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Turbulence FD don’t want to render with my GPU
Hello.
So I’m trying to do a simulation with the Turbulence FD plugin. The default render hardware is my cpu and it takes so much time to render a frame.
When I choose my gpu instead of my cpu it switches back to my cpu. I don’t get it. I can select my gpu while rendering and shows the vram from the gpu, but after few seconds its switching again to my cpu. I updated my drivers to the latest and the internet isn’t helpful. Maybe some of you guys have a solution.My gpu: GTX 1060 6GB Gainward Phoenix
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7 Replies
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Hi Maxim,
I know that Turbulence FD will switch back to the CPU when it runs out of GPU memory, but I wouldn’t think that would happen after only a few seconds unless you are trying to run a massive simulation.
If you want to post your project file I’ll try running it on my GTX 980 Ti 6GB and see what happens.
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Hello Jim,
thanks for your fast response. Here is the file:
https://f1.creativecow.net/11524/smoke-simulation?uploaded=file
Good luck ????
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When you say “render” I’m assuming you were referring to running the cached simulation. When I ran it, it took about 3 min. 30 seconds for the full 300 frames. As far as I could tell it was running on the GPU the whole time, indicating that it was using around 1.7GB of the available 6GB. If I run it with CPU selected it estimates over 20 minutes.
What do you see when it switches back to the CPU? Does the selection window switch to that, or what?
I am leaving to go to my granddaughter’s 1st birthday party, so I will check back later.
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Do you have the most recent nVidia drivers installed? If not that could be the problem.
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Okay now I get an error message.
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Yes I have :/
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Hey, Max, I’m having the same issue 🙁 Did you find out how to fix it?
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