[Stinkie7000]

First of all, I know virtually about this kind of thing. So this might be a daft question.

I have an 8 core Mac Pro with 4 Gb of ram. I noticed I can only render this big, otherwise Maxwell quits. This, I think, is due to insufficient ram. Right?

Now, I'm considering getting extra ram (so I'd end up with a total of 8 Gb). I was wondering, though, if both Maxwell and Leopard can actually utilize the added memory.

I don't mind the money - I'd just like to get some value for it.

[jespi]

Leopard is 64bit platform, that means your system will utilize all the memory incremented. But maxwell is a bit different within macOsx, the stander is 32 bit platform, that mean you have a limit of 4 Gig. But you can use a pre release which is called 64 bits technology preview, with this version you can run maxwell in 64 bit. More info here http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=25689

Hope that help.

[Stinkie7000]

Thanks for the info!

[Daniel Hruby]

more ram is better if you want to have other applications open. Your host application + OSX + MXCL + MXST + Photoshop +Mail + Safari etc. will add up to at least 4GB. Not to mention you can have multiple copies of MXCL running if you want a couple renderings done simultaneously.