There’s been a lot of questions’s asked regarding this as well as issues with Photoshop & Dreamweaver too, so as I’m soon to take delivery of a new PowerMac I decided to check out what gives…
Basically I downloaded ZB’s demo onto a friends Intel Macbook & there were no problems at all except for the limits of the CPU & ram. the same thing with PS & DW too…
Has anyone actually tried running ZB on an Intel Mac or is it just web hype, because so far all is good here…
ZBrush 1.55 will not start up properly on my Intel MacBook Pro 2.0ghz (running 10.4.7). So I cannot even start the activation process to get to ZB2. When I emailed support, they told me that it would not be fixed until ZB2.5 gets released.
If you, or anyone else, can get a retail copy of ZB2 for Mac running on Intel, let me know.
Well like I said the demo runs fine at the moment, but as I’m not getting my Mac for at least 4 weeks I’m holding off switching the licence over…
I read this post while looking for users who might have had issues with Zbrush on their Intel Macs. I bought Zbrush on Wednesday and loaded it to my external drive. It worked great on my G4 733 mhz, until we had a power outage last night and my G4 has apparently died. :mad:
I read somewhere that people were having trouble with Zbrush on their intel Macs. I decided to take a chance and try it on my Intel Mac Mini CoreDuo. I booted up Zbrush clicked on the yellow close button on the intro screen. Spinning rainbow cursor of death. Yikes! Force quit! Expletives! Repeat process. Same deal. :mad:
Then I took a deep breath. Yes, there is a gliche, but the fix is easy…patience.
It takes a while for Zbrush to boot up into Rosetta. Pause after you launch, watch the pretty pictures and wait before clicking the close button on the intro screen. After about thirty seconds ZBrush will be running in emulation. Close the intro screen. Zbrush will be ready to go. When 2.5 is released, it will be a universal binary and operate without the pause; we won’t need Rosetta. 
BTW Zbrush WILL CRASH IF YOU’RE IN A HURRY. WAIT! BE PATIENT! It works great, even faster than my G4 (1.5 GB RAM) on my Intel Mac Mini with only 512 mb of RAM.
Happy Zbrushing! :lol:
I have both an iMac and I just purchased a MacBook Pro along with a copy of ZBrush. I haven’t thought about installing it since everyone keeps telling me that it won’t run on the intels. I’ll try to give it a run. If it works I will let you all know.
I’ve had ZBrush for a couple of weeks now. As far as ZBrush 2 not working on IntelMacs being all “hype”… it’s not. I can get ZB-2 working on occasion on my IntelMac under Rosetta, after a half dozen or dozen force quits ZB2 might run once. It will run for a time while I try modeling something with ZSpheres and then all of sudden stop responding, and I have to force quit the program. If you’ve gotten ZBrush 2 to run on your IntelMac without any problems then good for you. My own experience has been one of ZBrush not responding on the opening screen, and it’s not a matter of being patient. If you see the artwork change on the welcom screen then I can use ZBrush, but I have never been able to use ZBrush 2 on my IntelMac long enough to complete any project.
Interestingly enough, ZB 1.5 runs fine on my machine, but other people can’t even get 1.5 to run. I don’t think this is “hype”. If 2.0 runs for you without a problem then count your lucky stars but for many of us with IntelMacs, ZBrush 2.0 doesn’t work, and if it does it doesn’t work for long.
Here’s looking forward to the Universal Binary release of ZBrush version 2.5 and hoping it is release sooooon!
2ghz Intel CoreDue iMac with 2 gigs ram, 256 video, 500 gig hd.
After I posted the above post, I DID have some problems running Zbrush, but it ran. I was able to work. Zbrush has only crashed when I do something stupid. Like a polygon count that’s to high. When Zbrush hangs on startup, I reboot my mini and it works fine.
I’ve installed 1.55 on my iMac and seems to work fine. I’m a newbie so I can’t do anything advanced enough for it to freeze up. Is v2 pretty much the same as v1.55? I would hate to install v2 and have that freeze up on me.
OK. I fanally gave it a try. It worked at first but when i left and came back it froze on me. So I learned a good trick. Once ZBrush opens up don’t move your mouse and give it a little bit of time. than you can hit ok and it’ll work pretty good. As far as 1.55 goes it seems to run great with no hang ups. Sorry if this isn’t much help. I decided to do you all a favor and this is how it turned out. Hope zbrush comes out with a UB pretty soon. With Silo 2 being UB and Mudbox coming out ZBrush might not have too many fans left.
Rico,
I wouldn’t give up on Zbrush for Silo. Silo2 has a long beta process to fix its bugs before it will see public release. Silo 1.42 is great. I plan on upgrading when 2 is released. Silo 2 can do some very cool things but it doesn’t have the power of Zbrush.
Zbrush still occasionally hangs on startup but rarely crashes. As I said in the post above, restarting seems to help.
Will
Could those wishing to help with the success so far please join me…
Well I have both 1.55 and 2. whatever both working on my Macbook Pro 17.
The 1.55 version seems to work the best.
With the Version 2 I have I have to start the application over several times and then for some reason it just works as it should.
It’s a good job, as I have bought this amazing program and i did need to get through the licensing steps.
I have not found any specific reason as to why V3 needs to be started several times, about the only thing I have seen with any regularity trying to troubleshoot it, is part of the UI seems to fail and once you get the spinning wheel you might as well just force quit and start over. Restarting the system seems to make no difference, V2 is just as likely to boot following a Force quit as it is to fail after a restart.
Any tips welcome, I hope the uBinary is out soon as this is one program I can really use.
Thanks Stuartpa, but I’m trying to get all this Intel stuff onto 1 thread. Please don’t double post on forums.
I have been searching now for what sems like an eternity, every time i think i get close to finding it it usually is ppl saying how cool it is.MEH!! please hook me up with a link or sumthing. contact me at [email protected]
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Dude,
ZBrush 2 is history. As far as I know Pixologic is only offering a 3.1 trial.
This will not run on a Mac, unless you are also running a Windows system on your Macintosh.
Pixologic is creating an OSX version of ZBrush 3.X for the Mac. The release date for this has not been specified. Stay tuned.
I’m not having much luck with ZB3 running in windows on Intel mac. As soon as I feel like I’m actually learning how to do something I get a system crash…oh joy! 
I may just try to see if the ZB2 Mac version will run properly now I guess. Worst thing in the world is system crashes when your trying to learn a new app…makes you constantly wonder if your doing something stupid - but that’s probably not the case I’m just trying to get things going in a low poly form and it crashes.
Interesting JasonLynn, can you provide some particulars. I’ve been running under Windows, Under Parallels for quite some time with very few crashes. In fact I believe it’s less than 4 for the Windows OS. Of course the OS X environment is never affected.
If you could post some details of your system, it might be of help in many ways. 
Well ZB seemed to be working fine earlier this week but last night was the first time I had sat down to try and “create” something. I was working with Primitives (cylinder) every time I had a crash though it was happening randomly and not on a particular instance of doing a specific operation.
I’m running a MacPro 2 x 2 GHz w/ Bootcamp running Win off a dedicated hardrive (no partitions).
OS X 10.4.10
Windows XP SP2
Bootcamp Beta 1.3 or 1.4?
-K
Hey Kerwin,
It’s beta 1.4