Scene Optimizer from V3Digitimes

wmiller314

So I picked up the scene optimizer by 3ddigitimes today on sale. I've been looking at this product for a while now, because I have a slower computer (NVIDIA GTX1050 card), so I'm looking for a way to speed up renders. I used a scene that I made yesterday and it took me nearly three hours to render in Iray under normal circumstances. With scene optimizer it takes just as long. Has anyone used this product? Am I doing something wrong? ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks

Richard Haseltine

By how much did you reduce the textures? How many of them are there? Was the render falling back to CPU before running Scene Optimiser?

wmiller314

I reduced the textures by 4 and I don't know how to tell if the render is falling back to CPU. Is there a way to know that?

Richard Haseltine

The log file will tell you - Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File - after the render, it lists how much each device contributed. However, looking at the specificatons for the 1050 you probably have only 2GB or 3GB of memory on the card - even with Scene Optimiser you are unlikely to fit much into that wthout its dropping back to CPU.

wmiller314

I have 4 gb according to my BF. I'm guessing that's still too low?

MarcCCTx

Did you close and reopen the file after reducing it? As I recall the render engine still uses the the old info until you do that.

wmiller314

I did close and reopen, yes. :(

 

fastbike1

According to nvidia, gtx1050 has 2or3 gb unless ti. Even with optimizer your scenes may still be too big. 

wmiller314

Bummer. But thanks for the info.

 

fastbike1

You can control you scenes. You have to work with the tools you have if you can't / don't want to get better tools. 3D rendering is not for the faint of hardware. Just a fact.

wmiller314 said:

Bummer. But thanks for the info.