I’m having all sorts of display problems - images being split and shadowed, parts of images remaining when tool moved, textures not being automatically applied. I’m guessing here - since I have limited technical knowledge - that I need an upgrade. My graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT - came with my Mac Pro1.1 Dual-Core Intel Xeon. I have 5 GB of memory. I’m using a venerable Apple Cinema LCD - the original one - 23" I think.
Am I right in my diagnosis and can anyone make a suggestion for what I should be looking for? A new graphics card? A new monitor? Some sanity?
Thank you.
SS
I think your seeing some things that are endemic to the Mac release of Zbrush and not necessarily the graphics card.
Be careful to maintain the default proportions of the canvas–non proportional scaling of ZB’s canvas can cause some of the issues you’re describing. If possible post some screen grabs of anomalies you’re seeing.
Based on what you’re reporting, I would not conclude the graphics card is an issue unless you have some other apps that are playing up as well.
HTH,
-K
I’m afraid it sounds like you are seeing some of the bugs of the 3.12 release. Zbrush does not make any use of your graphics card last I knew. Its all your systems ram. Only Zmapper, which is not available for mac 
has some openGL code and therefore a polycount limit much lower than other parts of the app.
I found the canvas bugs you describe immediately also, and yes the only way around it is to not change your documents proportions.
Kerwin and spaz8 - I had been following a tutorial and the next to last step involved changing the document size - then things began to fall apart and disappear. You have saved me money and I can retain my sanity!
Is there a discussion somewhere that I can check for other bugs? I’m just learning ZBrush and when the unexpected happens, I don’t know if it is me, my computer setup, the program or the occasional random perversity of the universe.
Thank you!
SS
You can certainly resize your document. Just don’t turn off the Document>Pro switch at this time. As long as the dimensions remain proportional, there’s no problem.
OK.
Thank you, Aurick.