Maya/Mudbox/Autodesk 2014 App Users: Don’t Upgrade to Mavericks Quite Yet

Update: fix for Maya 2014 released: grab it here.

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Just a small warning about OS X Mavericks that should hopefully prevent some unwelcome headaches for people running Autodesk 3D apps on OS X. I am running Mavericks now and did some testing with the betas and, while all previous versions work fine (2013 included) there is a critical issue with Adlm (the license software) and the 2014 Autodesk products that prevent them from activating. It’s fine if you upgrade an existing OS X install that has the programs already activated but it will fail to activate new licenses for Maya 2014 or Mudbox 2014, etc. This has to do with how the FLEX license manager does weird stuff to try and hide licenses from your OS in a partition, from what I understand. It’s a hack to allow demos that time out. Autodesk knows about it and is releasing a fix any day now – I’ll update this post when it’s released.

Otherwise, I would say that, if you are fine with your system now, you might want to wait a few weeks because there are a lot of changes to OpenGL in Mavericks that could affect your system or apps. You get a warning that the Adobe Creative Cloud software isn’t supported yet but Photoshop CC works fine on my end. Anyway, I need Mavericks for Mari and AMD support on OS X. It’s a solid release and has some amazing tech in it – read here for all full rundown and review. I would just be careful before fixing what isn’t broken until the kinks have been worked out. I know that Mari tessellation preview for AMD cards, for example, is in need of a bug fix that’s coming soon as well. I’ve also heard of one Nvidia user having issues with ZBrush but it works fine for me. But I definitely recommend the upgrade. OpenGL 4.1 is finally included and the upgrade is completely free. If you’re on a mobile machine, the extra battery life is great and pros will benefit from better multi-monitor support, SMB 2.0 inclusion and tag metadata, to name a few things. But, if you want to be extra safe and prevent the new OS’ power saving features from tinkering with your graphics apps, consider turning off App Nap in the program’s Get Info panel:

As I mentioned before, the Library folder for your home directory can now be re-shown in the Get Info panel for the Home folder too. If you have applications like Windownaut that depend on Access for Assistive Devices, that has been moved to the Security and Privacy preference pane:

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Anyway, stay tuned for my eventual Xeon E5 V2 Mac Pro 2013 review for Ars Technica. Apple said that machine is coming in December.