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Ray-Tracing 3D with (older) ATI-card?
Hi there,
At work we have two Mac-systems. Both are getting on the older side, but one of them is a bit more powerful than the other.
Now… On the not-so powerful system, Ray-Tracing works well. It has a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT card.
On the more powerful system, I just get the “Out of paged mapped memory for ray tracer” message.
That system has got ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT…
I’ve tried to change CUDA-drivers on the system but of no avail.
I’d really like the 8 Gb RAM that the better system has, vs the only 4 on the other.
I want Ray-Traced in order to create some extruded text-graphics in AE.
Any help is appreciated!
Kind Regards,
Johan
PS I should edit that, yes, we are looking forward to updating our systems once Apple releases their next Mac Pro w/ USB3+Thunderbolt… 🙂
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Neither card is supported for ray-tracing.
Are you running After Effects CS6? If so, have you updated to 11.0.2 [link]?
I’ve seen conflicting reports on what happens when you install CUDA drivers on an ATI system (CUDA is NVIDIA-only).
You might try deleting the following files:
/System/Library/Extensions/CUDA.kext
/Library/Frameworks/CUDA.framework
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes/CUDA/Preferences.prefPane
/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA/Walter Soyka
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Hi there Walter.
This fixed it! (although two of the folders you mentioned were empty)
Updating the CUDA driver must have been the culprit.
Many thanx!
Have a great weekend.
Kind Regards,
Johan
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