[Bf-cycles] Issue with rendering using GPU's

Josh Cullum josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk
Wed Nov 19 17:58:18 CET 2014


However it still seems to be rendering on 2.72b (Just updated from 2.72)
with the GTX660 with no issues

On 19 November 2014 16:53, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Gottfried,
>
> Unfortunately, I get the same error when trying to run this with blender
> 2.69 as well.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Josh Cullum
>
> On 19 November 2014 16:43, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> I get the error in both the Supported and Experimental feature set.
>>
>> Gottfried, I'm downloading 2.69 now and will give it a go in a moment.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Josh Cullum
>>
>> On 19 November 2014 16:40, Marco G <marco.gzt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is Experimental feature kernel disabled? (switch to Supported).
>>> Experimental needs quite a lot of memory.
>>>
>>> MG
>>>
>>> 2014-11-19 17:38 GMT+01:00 Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>>
>>>> The blend file is here: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/32955
>>>>
>>>> In Blender, I'm getting the memory as 1516.46M, but both GPU's have 6GB
>>>> memory each.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Josh Cullum
>>>>
>>>> On 19 November 2014 16:26, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My first suggestion would be to check GPU memory usage.
>>>>>
>>>>> But you referenced to attached .blend. Out ML doesn't allow to do big
>>>>> attachments, so do you mind re-uploading it somewhere (like, pasteall) and
>>>>> giving a link here?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Josh Cullum <josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ahh Sorry all, Will do in future Dan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Josh Cullum
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 19 November 2014 16:18, Dan McGrath <danmcgrath.ca at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Josh,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oops, it looks like you sent a very large email to the list. For
>>>>>>> future reference, please use pasteall.org to post large blender
>>>>>>> files and use a link in the email instead of attaching it to the email
>>>>>>> itself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And apologies to the rest of the list for such a large email!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Josh Cullum <
>>>>>>> josh.cullum at cfms.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi There,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have an issue with a particular scene that has been created on
>>>>>>>> another PC (Windows 7, Nvidia GTX660) and sent to me to render using a HPC
>>>>>>>> GPU node ( RHEL 6.4, 2x Nvidia Tesla M2070). We are seeing an error within
>>>>>>>> blender when trying to render this specific scene on the HPC GPU node using
>>>>>>>> Cycles render, *CUDA error: Invalid value in
>>>>>>>> cuTexRefSetAddress(NULL, texref, cuda_device_ptr(mem.device_poi**nter),
>>>>>>>> size)* which bombs out the render as soon as the BVH mesh has been
>>>>>>>> calculated. The settings are 1000 samples @ 2160x3064 with 256x256 tiles,
>>>>>>>> the .blend file is attached (zipped)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, we seem to be able to render in 4K @ 1000 samples with
>>>>>>>> 256x256 tiles, Mike Pans BMW test case without any issues, as well as the
>>>>>>>> latest test case, the cycles_bench_272.blend using the GPU's and having no
>>>>>>>> issues at all.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The version we are running on the GPU machine is Blender 2.72b,
>>>>>>>> with the latest Nvidia drivers 340.58.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Josh Cullum
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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