Hi Logik! 
It’s another good day - Flame Family 2025.2 is here!
Highlights include :
Enjoy!
This one is worth it all.
The performance of Workspaces and Shared Libraries backups has been improved by using a multi-threaded Zstandard (Zstd) compression instead of Gzip compression, which is approximately 7 times faster.
Any specific advantages of Rocky 8.10 over 8.7 other than the number? Worth bothering?
So grateful for this morph tool, has been my near the top of my wishes for flame features for years.
Woo hoo!! Congrats team!
This is exciting. We are looking at getting a Mac system. Our first with the Apple silicon and I notice that the Autodesk recommended requirements are quite low, 64GB.
Do we need to pack it out with all of the RAM and get the extra graphics as well 
This will be an extra Flame system for our facility. Not a single machine for a sole operator. So what would you suggest?
YES I think you should. From what I understand Flame devides your gpu into 2 when you use bg reacter. It’s working very well on my fully specd m2 ultra to the point where I send every render to it and move onto the next task. So cool.
I’m running it on a maxed out MacStudio and it runs soooo smooth. You’ll be surprised. BG Rendering on Mac works really well and since it can use all memory as ‘vram’ … get as much of it as you can. Rendering things in BG is now default for me. Actually saving me time.
hey Ton, can you elaborate? which tasks specifically have you found to run in BG that help? TL rendering? TW rendering?
All of the above? timeline, timewarps… batch, bfx… send it to bg and move on to the next. … On my Linux box* (rtxA5000) if I send a batch setup to BG I notice the performance hit (that’s why I didn’t use it a lot in the past), on Mac far less… The one thing macOS is still quite a bit slower at at this moment is inference and other ML related stuff. I guess it’s a matter of time before that moves closer to Linux speeds.
*it’s a few years old dell 7920 so that might not help… 
Has anyone else done the upgrade from 8.7 to 8.10?
Did today, but not without a hiccup which may be bug in the script? Or maybe I read the instructions too fast.
Update script finished and said to reboot and then install DKU (forgot to screenshot).
After reboot system failed to switch graphics mode and was stuck on blinking text cursor.
Ended up booting the old 8.7 kernel which worked, installed DKU which then re-triggered the startup task to install the NVidia driver, which happened on the next boot to 8.10 and all is good now.
Seems like the DKU should have been installed before reboot or the script should have configured that graphics driver differently, since it kept the nuveau driver supression.
I don’t know how that script works, but when you update the kernel manually (as I do) you can get yourself out of trouble by booting into single user mode, navigating to the DKU folder that has the Nvidia driver you want, something like /opt/Autodesk/DKU/X.XX/bin/system_rpm/
It will fail and complain that there is already a driver running, so pull the old kernel module out:
# lsmod|grep -i nvidia That should show you the loaded modules. The chief offender is nvidia_drm.ko. Remove that with
# modprobe -r nvidia_drm and it will nix all of them. NOW you can run
./NVIDIA_yada-yada.run and it will build against your running kernel.
Then either reboot or just # su → $ startx .
Good to know.
Getting into single user mode was next on my list.
Highly advised not to update the kernel manually
Use the official iso here if you need to update a Flame workstation, or the Easy Upgrade script if it is available. Manual update or yum/dnf update is a one-way ticket to Bummersville, USA.
I’ve done it many times, not an issue for me. You can exclude packages if you need to.
By and large, I suppose that is good advice, though 
But why?
Beak-ause he can…
I’ll allow it 
Works so good love it… Thanks Dev-Team.
BUT:
if i right click and say create BFX it only renders in foreground.
I can stop it and right click and say render again ok thats a solution but is there an automatic render for create BFX in background?