Nahte27

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EVGA_JacobF

Nahte27

Wow, beautiful.

Wow! Are you running in SLI? Mine sit for 5 - 10 minutes on the 480 and don't come out like that. :(

Thanks guys!

Nope, that was a single GTX 275 that ran for about 9 hours. That may seem like a long time, but believe me, in the 3D rendering world, 9 hours is nothing!

Yeah, I know it isn't a long time. :) That much is true. It is very hard on the hardware. Thank you. You are very welcome too! :)

Ah ok, good deal! Photoshop is your friend! :)

I am really impressed with all these photos.  This is a cool tool.  I hope they build it into more over time or even offer a pay version with more choices.  These images are just stunning!  I think it would be interesting if you all also posted how long you let it render before capturing the image.

I cannot wait to try it out with my 480 SLI setup soon.  I have tried it on my 280s and had some challenges.  I am curious if my findings are on par for the 200 series or if I am doing something wrong.

• I could not even get the application to run unless I disabled SLI.  Thanks to someone in this thread for pointing that out (sorry, forget who).

• When I disabled SLI, the Nvidia control panel automatically changed my PhysX card from the 250 to the 280.  When I run the program and it starts rendering, I noticed it was using both of my 280s.  The default scene would render ok, but was using nearly 800 mb of Vram.  If I changed to another scene, it would crash politely telling me I did not have enough GPU memory and that I should disable SLI or close other programs.
• I then tried disabling PhysX completely.  This works but it only uses one 280.  I noticed that the same default scene using only one 280 required roughly 100 mb less Vram.  So, with only one card I was able to render some of the other scenes.  But, if I tried swapping cars in a scene I still often hit the out of memory error.
• Performance-wise, using one 280 it seems to average about 0.3 fps.

Does anyone see any issues with what I have found?  Is this on par or is there some issue.  This is all using 197.13 drivers.  I was also doing this testing with the window maximized on my 1920x1200 desktop.

Will I have issues using Design Garage with dual 480s?  Will I still need to disable SLI?  I assume the extra Vram will definitely help, but are there still potential scenes that would even still max out the GPU memory?  What kind of fps can I expect with my 480s?  I understand this was optimized for the 400 series, so I am guessing the performance will be more than just 2x?

Here's another one:


3 hours with a GTX 275.

deathsoldier11


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Time: 1 hour
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I didn't feel like waiting for it to finish.
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Time: ~2 hours

Oh wow! does it have to remain the active window?

EVGA_JacobF

Yes, it needs to remain the active window.

Thank you. I will have to pick a time when I am not active on the computer. That will be a tough one for me! lol. I appreciate the help though.

I love this program! Does it actually do much more if you leave it on longer than a couple of hours? It seems to do fine at the 30min to 1-2 hour mark (depending on the frame rate and scene).

Anyway, one more for today (I think):
I could have left it on for another 30min to an hour though.

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So if we are talking 30 minutes per frame, that means that the hardware would have to get  54,000 times faster to get this quality at 30fps.

sims5677

Bugatti Pur Sang:

5 Minutes :)

I am getting a COnfiguration error saying that my 260 does not have enough GPU memory.  Anyone know what is up with this?  I am pulling my hair out.

So are they going to patch this for SLI ? I remember the first time I saw nvidia using this demo it was with a Tri SLI GTX 480 setup. It really sucks only using one 285. 

metal_god69

I am getting a COnfiguration error saying that my 260 does not have enough GPU memory.  Anyone know what is up with this?  I am pulling my hair out.

I have the same card. I only had the error when I tried Full screening it when it was loading. The second (just now) time I tried full screening when it was loading, it made my drivers crash with artifacting and also had the error.

metal_god69

I am getting a COnfiguration error saying that my 260 does not have enough GPU memory.  Anyone know what is up with this?  I am pulling my hair out.

I suggest using precision to watch GPU memory.  This thing takes a lot.  With my 280 using 1 gig, there are a lot of combinations that max out the memory.  Keeping the window at a smaller resolution helps the memory.  Also, I find that at least for me disabling SLI and PhysX reduces the memory.  I have no clue why the PhysX makes a difference, but it does.  Now, if you have only one GPU, disabling PhysX might not matter.  I forget hot much memory the 260 has, but 1 gig is not really enough for this program.

I cannot wait to try this thing when my 2 480s arrive today!

spawn447

i had to uninstall this due to giving me weird graphical error , whole screen had spots on it, then my games also had bad spotting ( like it was snowing in multy color) . no oc on gpu. latest driver. pc #1 as below.

I had that issue once as well.  A reboot corrected it.  It only happened once, but it has crashed my driver a couple times.  This program really strains the cards I think and really wants lots of VRAM.

jasonanderson

spawn447

i had to uninstall this due to giving me weird graphical error , whole screen had spots on it, then my games also had bad spotting ( like it was snowing in multy color) . no oc on gpu. latest driver. pc #1 as below.

I had that issue once as well.  A reboot corrected it.  It only happened once, but it has crashed my driver a couple times.  This program really strains the cards I think and really wants lots of VRAM.

ok will try , and will turn off physx / sli.
thanks