Hi Patrick Did you install the CUDA drivers? All GPU renderers need to have them before they will work.
You can have a look at Royal Render. I am not sure if they still allow 4 fully functional trial licences. Kind regards Angus ________________________________ From: Patrick Neese [patrickne...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 October 2014 10:05 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Stand-Alone to Network license? So I downloaded the redshift demo...and it errors out right away with a message about it being unable to operate with less than 256mb of free vram. All of the values other than the card type are at 0 or 0kb. Any ideas? I have a gtx 560 ti i believe with 1 gig. No sli setup. I was looking to upgrade to the 970 gtx near black friday but I was really hoping I could get a preview of redshift soon to help decide on maybe a next level workstation card if it would greatly help. Backburner's server.exe refuses to run on my second computer so I cant even try anything there and see if there is a way to queue an mi2 file. This is fun! On Oct 23, 2014 1:27 PM, "Jason S" <jasonsta...@gmail.com<mailto:jasonsta...@gmail.com>> wrote: Pssst!! Redshift (!) ;) On 10/23/14 11:52, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Patrick Neese <patrickne...@gmail.com<mailto:patrickne...@gmail.com>> wrote: The reseller I talked with said I have unlimited render nodes for Max and Backburner for Mental Ray and to just use that. I don't know what shaders can/can't be used for the renders this way from softimage. I'm still green with all of this...but at this point at least I don't have to buy more from Autodesk. I don't think that this is true, that you can render mi2 files with 3dsmax/backburner with your suite standalone license. In any case, with your softimage standalone license you have the ability to run 4 satellite render nodes for free, so you should try that first, see if it helps. Since you're a hobbyist, I think you should also ask yourself what makes your life difficult with rendering what's best to fix it. Adding more MR render nodes for overnight rendering may not fix the problem, perhaps you should go with a modern GPU renderer or something else. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
