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p.1 #1 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

I am running, or I should say attempting to, Capture NX updated to 1.3.4 on an Intel iMac with OSX 10.5.5 and its just excrutiatingly slow... I have contacted Nikon tech support but they are just scratching their heads and cannot explain what's going on. I worked as tech support for a 3D graphics software development company that specialized in Mac products, so I think I know what I'm doing. I tried NX2 and it flies. Anyone else experiencing this? Any tips or suggestions other that upgrading to NX2?

Oct 15, 2008 at 06:56 PM

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p.1 #2 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

NX2 is faster.

Oct 15, 2008 at 09:59 PM

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p.1 #3 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

tell me something I don't already know...

Oct 15, 2008 at 10:25 PM

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p.1 #4 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

And why do you wanna run NX 1.3.4 when there is NX2?

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Oct 15, 2008 at 11:38 PM

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p.1 #5 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

xof711 wrote:
And why do you wanna run NX 1.3.4 when there is NX2?

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probably doesnt want to pay the extra money

Oct 15, 2008 at 11:51 PM

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p.1 #6 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

Etienne Otero wrote:
I am running, or I should say attempting to, Capture NX updated to 1.3.4 on an Intel iMac with OSX 10.5.5 and its just excrutiatingly slow... I have contacted Nikon tech support but they are just scratching their heads and cannot explain what's going on. I worked as tech support for a 3D graphics software development company that specialized in Mac products, so I think I know what I'm doing. I tried NX2 and it flies. Anyone else experiencing this? Any tips or suggestions other that upgrading to NX2?

did you look with iStat at the CPU load and memory usage?

Oct 16, 2008 at 02:32 AM

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p.1 #7 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

i found 1.3.3 faster. are you also using view nx? much quicker for sorting.

turn off noise reduction too.

Oct 16, 2008 at 05:48 AM

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p.1 #8 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

linathael wrote:
did you look with iStat at the CPU load and memory usage?

yes and both are skyrocketing as soon as any dialogue is invoked after opening a *.NEF image file.

louis fusco wrote:
i found 1.3.3 faster. are you also using view nx? much quicker for sorting.

turn off noise reduction too.

I only shoot NEF and NR is off in the camera settings as well as in Capture NX.

Oct 16, 2008 at 07:13 AM

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p.1 #9 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

i'm using the original intel imac 20'' maxed out. my d2h files took about 4 sec to render in view nx while my d200 files only 1 sec.

check out this

http://www.luminescentphoto.com/

includes tips on optimisation.

Oct 16, 2008 at 07:21 AM

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p.1 #10 · Intel iMac OSX 10.5.5 and Capture NX

well... I figured it out. It appears that having the trial version of NX2 installed conflicted with the patching of the 1.3.4 upgrade. After uninstalling everything, deleting preferences and cache files, reinstalling, patching, assigning the local HD as temporary file location, it now works quite faster. We'll see how long this will last if the memory leak has not been addressed.

Oct 16, 2008 at 06:50 PM


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