Houdini on Mac Pro

Sonive got houdini installed on big sur 11.4 but openCL isnt working at all not cpu nor gpu.

Also bootcamp just fails to install windows … eh is anybody working with houdini under macOS? does vellum work for you ? I am at a compelte loss as why this isnt working.

I tried Houdini on Mac for a little bit. Switched over to Linux Mint. The performance gains are just too crazy. 20-30 percent. I even have one of my Houdini’s running on a PC and I like that over Mac. Less crashing in sims. I am using a threadripper.

Yeah i have used Houdini on macOS Catalina for a long time. Works ok, but is slow. Also on Fedora. Works really well.

yea i found it to be completely useless on macos as well… just wow , cant get opencl to work in 18.5 but work in 18.0 … I just switched back to anproper computer with nvidia gpu … this mac i am not impressed

Works on 18.5 here, but not well. Funny, because positive quotes from sidefx were part of Apple’s promotion of the new Mac pro

weird ist just doesnt work at all on bug sur, only uses cpu then crashes with errors, on 18.0 it uses gpu as expected but its still slow … meh.