Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:20 am
I have had only 3 crashes in 7 weeks using 16.2.3, but this is on Mac OSX 10.15.6 and the 2019 Mac Pro. We've done all kinds of HD, 2K, and 4K sessions and stressed it to the hilt with 20-30-40 nodes on every clip on occasion. It did slow down when we threw Neat Video at it some weeks ago, but all it did was slow down and run hot for a few hours -- zero crashes. When we did have crashes (very rarely), they could well be because of OS and I/O issues, not Resolve per se.
I don't dispute that real crashes do happen in some cases, but there are a lot of moving parts with Windows and Linux workstations, particularly with drivers, minor OS updates, different hardware, and so on. We don't run anything in the background on our Resolve system and try to do as little as possible on it except for Resolve. I will occasionally run Premiere or Avid without Resolve running, but even that's pretty rare. We have 256GB of RAM, so the system "should" be able to handle it, but I try to be as cautious as possible.
marc wielage, csi • VP/color & workflow • chroma | hollywood