Any qualified PC specs?

Is there a list of tested/qualified Fusion systems available anywhere?
Or any known issues with particular GFX cards etc?

Our facility uses HP Z800s (NVIDIA Quadro 4000 / 24GB RAM), and in my endeavor to learn Fusion (7.5), I'm coming across serious (SERIOUSLY) problems with the software:

Frequent crashes (triggered by almost anything)
Nodes suddenly turn red and fail to render (even simple nodes like polygons and text)
Right click context menus don't always appear
Spline and timeline windows don't display tool names in the tree (so I've got no idea what curve I'm looking at)

Those are the common ones anyway. I'm not able find evidence of this happening to other users, so these bugs are probably isolated, though I've tested on several machines, and created several projects.

Can anyone offer any advice?

The Fusion manual has some baseline requirements for computer builds on page 13.

Thanks for the reply,
The Z800s easily meet the baseline requirements, so I was just wondering if there were specific known issues with certain configurations... I'm trying to work out why Fusion is performing so poorly on our machines!

Can you create a test comp using only internal tools as source material and provide me the render times.

I want to try the same comp for comparison. Use blurs, lens defocus, some 3D gpu render and 3D software renders in the comp.

Thanks

I'm not aware of any specific troubles caused by certain systems/builds at this time.

i running a Z800 too (but with the quadro3800) and dont have any of your problems so far

I'm having the same problem with certain nodes, especially video loaders going red and not rendering, but I've loaded videos in the past so I don't know what the issue is. I'm running Nvidia Geforce GT 525M with DirectX 11 and 1GB dedicated video memory and 3.8GB graphics memory. I was using Fusion 7.5 and just checked and found the 7.6 update. I installed it hoping it would clear the problem but the red nodes are still there and there's been nothing I've been able to do to fix them.

Looks like somewhat is blocking eyeonscript.exe (antiviruses, firewalls). Turn them off just for a little test.

I'm having the same problem with certain nodes, especially video loaders going red and not rendering, but I've loaded videos in the past so I don't know what the issue is. I'm running Nvidia Geforce GT 525M with DirectX 11 and 1GB dedicated video memory and 3.8GB graphics memory. I was using Fusion 7.5 and just checked and found the 7.6 update. I installed it hoping it would clear the problem but the red nodes are still there and there's been nothing I've been able to do to fix them.

Geforce GT 525M uses NVIDIA optimus - that means that depending on the application it either uses the INTEL graphics chip or NVIDIA.
You need to make sure Fusion runs with the NVIDIA option.

In the NVIDIA Control Panel -> 3D Settings -> Manage 3D Settings -> 1. Choose Fusion as app.
2. Select High-Performance NVIDIA processor.

Thanks for the reply,
The Z800s easily meet the baseline requirements, so I was just wondering if there were specific known issues with certain configurations... I'm trying to work out why Fusion is performing so poorly on our machines!

If the Anti-Virus/Firewall is not the issue as suggested I'd make sure to test different NVIDIA drivers.
Usually latest is best - but in some rare cases you should roll back to an older one.

But before trying different drivers try this:
In the NVIDIA Control Panel try to find a 3D Setting called:
Threaded optimization - Turn it off

This may help.