Nuke Stability Issues

[sam-madsenca]

I have been using an eval license of Nuke 4.6 for the last few weeks at work to see if its a good option to switch from Shake and I am surprised at how unstable it is. At least once a day (sometimes more) it crashes. My comp isn't that heavy, mostly reads, some cc, beziers, merges, blurs (nothing fancy ie keying, 3d, retiming, etc) and I just wanted to know if anyone is having similar problems.
I have been using Shake for years and I think Nuke has crashed more times in the last few weeks then Shake has on me in total. Is the Mac version just not stable? The crashes occur during all different types of operations, sometimes just scrolling around the DAG, beziers, paint (I know its beta...) disconnecting nodes, etc...
I am not running scripts and haven't added any gizmos

Any thoughts?

OS X 10.4.8
Mac G5 dual 2.3ghz
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB

thanks

b

[goee]

4.6 beta?

Isn't 4.6 the current release?

My advice is that since you are on eval lic get into touch with The Foundry guys to check if there is known a problem with the 4.6.xx release that you got and the hardware you're running.

Nuke sometimes is a bit picky regarding graphics cards and can get you into trouble. Since Apple uses ATI cards I wouldn't be surprised if your problem is in there.

I've always used Nuke on Windows with nVidia Quadro cards and never had much problems.

Cheers,

[thedott]

Hmm, I've got the feeling that we'll hear fixes from The Foundry soon enough;) I for one, love Nuke. I have been able to get it to crash, but way less often than my past compositing app.

Barry Berman
3Dmation Visual Effects

[sam-madsenca]

Thanks for the replies, I really enjoy nuke so if its a hardware thing that would be cool cause I have heard lots of good things about nuke and we would be getting new hardware anyway, so I wanted to see if my problems were isolated, I'll check with the Foundry to see.

Barry you nailed it, v4.7 released today, hopefully I can give it a shot before my eval is up, might help fix a few issues.

thanks again

b

ps- the beta I was refering to was just the Paint tool, if you check the help on the node, it says it is a beta release so I can see how that can be unstable...

[tomc]

no problems here.....
nuke works very well here.... on a windows and linux system....

maybe nuke 4.7 will solve your problems the update fixes some mac-bugs...

cheers,

[leach]

Try Nuke 4.7v3, it is very stable. I use it on Windows 64bit, and even thought it works very good.