[chedda]

I use 2 different machines with maxwell, the silverlight panel works much better on my imac than it does with my mac pro. On the 5,1 12 core mac pro with ati 5780 it is not responsive at all and the window hangs the color picker is really difficult and jumps all around. On the imac 11,1 with ati 4850 it is much better and everything works. Could this be a hardware driver issue ? Both machines have dual screens and in both instances the sketchup & silverlight window are on different displays.

Simon

[JDHill]

It's pretty hard to say; it works nicely on my macbook pro. First, you can try right-clicking in the window, clicking the 'Silverlight' item, and checking which version you have installed. Although written for Silverlight 3, I find slight improvements in how it works when run on Silverlight 4.

If you see no improvement, there is a modification I could have you make, just in case it would help. The UI loads from an .html file in [SU plugins dir]/maxwell/sl; for the Scene Manager, it is mx-scenemanager.html, while for the Maxwell Fire window, it is mx-firewindow.html. If you open those files in a text editor, you'll see that they contain a series of lines which follow the form:

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<param name="name" value="value" />

You can try adding a new one:

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<param name="EnableGPUAcceleration" value="true" />

Depending on whether it helps, or does nothing, you can also try setting it to false:

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<param name="EnableGPUAcceleration" value="false" />

This may have no effect whatsoever, but there is always a possibility -- just let me know what you observe. You should probably make copies of the files before you try this, so that you can easily get back to where you started. If you see no changes, then yes, you may want to try updating your drivers to see if that helps.