installing process went fine. But then you have to run the licence manager and stuff. I turned off the UAC to enable the 'start'-button in the licencemanager, and i also inserted 'COM1' instead of 'IBU' in the config-file.. But when i start the server, it stops automatically after 5 seconds or so.... anyone with the same problem? Please, im desperate! :P I run my laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. I installed XSI 6.01, and the installing process went fine. But then you have to run the licence manager and stuff. I turned off the UAC to enable the ’start’-button in the licencemanager, and i also inserted ‘COM1′ instead of ‘IBU’ in the config-file..
But when i start the server, it stops automatically after 5 seconds or so…. anyone with the same problem? Please, im desperate! :P

]]> By: Steve http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-15750 Steve Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:24:36 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-15750 I think, Vista is too expensive regarding both money and binding of system resources. And this system resources I want to be used by XSI. So I think I will stay as long as possible on Windows XP. And I hope XSI also will be as long as possibel compatible with XP. This is a subjective opinion without testing Vista and XSI on Vista. Best regards Steve I think, Vista is too expensive regarding both money and binding of system resources. And this system resources I want to be used by XSI. So I think I will stay as long as possible on Windows XP. And I hope XSI also will be as long as possibel compatible with XP. This is a subjective opinion without testing Vista and XSI on Vista.

Best regards

Steve

]]> By: Ace http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-15601 Ace Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:58:59 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-15601 Now I have messed around extensively with XSI 6 and Vista, I have learned that for XSI to run great on my laptop with a 7900 GS Nvidia Go card is to right click select the compatability tab and select the All users button on bottom of window, once there just select or check run in Windows XP Svc Pk 2 mode and apply then close. What happens now is that all the vista composite stuff goes off and runs in Vista Basic mode, but will return back to normal once XSI is closed. Now some are saying or asking why couldn't I just do the compat stuff through the first Property win? Well everytime I did it I kept getting a SICore Crash. But when I changed the setting for all users it does just fine. Now I have messed around extensively with XSI 6 and Vista, I have learned that for XSI to run great on my laptop with a 7900 GS Nvidia Go card is to right click select the compatability tab and select the All users button on bottom of window, once there just select or check run in Windows XP Svc Pk 2 mode and apply then close. What happens now is that all the vista composite stuff goes off and runs in Vista Basic mode, but will return back to normal once XSI is closed. Now some are saying or asking why couldn’t I just do the compat stuff through the first Property win? Well everytime I did it I kept getting a SICore Crash. But when I changed the setting for all users it does just fine.

]]> By: Mark http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-15415 Mark Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:01:51 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-15415 Hi guys, I've some problems running xsi 6.01 on vista home premium 32 bit. The program seems unstable and some feautures don't work fine: selection tool draws a grey or black area in the viewport, polygon selection doesn't work, region tool sometimes makes the viewport become black, scene crash and the program isn't able to recover after forced closing and restart...And so on... Do you have the same problems? Softimage support does'nt answer my mails, so I hope in a reply here. Thanks, Marco. Hi guys, I’ve some problems running xsi 6.01 on vista home premium 32 bit.
The program seems unstable and some feautures don’t work fine: selection tool draws a grey or black area in the viewport, polygon selection doesn’t work, region tool sometimes makes the viewport become black, scene crash and the program isn’t able to recover after forced closing and restart…And so on…
Do you have the same problems?
Softimage support does’nt answer my mails, so I hope in a reply here.

Thanks,

Marco.

]]> By: Eduardo http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/131#comment-13160 Eduardo Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:02:24 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=131#comment-13160 What kind of Windows Vista are you using? 32 or 64 Bits? What kind of Windows Vista are you using? 32 or 64 Bits?

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