Loading...
> >

My video card is not working!

Super cheese sandwichSuper cheese sandwich Posts: 633
edited May 2016 in The Commons

*Update: I have noticed that If I try to render heavy scenes the video card doesn't work. Is this common? How can I solve it If it's a problem?

*I use Iray with a Msi 970 16 gb ram I7 4790

Thanks!

Post edited by Super cheese sandwich on

Comments

  • joseftjoseft Posts: 310

    To render using the video card on iRay, the scene you are trying to render needs to fit inside your video card's VRAM. your video card has 4gb of Vram, so if its a reasonably large scene with high quality textures and mutliple subdivision levels, it may take more than 4gb of Vram.

    When you hit this limitation, iRay will not use the video card. it will drop back to CPU only, utlising your system ram instead

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited May 2016

    Also, the CUDA compute level for the card must be high enough.  For instance, my Quadro FX-5800 with 4GB of VRAM will not activate for Iray because the CUDA level isn't high enough.

    Kendall

    Post edited by Kendall Sears on
  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited May 2016
    oops wrong button.
    Post edited by Kendall Sears on
  • Super cheese sandwichSuper cheese sandwich Posts: 633

    Thanks!

  • middle_watchmiddle_watch Posts: 69

    Damn, explains why my FX-5800 is just a lump when using DAZ,  and I went to the trouble of water cooling it as I thought it would be working flat out! Thanks

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    This thread is six years old, whatever was needed back then has doubled or tripled since.

Sign In or Register to comment.