Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) support for Maya on the Mac

Important notice for Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software, and prior Maya version, users regarding the latest Apple® Mac OS® X operating system release, version 10.7 “Lion”.

Testing Maya 2012, and prior versions of Maya, on the Mac OS X 10.7 operating system, has identified platform compatibility issues.  

The issues:

• Installing Maya on Mac OS X 10.7 may cause the installer to hang.
• Operating Maya on Mac OS X 10.7 may cause stability issues.
• When submitting a crash report while operating Maya on Mac OS X 10.7, may cause the crash error reporting system to hang.

If you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7, you may encounter these issues. Autodesk recommends that users of Maya 2012, and prior releases of Maya, do not upgrade to the Mac OS X 10.7 until the compatibility issues have been addressed by Autodesk and Apple. Teams from both companies are working closely to resolve these issues and a notification will be issued once the issues have been addressed.

Note: As of this time, Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software has not been certified to run on Mac OS X 10.7. Please consult the certification charts for more information.

Comments

[Michiel]

I find it disappointing that Autodesk chooses not to participate in the OS X betas to make sure Apple releases something that works for us. Please consider acting in a manner that is consistent your expect of your own customers. Log bugs DURING the beta cycle, rather than after.

[Rick Pumphrey]

This totally blows. I'm so tired of OSX issues. I don't blame Autodesk. I think most of the trouble is with Apple. Hello Windows 7.

[Braden]

I made a switch 4 years ago, couldn't be happier. This isn't just with Maya but lots of software. Any time something new comes out in the VFX area, most of the time Mac users miss out on something, or it takes longer for patches and initial release.

[Cory Mogk]

For the record, Autodesk does participate in the betas and provide feedback.

[Michiel]

Cory, it would help if you could clarify this statement. I have heard several times that Autodesk does not test existing versions of Maya against new releases of the OSes for which it has been qualified. It is not clear if Autodesk has now changed that policy or if participating in the beta tests for OS X is limited to yet to be released versions.

For example, your own qualification charts are not updated to reflect compatibility with new releases of OS X. The compatible OS is always what was current (and sometimes not even that), at the time you were testing.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=14959955&linkID=9242259

If that has changed, bravo. If not, then I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

[Cory Mogk]

It depends somewhat on the nature of the release. People with macs tend to be more aggressive with upgrading so we wanted to be prepared for what could happen and this is what we've found. Given these issues we're not comfortable saying 10.7 is certified.

[supra]

This totally blows. I'm so tired of OSX issues. I don't blame Autodesk. I think most of the trouble is with Apple. Hello Windows 7.

[Jeff]

Windows doesn't help, we have Win 7 64-bit and OS X and both have their issues. If you are a Nuke user too the Windows version can be up to 20% slower than the Linux and Mac versions. Considering the origins of Maya (Poweranimator and Wavefront mashed together) and how long the code has been worked on and added onto it is not surprising the issues. I do wish Autodesk would do a feature locked release where they just spend all their efforts optimizing and bug squashing on the various platforms.

[jason]

any update on when maya 2012 will work with Lion? I just tried installing and the installer won't even run. :)

cheers!

[Scott]

I don't know what I did, but Maya 2012 demo version is running on Lion fine.

[brendan]

I saw this workaround in another forum. Just change 2010 to 2012 I would imagine.

Open Terminal
use cd to navigate to your Maya installer
type:
sudo open “Install Maya 2010.app” [enter]

You’ll be prompted for your admin password before the installer pops up and again during the install process.

source: http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/autodesk-maya-2012/mac-os-x-107-lion-support-for-maya-on-the-mac

[jon]

Mac is not about serious computing, its about teenyboppers with Ipods and Ipads. Mac computers blow! I just screwed up and blew major wad on a powermac G5 when I shoulda just got a Dell! I liked mac in the past for stabiliy that's why I bought a mac for doing adobe work and maya. Well it was a mistake! OS 9 was the last real good system! OS 10 has been crap from the beggining and getting worse with each new version! To hell with Mac!

[Jake]

does anyone now when autodesk maya will be available to instal on mac os x10.7 (lion) thanks

[Cretan]

hi.... i also have the same question: when we will be able to install maya 2012 on os x lion without any problems does anybody know?

any news from autodesk how close is this to happen?

[Danny]

Hah, they don't plan on fixing it until 2013 comes out, that's the answer I got from calling customer service

[Cretan]

hmm so is there any version of maya that works well with os x lion? or what? what do you guys suggest?

[Paul T.]

After reading all of this, I just wanted to say that you can actually install Maya 2012 on OS X 10.7 Lion. Just simply choose in the installation options menu not to install the Direct Connect 6.0, as that seems to be the only part acting up. Other than that, Maya 2012 runs smooth as silk on OS X Lion :]

[Snurble]

CONFIRMED - JUST DON'T INSTALL Direct Connect 6

And sorry for shouting, but Paul T. you are a God amongst men.

[ayacalip]

to Snurble and Paul T:

I successfully installed Maya2012 without choosing "Direct Connect 6"
But.... i find that the shutdown time of Lion becomes longer.. so strange!!

much longer

do you have this problem? and do you know how to solve? :(

[ayacalip]

Besides, What if I can install Maya 2011 on Lion or not? Is Maya 2011 better and more stable than Maya 2012?

Anyone knows?

[deysc]

I did as ayacalip said and it has installed just fine. I am going to use it now and see if it is stable or not. What is "Direct Connect 6" for anyways

[Phil]

My experience is I can't blame AD on this. I switched over to Win7 for all my work and to a degree, I'm a un-abashed Apple FanBoy. But..... no NVidia support on MacPros, continuous video driver issues, the absolute complete inability to back out a video driver and quite frankly, ridiculous prices for servers (Apple currently lists a 12 core MacPro base system for the LOW price of $5000. Just got an ASUS 1U rackmount 2x Xeon 2.4Ghx Westmere Hex Core with 24Gb Ram, 1Tb disk for about $2600 from Newegg)

[eXe]

I don't know what all the complaining is about I am running maya 2012 just fine on two different systems. One is an iMac and the other is a mac pro. Both run lion.

Everyone is certainly entitled to his or her opinion - but it does work.

[Tom]

Hi,

So I am using the free education download of Maya 2012 on OSX Lion. I am having some issues with slow response times selecting vertexes in the viewport. I want to make sure I have the latest build of Maya 2012 but I can't tell whether this education version is the latest release? Is it hot fix 4? Or is it Service Pack One? And out of the two I just mentioned which one is the current version? I'm going to assume Service pack one. And I assume autodesk updated the education download page with this latest build. But when I go to "about" maya there is no mention of the version.

Thanks for any insight.

[Eduardo Capanema]

It was really disappointing having all the installation process to tell me my System is too new!!!