On an older 64 bit machine, iray or 3Delight?

Sfariah D

My HP laptop is being looked at by HP.  Well soon as in when they receive it as it is still in transit to my knowledge to the HP location, but until it is return to me, I am using an old Lenovo laptop.  I know I can use iray but is it advisable?  Right now it has no battery but I should get a new battery that should work with the Lenovo around Saturday.

i was wondering if iray is the best idea for an old laptop.  It originally had vista according to its sticker.

Paintbox

Hi Miss BW, If the cooling is sound and the GPU fast enough for you, I dont see why not!

It is advisable though to have a battery even when you have it plugged in. I can recall reading somewhere it is kind of important. Well at least for power hungry tasks like rendering.

Silver Dolphin

Iray is a very gpu intensive render engine. It can be run on cpu but it takes forever. I would stick with 3delight or opengl for laptop renders unless you get a external desktop video card to connect to the pcie slot on your laptop via ribbon and run iray that way >>(you will have to remove the wireless adapter for this to work). I do Iray on my desktop and my cheap amd laptop is strictly 3delight or opengl. Another thing you can do is work on the scenes you want and set them up and save the scene on usb pen drive and transfer to desktop for rendering.

Sfariah D

Silver Dolphin said:

Iray is a very gpu intensive render engine. It can be run on cpu but it takes forever. I would stick with 3delight or opengl for laptop renders unless you get a external desktop video card to connect to the pcie slot on your laptop via ribbon and run iray that way >>(you will have to remove the wireless adapter for this to work). I do Iray on my desktop and my cheap amd laptop is strictly 3delight or opengl. Another thing you can do is work on the scenes you want and set them up and save the scene on usb pen drive and transfer to desktop for rendering.

Do not have a working desktop at the moment.  Only have access to one working computer, as my other laptop arrives at HP for diagnosis of its troubles.

Silver Dolphin

I would use the cycles render engine in blender to render scenes if you dont want to use opengl or 3delight.  mcasual's daz to blender scripts are in freebie section here and it is a free solution and is a better looking render. New upcoming version of blender 2.8 is going to get evee render engine and it also is free. If you want a cheap cpu render computer I would look into getting a off lease workstation with 32 to 64 gigs of ram with a xeon processors. You can find these on ebay and craigslist for decent prices. These are not cheap consumer pc's they are business computers with high end processors and ecc ram.