From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au  Wed Feb 27 14:20:03 2019
From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 03:20:03 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates 3D volume issue on macOS Mojave
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Hi all,

If you use 3D volumes (3D scalar fields) in GPlates on macOS and have not yet upgraded to Mojave (10.14.3) you may want to reconsider for now.

Currently 3D volumes render incorrectly and then crash in the graphics driver on some Macs. We are currently looking into it.

So far it has happened on Macs with AMD graphics, specifically AMD Radeon Pro 460. Whereas my Mac, with Intel Iris Plus 640, works fine.

Note that disabling automatic GPU switching doesn't help since this always uses the discrete graphics (eg, AMD) and not the integrated graphics (eg, Intel HD).

Regards,
John
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From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au  Wed Feb 27 23:04:01 2019
From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:04:01 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates 3D volume issue on macOS Mojave
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Just to clarify, the problem is on Mojave (10.14). High Sierra (10.13) and older are fine.

And the problem includes 'importing' volumes - I've just been informed that this resulted in a crash (and, on one occasion, caused a hard restart of the machine) on 10.14.2.

Regards,
John

From: GPlates-discuss <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au> On Behalf Of John Cannon
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Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates 3D volume issue on macOS Mojave

Hi all,

If you use 3D volumes (3D scalar fields) in GPlates on macOS and have not yet upgraded to Mojave (10.14.3) you may want to reconsider for now.

Currently 3D volumes render incorrectly and then crash in the graphics driver on some Macs. We are currently looking into it.

So far it has happened on Macs with AMD graphics, specifically AMD Radeon Pro 460. Whereas my Mac, with Intel Iris Plus 640, works fine.

Note that disabling automatic GPU switching doesn't help since this always uses the discrete graphics (eg, AMD) and not the integrated graphics (eg, Intel HD).

Regards,
John
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