CUDA and CS6 Aerender.exe

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Ensure that you have GPU selected for Ray-tracing, in the Prefs>Previews dialog. I believe that this is set to CPU by default.

HTH
RoRK

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[Michael Powers]

Hi Roland,

Thnx. It is selected and works fine when I start a render from the GUI. It is only when I am using AeRender.exe from the command line that it doesn’t work.

Michael Powers
Creative Director, Animation
Crameronline.com

[Walter Soyka]

There is an unsupported workaround [link], but you could get unexpected behavior if more than one instance of aerender tries to use the GPU at the same time.

Walter Soyka
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I see that you’re using the command line render. Such a render, commonly known as ‘headless’, defaults to using the CPU instead of the GPU. Walter’s recommendation is the way to go, to force headless renders to use the GPU.

Cheers
RoRK

Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Singapore and Malaysia
Adobe ACE/ACI (version 7) & Imagineer Systems Inc Approved Mocha Trainer

[Michael Powers]

Thnx Walter. Thank you both for your help.

I’ll give it a whirl. I am interested to see if it is only used with raytraced comps or forces all renders to the GPU.

Michael Powers
Creative Director, Animation
Crameronline.com

[Walter Soyka]

The classic 3D renderer is CPU-only. This setting will only affect raytracing comps.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Harry Hoag]

Hi, I’m trying to get this work around going:
https://www.loopoutcontinue.com/2012/05/faster-raytracing-in-cs6-while-rendering-in-the-background-ymmv

Need to fix this cuda aerender problem but I can’t find the “Debug Database.txt” file? And not sure where the ae pref folder is to create the file if it doesn’t exist. Anyone shed some light on this tantalisingly vague tutorial?