Please post your feedback here!

[76561198133209712]

Please post your feedback about MARI indie as new discussion threads on this forum. We look forward to hearing what you think.

[ArsMod]

Let me start by saying I'm a first time Steam user so I only own MARI Indie on Steam. I've used the full version of MARI for the last few months in school and just recently purchased the Indie version. The limitations don't bother me so I've been very happy with the application and what it can do.

Previously, I used it on my iMac and was aware of the performance limitations of the 1GB of vram so it didn't cause me any issues. But as I am moving towards a professional career in the 3d industry I knew I needed to be able to make full use of MARI and doing so required a hardware upgrade. I purchased the new Mac Pro, fully loaded, expecting MARI to be very fluid but found it's performance to be quite disappointing. The UI is terribly slow, the viewport has tremendous drop in frame rate and using a custom shader with a spec and bump map almost brings the app and my system to a crawl.

As I said before, as a first time Steam user, I don't know if this is a MARI or Steam issue but it is certainly not usable currently. I've read about other Steam users having lag issues in games so I don't know if it's a similar situation or not. My hope is that there is a simple setting that will relieve this performance bottleneck so I can use MARI very fluidly as I'm sure The Foundry intended.

Mac Pro
12 Core CPU
64 GB Ram
Dual D700
1GB SSD