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I am in VB on a Mac OSX 10.6, 2.26Ghz MacBook (not pro). VB is running XP SP3 (which I think only uses one of the two CPU cores). Under 7 seconds from starting the program to getting the main program window, then after I select eeschema it is just over 9 seconds before the schematic comes up (this happens to be a fairly small design). Other stuff is running at the same time, but nothing crazy. I wouldn't call that wildly fast, but for my poor overworked MacBook, it seems OK. -J From: software_hardware_engineer To: kicad-users@... Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:33 AM Subject: [kicad-users] Re: problems running on Windows XP and Mac OS X
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I found a place in Fusion to enable the video accelerator, the 3D view now works with no issues.
All the Kicad applications still load very slowly. I am trying to find out if my anti-virus software is causing this. Currently am using Ad-Aware Pro. Thank you for the help --- In kicad-users@..., Ivica Kvasina wrote: > > I cannot speak for Mac but I can verify that it all works??just fine on XP inside VirtualBox (it??is free and available for Mac too). > The only slow part is starting VM itself (~25sec measured on my puny G570, it is faster on my desktop).?? > Once VM with XP is loaded I see little if any difference in KiCad performance between VM and native OS. > Everything is presented correctly, and 3D view is clean and smooth as it gets, same goes for Wings3D. > Perhaps your VM is not set correctly. How much resources you have assigned to it? > VMWare should also addon to accelerate video performance.??Did you install it? > > I don't use it much so I gave it generous 512Mb of RAM, video memory set to 32Mb,?? > with 2D and 3D acceleration enabled (requires installing VirtualBox Guest additions) and > virtual HDD still has 2.5Gb free. > > > Good Luck > > > ________________________________ > From: software_hardware_engineer > To: kicad-users@... > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:31:54 PM > Subject: [kicad-users] problems running on Windows XP and Mac OS X > > > ?? > I am new to Kicad, so hopefully the following issues are user error. > > I use a Macbook Pro 17 with Snow Leopard, and Windows XP sp3 running in a VMWare Fusion virtual machine. > I have Kicad build 3256 on Windows, 3411 on the Mac. > > On the Mac version: > Eschema does not render the drawing properly, traces and components end up in seemingly random places that are not where I put them. > > In WinXP: > Kicad, and all its launched tools take a long time to start, up to 2 minutes at times. Once started they run smoothly with no notable delays. > PCBnew 3D view crashes windows, specifically windows locks up in a manner that requires re-booting. > Wings 3D (ver 1.4.1) appears to work with no problems. > > Kicad seems to be a very good tool, I appreciate the time and work that created it. > > Thanks for any help on the issues. > |
