Qualification of Maya 4.5 for Mac OS X

• A three button mouse is strongly recommended.
• At least 512 MB of RAM is required.
• It may be possible to successfully use Maya with a non-qualified or partially qualified configuration, but support and maintenance programs will be subject to the Alias|Wavefront Support services guidelines.
• The configurations shown are subject to change, and additional qualified configurations may be added after qualification testing has been carried out.
• Where Graphics Controllers are configurable, you must have at least 32MB of video memory (VRAM). Due to the differences in the manner in which hardware vendors approach display memory, we suggest that you consult your hardware vendor to ensure that your configuration will support your required resolution. (See ATI Rage 128 Mobility Limitations)
• The operating system specified is the OS used for the qualification process. While it may be possible to use Maya successfully on earlier or later versions of Mac OS X, Alias|Wavefront cannot guarantee the performance or behavior.
• We do not recommend saving data directly from Maya to NFS or Novell Netware or other remote mounted file systems. We have received several reports of data corruption when saving in this method although we have been unable to reproduce this. We strongly recommend that you save the files locally and then copy the data to the mounted storage system.
• When texture images are stored on systems remote from the rendering process; depending on network speed, specifications and load it is possible that the renderer may be unable to access a texture file on demand and may 'drop' individual textures on a frame by frame basis. To reduce this occurrence store textures on a system local to the rendering process.
• Due to the many Operating System and Architecture differences between the supported platforms, you should be aware that the results of some operations will differ on different platforms. This is most noticeable with operations which iterate to reach their results - leading to cumulatively large difference - e.g. dynamics, some rendering. Be aware that that you may not be able to "mix and match" renderings on different platforms.
• Standard pen pressure sensitivity with Wacom tablets is now supported. However, Wacom mice which are used with tablets have significant limitations and cannot be fully integrated with standard navigation in Maya. We recommend using a standard mouse with Maya, and limiting pen usage to Maya's Paint Effects and Sculpting tools. Alias|Wavefront is working with Wacom to achieve full support for Wacom products.
• Apple systems can be run in Dual Monitor configuration in one of two ways - either a single graphics card which supports dual output (e.g. nVidia GeForce 4 Ti or ATI Radeon 9000), or by using a second PCI based graphics card for the second display.
  Limitation: Apple systems running Mac OS X 10.2.x dual monitors, with the support for the second monitor provided by a PCI graphics card will kernel panic when running Maya. We are working with Apple to resolve the system driver problem causing this, but currently we have no workaround.

Select "About this Mac" in the Apple menu. The general OS version number will be just below the logo e.g. Version 10.2.
To find the precise build number, click the version text - it will change to the build number e.g. Build 6C115. (Occasionally Apple will release slightly different Versions with the same version number but which may behave differently. It may only be possible to identify the OS version by the build number.)

In a finder window, navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/(vendor extension file). With this file selected, choose File -> Info to view the version information.

For example, to determine the version of the video driver installed for the ATI Radeon 8500, one would select the /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeon8500.kext file and then choose File -> Info.