Mac mini 2018, ON1 and use of eGPU

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John Kinchin

• November 09, 2022 13:22

Hi

Any one tried the above with the Mac mini 2018?

My mac mini has really slowed down with 2023 version simply because of the internal graphics “card”. I bought a Razor Core X and AMD 6600 graphics card and the difference in Topaz AI is amazing. However I cannot see any difference in ON1 2023. Tried going into applications and changing the program preferences to force the use of the GPU, but all I get is a black screen when I open ON1, it cannot see any files or actually do anything.

Any suggestions?

 

 

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  Brian Lawson Community moderator

  • November 09, 2022 13:35

  There have been posts here in the past about using an eGPU that you might want to check out.

  https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=egpu

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  John Kinchin

  • November 09, 2022 13:47

  Have looked through those as well as consulting my tame Apple engineer in France. He suggested going into the apps folder, highlighting the ON1 app, CMD-I and forcing the app to default to eGPU. This stops ON1 2023 doing anything. I get the outer ON1 window frame and nothing inside. 
  This trick seems to work for a number of graphics/video apps but not ON1.

  Have raised a ticket with ON1 as you would think that it would use a graphics accelerator.

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  John Kinchin

  • November 09, 2022 20:53

  Reply from ON1

  “Hello,
   
  We' have an open  bug ticket for this issue... unfortunately do not have any immediate fixes or solutions.
   
  We've linked your support ticket to our open bug ticket and will keep you posted with any updates as they become available.”

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