[Bf-cycles] Recent builds crashing - Cycles CUDA rendering

[David Black]

Hey Thomas,

Thank you, that explains everything, sounds amazing!  If the new Kepler 
cards with their proposed shared virtual memory space weren't due in a 
few months, I would definitely now be considering buying an extra GPU.

Exciting times ahead!

David
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On 08/01/2012 23:29, Thomas Dinges wrote:
> Hi David,
> I am pretty sure the issue came with revision 43136, where Brecht did 
> some code refactoring for multi devices. He is working currently on 
> multi GPU support, and I think that when this is there in a few days 
> or 1-2 weeks, you will be able to select inside Blender, which GPU to use.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> Am 08.01.2012 23:56, schrieb David Black:
>> Hi Dalai,
>>
>> Thank you for your reply, I keep a copy of the official builds but 
>> some very recently added features, like border rendering /(thank you 
>> Brecht!)/, almost make the official builds feel obsolete.
>>
>> A quick example...  The border rendering /(just a few days ago)/ 
>> saved me 17 hours render time after changing just one small part of a 
>> room-set scene /(part of my honours degree work)/, there would not 
>> have been time to re-render the whole scene before the work had to be 
>> submitted.
>>
>> I consider that test builds might be unstable but hope bug reporting 
>> is helpful.
>>
>> David 
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