On1 photo raw 2018 review
On1 photo raw 2018 review upgrade#
If you cannot upgrade your video card, and you still want to run the software it's new computer time. If you are an ON1 Photo RAW 2018 user and it is not rendering RAW properly, it's not you, it's the machine video card.
On1 photo raw 2018 review pro#
While I would prefer the user flexibility of the old style Windows desktops or the Mac Pro that was a tower instead of a small trashcan, form is beating function all over the place these days with the designers no longer caring about true usability or product lifetime, instead focusing on fashion and prettiness. A number of system board video processors, some less than three years old do not have this level of functionality either, and in the case of anything from Apple, and most any laptop, you cannot upgrade the video card after purchase. For example, no virtual machine system exists that has this rich level of OpenGL support, and some stopped work on this function back before OpenGL 3. This does limit your video card choice to some extent. ON1 does place in the requirements, the ones that no one appears to read, that a GPU capable of handling OpenGL 3.3 at minimum is required and that OpenGL 4.2 support is recommended. Given that some machines are designed with a maximum memory limit of 16GB, such as any Apple laptop, this does not bode well for the future. it does launch on machines with less memory, but runs poorly.
On1 photo raw 2018 review update#
In fact, the update raises the minimum memory for Lightroom to 12GB. The recent 7.2 update does improve things, but only on machines with multi-core CPUs and more than 12GB of RAM. Backward compatibility counts, but not as much as being seen as an industry leader, and particularly when the perceived leader, in this case, Adobe Lightroom, is under attack from customers and competitors for being very slow. He did tell me the that the embedded Intel chipset in the MacBook Air was one example known to not work well. Ryan advised me that ON1 was aware that some computers that were older and had on board video controllers without independent GPUs were throwing a fit with rendering RAW files. I know that the Air with only 4GB of RAM is nearly unusable for any kind of serious editing, but I was concerned that Lightroom Classic CC would run, although slowly and permit editing, whereas ON1 Photo RAW 2018 would not. We exchanged information and I sent him some screenshots from the machine. Admittedly, these are very large files, and I could get ON1 Photo RAW 2018 to handle RAWs from older cameras with less than half the resolution of the 5Ds, but it was still very slow.Īs I have a good relationship with the folks at ON1, I reached out and got a very rapid reply from Ryan, who provides excellent support to customers. I also found that ON1 Photo RAW 2018 would not render in develop any RAW files from my Canon 5Ds. Like many laptops and even desktops, these machines came out of the factory with embedded video, and no option for a dedicated GPU. That machine was horribly low on disk space, so I performed the same test on my own Air of the same vintage. Recently, I found the ON1 Photo RAW 2018 was glacially slow on a client's MacBook Air. This leads me to ON1 Photo RAW 2018 specifically. It's also true that today's software is richer in features than what came before it. In the face of ongoing demands to off the newest latest widget at a lower price, the overall capability, backward compatibility and testing of today's software just isn't as good as it once was. New releases of software are rarely smaller, less demanding of resources, more stringently tested or more efficient. I've spent a good portion of my life in software including time as CTO Americas for the networking innovator Novell, right up until the company was sold. And those together may contribute to a lot of the complaints with newer software. I would add that this may have led makers to spend less time making this information well known, if few are bothering to read it.
All software has some minimum hardware requirements, but I was reminded the other day in a comment by respected photographer Brian Matiash, that since software no longer arrives in packaging, many users do not read the requirements.