Hey,
I need to get a license of LW for a new designer, and I was wondering if LW 9.3 was running natively as a UB app on OSX under 10.5.2, or is it still running under Rosetta. The System Requirements page on the NT site doesn’t explicitly mention yeah or nay. It still lists G4/G5 Processors in their specs.
Many thanks in advance to any and all feedback.
I wouldn’t consider myself in the know, but I believe 9.3 is UB. That doesn’t mean safe for Leopard. Don’t know… Not all external plugins have been ported to UB yet, but people are working on it. Newtek’s Mac Support area has a thread following the progress.
I’m still rocking the orig G5. I’m a little scared (and out of funds) to upgrade to Leopard & LW 9.3, not to mention FCP, AFX, & the the rest.
All in good time.
Cheers
Hello,
I usually run on windows but I got a new mac and have been running LW 9.3 on Leopard with no problems. In fact, it seems more stable than it’s Windows counterpart so far. I really enjoy it on the Mac. The ONLY thing I wish would come out soon is FPrime. It won’t run on Leopard at the moment. Worley said they are working on it. Once that is in place I’m golden.
so yes, it’s running very well under Leopard and it’s UB!
actually just to follow on this thread…
do you need a seperate licence key for Mac`s ? i am thinking of switching to mac
cheers
hi,
currently there are two versions of LW 9.3.1 for OSX, one CFM PPC running natively on PPC powermacs only, using all the existent pre-UB plugins, which is officially not supported any longer by newtek, and a newer UB version, which runs natively on both PPC and intel macs, but which needs new versions of mac plugins which are compiled for UB (they have the file ending .plugin). there are some GUI issues running this version under leopard, but afaik those are more cosmetic issues than workflow stoppers.
you can run the CFM PPC version on an intel macpro as well under rosetta emulation, but there are speed and stability restrictions. in this case it’s best to visit newtek forums for dozens of threads about this topic.
you need to use a different license key than for the windows version, but it’s an easy process to get one online by visiting your account at newtek.
hope this helps…
cheers
markus
Thanks for the info. The designer mainly needs LW for modeling, since we’ll be doing our rendering in another package.
We’ll be dual booting, so we have a solution, but I just wanted to stay in OSX for everything if possible.
On a side note, has anyone tried running LW under VMWare Fusion?
Thanks for the tidbits on LW UB. 
I wouldn’t mess with any of that. If you’ve got a dongle (which you should) you can use Lightwave on a Mac or a PC. There’s no question if you have an intel Mac. Use the UB version, period.
hi
i have been running now Lw 9.3.1 under VM fusion for a few weeks now…
its seems to be ok … its never as nativley quick as on the original OS but if you run in
blend mode you dont even see the windows desktop so it looks cool but performance wise
its slightly jerky in Open GL …
cheers
If you want just modeling, I would go with Modo.
As we all know modeling in Modo is far superior than LW. Learning curve from LW to Modo is very minimum. It could be only a day.
I have LW 9 but have not used it for a while because of UB version issue. It was beta and after that Newtek got 9.3 out for us, but need to new totally license. I am waiting to see 9.5 how i will be before installing back again on my main machine.
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is it ???
why is it “far superior” ?
to b honest i think you would be hard pressed to find a better all round modeling program than LW…
sure each package has different attributes , plus and minus`s and to be honest and use a cliche its the artist not the software…
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