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AFMG Network Forum Index -> EASE 5 -> Acousteer on Parallels    View previous topic :: View next topic  Acousteer on Parallels Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:59 am dub Member   Joined: 19 Feb 2024 Posts: 10 Any word/update/guidance on if/when Acousteer will work/be supported on Parallels/VM's? Running on a current/stout M3 Macbook Pro with plenty of horsepower. Spoken with other users on beefy machines with the same issues. Heard through the grapevine Stefan might make a statement on it/that it was a known issue? Excited to use this feature but it's untenable currently... Thanks AFMG team! _________________ Warren Davis IG - warrendotdavis Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 2:58 am dub Member   Joined: 19 Feb 2024 Posts: 10 For context I timed it and it takes nearly 5 minutes to run an Acousteer calculation after every edit/adjustment on this design → https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kmlg62sibxsnsq6rgvpl6/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-8.54.36-PM.png?rlkey=gir4znf452tvfgu5sqjrww33z&st=h19uodw6&dl=0 _________________ Warren Davis IG - warrendotdavis Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:18 pm brianl Member   Joined: 24 May 2024 Posts: 1 Location: USA I would love to see a solution for this as well! I have a new M4 MacBook Pro and can't use GPU acceleration. I don't really want to have another computer just for EASE. Please help those of us that use Parallels! _________________ EASE 5 SE Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:37 am AFMG Frank Siegmann Member   Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 261 Dear All, Thank you for your interest in the Acousteer real-time engine. We appreciate our EASE users a lot, both on MS Windows PC as well as on Apple Mac using Parallels Desktop. Acousteer real-time simulation is based on a hybrid CPU/GPU engine that requires both components to be reasonably fast. On PC-based systems almost all Nvidia, AMD and Intel-based GPUs can be used. That also applies to virtualized operating systems like VMware. However, on Mac-based systems the Parallels virtualization platform does not support any GPU functionality. Also, the underlying Apple operating system supports only the proprietary Metal API and neither OpenCL nor CUDA. Both of these issues are publicly acknowledged and indeed represent an obstacle for software solutions like ours and end users like you. Because of these technical issues, at the moment Acousteer is unfortunately not available on Parallels Desktop at its design speed. We are investigating possible solutions and workarounds but these may be difficult to establish or may become available only mid-term. More technical details are listed in the EASE 5 system requirements: https://www.afmg.eu/en/ease-software-hardware-requirements Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:00 pm dub Member   Joined: 19 Feb 2024 Posts: 10 Thanks Frank! I broke down and purchased my first windows machine in nearly 25 years... I'm hopeful the current and future proposed performance improvements will justify the purchase as I'm sure resources will be primarily devoted to bringing the other functions into the main program vs. solving Parallels issues. _________________ Warren Davis IG - warrendotdavis AFMG Network Forum Index -> EASE 5 You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum All times are GMT   Page 1 of 1   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First  Select a forum General----------------Board RulesForum Announcements Software Forums----------------EASE 5EASE 4EASE EvacAFMG EASERAAFMG SysTuneAFMG SoundFlowAFMG ReflexEASE FocusEASE AddressSDK for GLL PLug-in API   Powered by phpBB © 2001-2003 phpBB Group Theme created by Vjacheslav Trushkin Variation by CodeWeavers and AFMG