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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Mountain Lion: Any Issues?

I've been running for a full day now on an external drive testing Resolve 8.2.2, Assimilate Scratch 6, CS 6 and Final Cut Studio 3. So far no problems with any of them.
 
Delon said:
I've been running for a full day now on an external drive testing Resolve 8.2.2, Assimilate Scratch 6, CS 6 and Final Cut Studio 3. So far no problems with any of them.
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Great to hear, Delon. THank you!.Just upgraded my Reitna. Haven't touched my Macpro with both Rocket and Quadro 4000. ANyone with these installed and working in Mountain Lion? Safe to upgrade?
 
Mark Toia said:
Im sure there will be..... Like always, stay clear of it for a while, until all outside software manufacturers get there head around it.

Everyone has finally just caught up with snow leopard. !
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Will do! :)
 
Sergio Perez said:
Great to hear, Delon. THank you!.Just upgraded my Reitna. Haven't touched my Macpro with both Rocket and Quadro 4000. ANyone with these installed and working in Mountain Lion? Safe to upgrade?
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I'm also holding back on my MacPro. I have then same hardware config as you and I'm especially worried about the Quadro 4000. Nvidia just recently released new Lion drivers for it but I've seen nothing new since.

I suppose in theory a Lion driver should work fine in ML but we need someone to take the plunge first and let us know.
 
I too often upgrade early for the performance enhancements a new OS brings, and have been burned everytime in the past with months long waits for Avid or peripheral drivers to catch up.

The upgrade to Mountain Lion is the first one where I've noticed not a single problem, Avid, CS6 all the FCP family and my Rocket and 12TB RAID are working great. Better than before I'd dare. Granted, results may vary with a decked out Mac Pro rather than my mobile rig.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/adobe-and-avid-report-only-minor-issues-with-mountain-lion/ helped make the decision to migrate, as Mountain Lion is an attractive OS with noticeable speed improvements while running multiple heavy duty programs.
 
I've have not any problems, 10.8 seems alot more like what a 10.7.5 would have been. way less issues than I have ever had with cat litter changes.
 
I've had a Mountain Lion partition on a iMac used for software development for some time now. And it's been upgraded to the release version. So far, so good. I get my replacement Macbook Pro retina system today, see other thread. They shipped it on the 24th, so no Mountain Lion installed, but I'm going to upgrade it straight away and see how it goes.

I'm not even going to try on a Mac Pro just yet. ...Tired of always being the lab rat and will let others do it for a change. ;) Also known as, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
10.8?

Brave people.

Put it this way; I consider 10.7 is now well-enough tested and well-enough understood, and am considering upgrading my main production machine to it.

Unless there's a compelling reason, be the last to upgrade, not the first!

Mike
 
I have a Retina MBP and haven't had a single issue with any software I run (Adobe, Avid, FCP7, FCPX, Resolve, RCXP, R3D Data Manager, etc.). Make sure you have the latest drivers and versions for everything. And Mountain Lion has been noticeably/much faster than Lion. Very impressed.
 
People really can stop being so paranoid about upgrades with them coming out much more often. Small problems get fixed way more often, and the actual upgrade process gets more and more streamlined.

That said, if it is a work machine and you have some free time, it is simple enough to clone your current system drive to another one, do a direct upgrade on the clone, and see how things go. This is even easier as many people are using a Mac Pro with easily replaceable drives. It is always a good idea to do a full clean install and reinstall all of your apps/tools/preferences but with 10.8 a direct upgrade (normal App Store install and upgrade) I have had zero issues amazingly. The variety of applications and tools I use would boggle many people's minds, and somehow it all works correctly, and in many cases works much better.

If you are still on 10.6 I would definitely suggest to just skip Lion all together. Not because I had any major issues with Lion (for many things it was better for me than 10.6), but because 10.8 is fantastic.
 
It seems that many start-up apps are causing occasional "black screen of death" system hangs after log on with Mountain Lion. I've confirmed that RED Watchdog will occasionally trigger this issue. The problem is wide-spread and lots of apps are triggering the issue. Several work-arounds exist at the moment, like auto-login or loading the problem apps after log-in.
 
Jeff: it at least installed fine on an early 2009 Mac Pro I have sitting here ;)

We've been testing with REDCINE-X PRO on Mountain Lion for a while now and things seem fine. We've not seen the Mountain Lion black startup issue yet internally. For people who've missed it, the latest RCX PRO beta also supports the new retine macbook.

Rob
 
Rob,

As I've dug into the black screen issue more, it looks like it affects the 2012 Macbook Pro and the 2010 Macbook Pro the most. With Mountain Lion officially available for a week now a lot of the theories seem to be solidifying on an issue with graphics switching in the GDI with the discrete GPU involved is an nVidia chip. At any rate, the problem looks to be entirely an Apple issue. Many applications are triggering it. I'm not even sure if this thread is warranted because I've been able to trigger it on my Macbook Pro retina by loading just about any resident app on start-up -- RED Watchdog, Growl, etc..

I'm expecting a fix from Apple by monday. ;) If not, they're really dropping the ball on this one.

BTW, loving RC-X 16's retina support!!!
 
Watchdog and Growl are fine on startup and beyond on this end on Retina + TB monitor. Sorry you're having a bad go of it, I've had smooth sailing so far on ML, all programs seem to run just fine.
 
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