[Bf-cycles] Switch to CUDA Toolkit 4.2

[David Black]

Hi Thomas,

Can you delete messages on the mailing list?  I did not add an 
attachment to the last e-mail with pasteall.org images but an attachment 
is there, just carried out a virus check and seems I have picked up a 
java based virus this afternoon, possibly after opening an e-mail from a 
friend.  As a PC Technician, even though deleted the virus in last few 
minutes, call me paranoid but that now means I do a clean OS install.

Really sorry if I have sent a virus to the mailing list, I examined the 
previous attachment and it scans as clean but thought best to warn people.

David
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On 30/04/2012 12:40, Thomas Dinges wrote:
> Hi David,
> thanks for offering help. :)
>
> Here is a current version of Trunk for win64, compiled with the 
> Toolkit 4.2 and kernels 13, 20, 21 and 30.
> http://blender.dingto.org/builds/trunk_win64_46104.7z
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas
>
> Am 29.04.2012 22:31, schrieb David Black:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Do you have a download link for your compiled version with 4.2.9?  If 
>> helpful, can test it for you with both a 1GB GTX 460 and 2GB GTX 580m 
>> then let you know the results, if it crashes/freezes or not.
>>
>> Hope you're having a great weekend!
>>
>> David
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>>
>>
>> On 29/04/2012 17:29, Thomas Dinges wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I did some extensive testing today with the new (stable release 4.2.9)
>>> CUDA Toolkit with Blender 2.63 (45996) and current Trunk.
>>>
>>> The results are fine (at least on my GT540 card), could not test other
>>> cards yet.
>>> Render time was the same, or in some cases a few seconds better.
>>>
>>> However I experienced 1 serious issue with the Mike Pan BMW Test scene.
>>> 2.63 compiled with Toolkit 4.2 did not want to render, it frooze at the
>>> "Packing BVH Triangles". I was unable to kill the Blender process, I had
>>> to force shut down my computer. This happened 2 times (I did not want to
>>> test it further).
>>> I think that this might be a bug in Cycles, because the same scene works
>>> fine in current Trunk (with the improved BVH code).
>>>
>>> So I would suggest to stick with Toolkit 4.0 for a possible Blender
>>> 2.63a, but switch to Toolkit 4.2 in SVN and for 2.64. I could not find
>>> an issue with it and current Trunk.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>
>>
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