Particles systems not working well on Synth for Mac

[loquellega]

Hi everybody! I´m pretty new user of Smode. I have installed the synth version on my new MacBook Pro (I know that Smode is designed to works better on Windows + nvidia) so, everything works fine but, all the compositions that use particles has a very strange behtevour because the particles appears just for a moments after it births, it can’t develop its expansion. Doy you know what kind of thing could be happen? Is it posible do something as a complementary installation to fix it? any idea?

Kind regards!!

[MacBook Pro 2017 Sierra i7 2.9ghz Radeon pro 560 dedicated 4GB - 16GB Ram]

[skinnytorus]

Hi, @loquellega.

Do the particles flicker or they just freeze without movement?
It might be a refresh rate sync issue.

Skinny

[loquellega]

Thanks @Skinnytorus , the refresh rate sync sounds interesting.

I going to attach to video as a reference of the problem, could be the easy way to explain it.

[lamogui]

Looks like a transform feedback issue...
Did you check your graphics card driver ?
Are you sure you running smode on the amd card and the intel (you can check by going in Edit > Preference > System copy paste the content here)

Unfortunately the graphics card selection is not working on mac yet. But maybe your driver can force the usage of the graphics card for specific applications (I know this is possible on laptop with nvidia cards)

[francis]

I think that this discussion has been pursuied on the FB smode users group: