Hey Patrick, I downloaded the latest trail last night at home of redshift and after the first render of just a grid it gave me the same render error as you about not enough vram - I also have a 560TI. I was one version behind on latest nvidia drivers - updated to latest and redshift then worked fine. super fast strands rendering!
On 24 October 2014 10:13, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za> wrote: > 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> 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> >>> 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. >>> >> >> 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. > >
