Moho 12 Pro - iMac Pro 3.2ghz SLOW

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Re: Moho 12 Pro - iMac Pro 3.2ghz SLOW

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With the orphaned points, I left some points used for shading in the document whilst the rest of the shape they belonged to was deleted. The slowdown caused was extreme. I have been sending things back and forth to support for a while but it looks like it's just a rare occurrence. Good to keep in mind if you get a file that almost freezes Moho 12/13 (freezing for 30 seconds or more)

Reading on, it sounds like this is a Mac 5K issue. Would be interesting to see if high resolution effects windows. I have a 2015 5k iMac and moho crawls. I have been lowering the resolution at times to get round this (setting the low res mode for Moho is a great idea!)

I thought that this short coming would be down to the tiny amount of vram and the way the 5k screen 'magnifies' a 2k one but if newer Macs - even an iMac pro have the same issue this is not good news. I don't really see issues with other apps in the same way. Motion, Final Cut or Lightwave seem to work just as well in higher resolutions

Does hardware acceleration do anything on a mac? Doesn't seem to make any difference. I can see it does on windows
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Re: Moho 12 Pro - iMac Pro 3.2ghz SLOW

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Regarding orphaned points:

This is a source of trouble since ages ago in lots of software. Single points, or just 2 points on top of each other, or some points in very small distance to each other, all cause trouble. I remember the old Quark XPress choking on those, RIPs the same, and of course (natrurally, I should say) cutting plotters don't like this.

Some programs seem to run a filter before rendering or exporting which catches these occurence and deletes some or all points without changing the resulting image.

Could a script detect orphaned points in Moho, so we could clean up files on the go?
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Re: Moho 12 Pro - iMac Pro 3.2ghz SLOW

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I suggested that they run a check for stray points but I guess once orphaned it's hard to detect if they should be part of another object or not. Support did get back to me several times on this. I sent them the file with the problem so they could see the issues. No fix though
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Re: Moho 12 Pro - iMac Pro 3.2ghz SLOW

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rayamc wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:58 pm Does hardware acceleration do anything on a mac? Doesn't seem to make any difference. I can see it does on windows
Since Macs generally use AMD graphics cards, which don't fully support OpenGL, it might not make a difference on some Macs.
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