in the real world its much much more complex.Originally Posted by Mr_P
people dont stick to any system, or spec.
people install all sorts of things in all sorts of combinations.
I know because when i request system profiles from people - what is returned is a range of setups even from a single gig or the same rental company - ( but often there are cross-hire systems - and they are never the same .)
there are hundreds and hundreds of these systems out there.
this stuff has been on sales for 2 years.
and started out with hardware that was quite different from now.
i do have a basic benchmark for testing - but its useless for dealing with the range of hardware out there.
for example : the blackmagic drivers change the whole time ( and have started to affect some performance things ).
there are different opengl bugs - in different combinations with different graphics cards and different drivers.
also the new hardware which uses pci-express and is not compatible with 10.3.x introduces a new set of problems.
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aside from this - there really are a significant number of hardware failures that crop up which confuse the whole thing.
computers get the crap beaten out of them on the road doing shows.
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having said all this - there are only a handful of issues that crop up in my software.
but they are the tricky ones that change when apple changes the os.
there is some glitching - but it comes and goes - and changes in the os.
i try to work around them, or find ways - but i cant always guarantee i find everything - which is why i need your cooperation.