freespark

Thanks so much for the reply twod!! Somehow I should have been more specific and explained that I am on a MacBook Pro late 2009 series. I would have loved to hear your take on the Nvidia 9400M/9600GT for MacBook Pros. Surely, in your line of work you guys must strictly work on the Mac Pro's instead of the Mac Book Pro. But, the reason I pulled the trigger on Mac's flagship laptop is because it was important that I am mobile. Have you worked on Mac Book Pros, and if so, what is your take on them? I need to know so that I can make my next purchase. And, again as you may already know, there were no options to opt for a better graphics card on Mac's so called flagship laptop. Again, thanks for the reply. And, it only felt like this took a long time to fix because a lot of us just want to work.. I've been following Houdini since version 4 and it is one amazing piece of software and it is worth the wait. I just wish Apple and Nvidia would stop with all the politics and just build awesome machines.

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Just out of curiosity, are you guys at liberty to discuss what was causing the Nvidia/Mac Book Pro flickering issue? The reason I'm asking is because Macs are pretty stable in terms of architecture, however, I was pretty disappointed that when configuring my custom late 2009 machine to pretty much run Houdini, there were no options to choose a better graphics card, and albeit from a different manufacturer, i.e ATI. I know there are many people that are partial to Nvidia, but I would love to know if this was resolved by simply utilizing less memory from the actual graphics card, or was it simply a software issue.

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P.S. Thank you SESI for the quick resolution in this.

I resolved this by simply going to the folder and adding Adminstrator and everyone Read and Write access to the file. Afterwards, all was smooth sailing!!

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