Hi there
I'm experiencing some stability issues after the recent update to 3.1.3
Compared to the previous version, Aperture now seems very instable when brushing in adjustments. Especially when using the feather brush, the program grinds to a halt and eventually crashes completely. This does even happen while working on smaller RAW files from a Point and Shoot with a reasonable brush size of around 50-100 pixel. In addition to that, I noticed that the picture switches back and forth between normal display and a slightly optimised version much more aggressively than in version 3.1.2 Although this does seem to improve the performance while brushing, it makes working accurately a bit of a problem. I'm also suspecting that this new behaviour might be the reason for the increased instability. This update seems to have made some things worse in brushing-land.
Does anyone else experience similar issues? I'm working on a MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz with 4GB of RAM.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Many thanks
Tom
Tom,
I haven’t. I posted a tweet asking others to come by and respond if they’re seeing what you’re reporting!
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Lion/3.1.3: No such problems seen, but only worked shortly with this.
Snow Leopard/3.1.3: No such problem seen.
Hi Joseph
I did some more tests. The brushing itself is fine. It starts to happen when you have a lot of active adjustments and you start to hit the memory limits of your machine. Especially when you run out of free memory allocated to graphics, Aperture becomes quite unstable and slow. At least under those circumstances it seems to crash more often than the previous version. Especially when processing the large-ish files from my 7D. As I ‘just’ have 4GB of RAM in my MacBook Pro and Aperture is very hungry, I’m hitting those limits regularly.
I wanted to find out if somebody else is experiencing similar issues, which doesn’t seem to be the case. I’m sorry if I posted a bit too hastily. It might be specific to my setup.
Many thanks for your help and tweeting about this!
Tom
No worries Tom… all observations are valid, even hasty ones ;)
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Curious…..do you use the faster graphic card in your mbp ? As i also endures slow loading and such problems, i wonder if Lion´s implementation of the second graphic card really play well ?
I do experience this big time. any help on how to manage this will greatly be appreciated