How do I get articulate on my Mac?

Jul 03, 2014

Hello!

I recently accepted my first position in E-Learning, and it is a temp position, so I have to shine from the start.

The organization I am working for will be using Articulate, but I am used to Captivate.  Hence, I wanted to download the free software to my computer; however, I have a mac.

What is the easiest way to get Articulate on my Mac.  I have read something about Parallel, but that seems confusing.

Thanks for your help!!

18 Replies
Ken Steele

We just tried to load Storyline on a Macbook Air and it wouldn't work at all! No program, no matter what size, would open for editing. We would get an error message telling us that we needed to close down other applications...it was basically saying that it didn't have enough memory.

Long story short, the Mac has a Retina display and only 512M of video memory.

Disable the Retina display and re-set the video memory to 1024M. Storyline will work fine after that.

Apparently the Retina resolution took up too much video card memory for the software to work with inside any courses. Once we resolved that, the issue went away.

Steve Flowers

Hey Ken - 

I've been running Storyline on a 13" Macbook Air 2011 version since release without problems. However, I'm using VMWare Fusion and WindowsXP to reduce the footprint. Also have it running on a 15" MPB Retina through Windows 8 on Fusion. Didn't have the issue you indicate above. However, the default resolution didn't work for me. I ended up turning off Use Full Resolution for Retina Display and setting the display resolution to 1440 x 900.

I haven't seen video memory setting in Fusion. Might be a Parallels setting. 

Sonya McChristie

Bootcamp, of course, how could I forget about Bootcamp! The best thing about Bootcamp is that you get full performance out of your hardware, but the advantage of running in a VM is ease of sharing files between the Mac and the PC.

My installation of Storyline on a Windows 7 VM (Parallels) has been behaving somewhat erratically, and I think I have just discovered the cause thanks to this article: http://en-uk.articulate.com/support/storyline/create-edit-and-publish-articulate-storyline-courses-on-your-local-hard-drive I was working on files, and publishing to the desktop of the computer, which Parallels was effectively mapping as a network drive so that the Desktop on Windows was the same as the Desktop on the Mac. As soon as I started publishing to a location on the actual C drive all of my problems were resolved.

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