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  • ZilvergrafixZilvergrafix Posts: 1,385

    what the mistery of your top video card, is so difficult to say RTX 3090 Founders Edition or you are Linus Sebastian disguised with some Prototype of Vega AMD card?

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057
    edited November 2020

    Basic Open CL in Daz Studio is incredibly fast.  The light and textures aren't as compelling, but if you are looking for a more 'cartooney' look...

    cheeky

    Post edited by tj_1ca9500b on
  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    edited November 2020
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:

    Iray is money and resource hog utility. A simple scene require almost 3GB VRAM which is insane. Almost all low and medium GPU became useless specially low VRAM GPUs. Also other GPU not work. Also CPU denoising not work.

    ALTERNATIVE is badly needed.

    My hardware Nvidia GPU is currently cannot render Iray and I am looking for Iray alternative.

    Not sure what you are even talking about. Only the very lowest end Pascal cards have less than 6Gb of VRAM (3gb 1060, 1050ti, 1050 and 1030). So you seem to be talking about very old HW not recent generation low to medium tier GPU's. 

    My GPU was working till yesterday without any problem. This GPU is one of the best selling GPU at present, or may be it is the best selling GPU ever. Currently available at Amazon with tags Amazon's Choice, more than 5000 ratings and most of them are 5 and 4 star.

    Say what it is because your vagueness is telling me that it is some low end card.

    I know you know it is some low end card, because I know you or your expertness. However fact is Iray just withdraw suppot for a GPU which is previously supported and currently available to purchase everywhere and even while other GPU render engines still working for that card.

    Withdrew? So it is a Kepler? Your complaint is with Nvidia. Their forums are at 

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discover/

    Post edited by kenshaw011267 on
  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    nonesuch00 said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:

    Iray is money and resource hog utility. A simple scene require almost 3GB VRAM which is insane. Almost all low and medium GPU became useless specially low VRAM GPUs. Also other GPU not work. Also CPU denoising not work.

    ALTERNATIVE is badly needed.

    My hardware Nvidia GPU is currently cannot render Iray and I am looking for Iray alternative.

    Not sure what you are even talking about. Only the very lowest end Pascal cards have less than 6Gb of VRAM (3gb 1060, 1050ti, 1050 and 1030). So you seem to be talking about very old HW not recent generation low to medium tier GPU's. 

    My GPU was working till yesterday without any problem. This GPU is one of the best selling GPU at present, or may be it is the best selling GPU ever. Currently available at Amazon with tags Amazon's Choice, more than 5000 ratings and most of them are 5 and 4 star.

    Say what it is because your vagueness is telling me that it is some low end card.

    Not true, I have a 2019 or 2020 year model PNY GeForce GTX 1650 Super 4GB and well you can see from the name it has less than 6GB RAM.

    1650, I knew there was one I'd forgotten. Yeah sorry. My bad. But why did you but that thing?

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    I switched to Blender and Cycles because I had exactly the same opinion about Iray.

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,642
    nonesuch00 said:
    icprncss said:
    Besides the previously mentioned Reality and Poser. There is Bryce and Carerra. There is or was (the store search isn't working so I can't tell if there still available) the Luxus plugin for Lux renderer for both DS and Carrera. There's Kerkythia (sp?). Maxwell. Octane. The first used to be free. The last two aren't. There are plenty of options out there.

    The Luxus plugin from what I could find was for Cararra and not DAZ Studio. It was once sold in the DAZ 3D store but isn't anymore.

    The Luxus plugin, like Reality plugin for DAZ Studio, may even be released as source code now. Does anyone know if the Luxus plugin source ccode is released & if so where?

    There were versions of Luxus for Daz Studio and Carrara but if Daz don't sell it anymore I don't know if it is avaialble anywhere.

    Reality isn't supported anymore (that sounds crazy). Last time I looked the source code was available but not a compiled version and it looked like quite a lot of work putting together the tools needed to compile it and figuring out how it works.

  • j cadej cade Posts: 2,310
    Peter Wade said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    icprncss said:
    Besides the previously mentioned Reality and Poser. There is Bryce and Carerra. There is or was (the store search isn't working so I can't tell if there still available) the Luxus plugin for Lux renderer for both DS and Carrera. There's Kerkythia (sp?). Maxwell. Octane. The first used to be free. The last two aren't. There are plenty of options out there.

    The Luxus plugin from what I could find was for Cararra and not DAZ Studio. It was once sold in the DAZ 3D store but isn't anymore.

    The Luxus plugin, like Reality plugin for DAZ Studio, may even be released as source code now. Does anyone know if the Luxus plugin source ccode is released & if so where?

    There were versions of Luxus for Daz Studio and Carrara but if Daz don't sell it anymore I don't know if it is avaialble anywhere.

    Reality isn't supported anymore (that sounds crazy). Last time I looked the source code was available but not a compiled version and it looked like quite a lot of work putting together the tools needed to compile it and figuring out how it works.

    Honestly if you want to use luxrender (the render engine reality linked to) your best bet by far is to export to blender. You can download luxrender (now known as luxcorerender) for blender. Although at that point your probably better off using cycles. Luxcore is even more unintuitive than iray when it comes to sss and skin
  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679

    How about telling us what hardware you have? Complaining about performance without saying what you actually have is getting us nowhere.

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562
    edited November 2020
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:

    Iray is money and resource hog utility. A simple scene require almost 3GB VRAM which is insane. Almost all low and medium GPU became useless specially low VRAM GPUs. Also other GPU not work. Also CPU denoising not work.

    ALTERNATIVE is badly needed.

    My hardware Nvidia GPU is currently cannot render Iray and I am looking for Iray alternative.

    Not sure what you are even talking about. Only the very lowest end Pascal cards have less than 6Gb of VRAM (3gb 1060, 1050ti, 1050 and 1030). So you seem to be talking about very old HW not recent generation low to medium tier GPU's. 

    My GPU was working till yesterday without any problem. This GPU is one of the best selling GPU at present, or may be it is the best selling GPU ever. Currently available at Amazon with tags Amazon's Choice, more than 5000 ratings and most of them are 5 and 4 star.

    Say what it is because your vagueness is telling me that it is some low end card.

    I know you know it is some low end card, because I know you or your expertness. However fact is Iray just withdraw suppot for a GPU which is previously supported and currently available to purchase everywhere and even while other GPU render engines still working for that card.

    Withdrew? So it is a Kepler? Your complaint is with Nvidia. Their forums are at 

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discover/

    Using google search I found this page about this card:

    https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-bring-kepler-back-from-the-dead-passive-geforce-gt-710-with-four-hdmi-ports.html#:~:text=four HDMI ports-,ASUS Bring Kepler back from the dead: Passive GeForce,710 with four HDMI ports&text=The GT710-4H-SL-,the same passive heat sink.

     

    It will be useless because gamers are probably not using it, even if they use, Iray is probably unknown to them. Renderers also probably not using it, even if they are using it, they are probably using it with Blender only and Cycle render is working fine with this card.

     

     

    outrider42 said:

    How about telling us what hardware you have? Complaining about performance without saying what you actually have is getting us nowhere.

    It is Nvidia Geforce GT 710. It is fully functional with Blender and can render small and medium scenes easily.

    Edit: It is https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/gt-710-2gd3h-lp.html

    Post edited by Galaxy on
  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562
    nicstt said:

    I switched to Blender and Cycles because I had exactly the same opinion about Iray.

    On the other hand even it lack CPU denosing. I wish a day will come when DS include Cycles render engine or Daz Store integrated with Blender like it is currently integrated with Das Studio.

  • jjmainorjjmainor Posts: 490
    Galaxy said:
    jjmainor said:

    Depending on what you're looking to do, you can get some excellent results with 3DL.

    Currently 3DL is my only render engine for that PC but sometimes 3DL is very slow compared to render engine with denoising feature. I am also strugling to mix Filament with hair etc.

    I've been playing more and more with reflective surfaces on everything, plus I've been using exclusively Genesis 1, but have been branching out more and more into content for G2 and 3.  I've been making scenes more and more complex and the render times go up.  My last project, I was rendering images larger than usual, and my render times for those reached 2 hours.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,320
    edited November 2020
    kenshaw011267 said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:

    Iray is money and resource hog utility. A simple scene require almost 3GB VRAM which is insane. Almost all low and medium GPU became useless specially low VRAM GPUs. Also other GPU not work. Also CPU denoising not work.

    ALTERNATIVE is badly needed.

    My hardware Nvidia GPU is currently cannot render Iray and I am looking for Iray alternative.

    Not sure what you are even talking about. Only the very lowest end Pascal cards have less than 6Gb of VRAM (3gb 1060, 1050ti, 1050 and 1030). So you seem to be talking about very old HW not recent generation low to medium tier GPU's. 

    My GPU was working till yesterday without any problem. This GPU is one of the best selling GPU at present, or may be it is the best selling GPU ever. Currently available at Amazon with tags Amazon's Choice, more than 5000 ratings and most of them are 5 and 4 star.

    Say what it is because your vagueness is telling me that it is some low end card.

    Not true, I have a 2019 or 2020 year model PNY GeForce GTX 1650 Super 4GB and well you can see from the name it has less than 6GB RAM.

    1650, I knew there was one I'd forgotten. Yeah sorry. My bad. But why did you but that thing?

    It was given to me free & it's better than the 1080 TI everyone in the DAZ forums were gaga about 3 or 4 of years ago (except for the only 4GB RAM part that is). I've decided to upgrade though, and this one I'll have to pay my own money for, to a 3060 12GB if the rumour isn't bull and they available from places other then hardware scalpers.

    Post edited by nonesuch00 on
  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,320
    Peter Wade said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    icprncss said:
    Besides the previously mentioned Reality and Poser. There is Bryce and Carerra. There is or was (the store search isn't working so I can't tell if there still available) the Luxus plugin for Lux renderer for both DS and Carrera. There's Kerkythia (sp?). Maxwell. Octane. The first used to be free. The last two aren't. There are plenty of options out there.

    The Luxus plugin from what I could find was for Cararra and not DAZ Studio. It was once sold in the DAZ 3D store but isn't anymore.

    The Luxus plugin, like Reality plugin for DAZ Studio, may even be released as source code now. Does anyone know if the Luxus plugin source ccode is released & if so where?

    There were versions of Luxus for Daz Studio and Carrara but if Daz don't sell it anymore I don't know if it is avaialble anywhere.

    Reality isn't supported anymore (that sounds crazy). Last time I looked the source code was available but not a compiled version and it looked like quite a lot of work putting together the tools needed to compile it and figuring out how it works.

    Thanks

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562
    nonesuch00 said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    nonesuch00 said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:

    Iray is money and resource hog utility. A simple scene require almost 3GB VRAM which is insane. Almost all low and medium GPU became useless specially low VRAM GPUs. Also other GPU not work. Also CPU denoising not work.

    ALTERNATIVE is badly needed.

    My hardware Nvidia GPU is currently cannot render Iray and I am looking for Iray alternative.

    Not sure what you are even talking about. Only the very lowest end Pascal cards have less than 6Gb of VRAM (3gb 1060, 1050ti, 1050 and 1030). So you seem to be talking about very old HW not recent generation low to medium tier GPU's. 

    My GPU was working till yesterday without any problem. This GPU is one of the best selling GPU at present, or may be it is the best selling GPU ever. Currently available at Amazon with tags Amazon's Choice, more than 5000 ratings and most of them are 5 and 4 star.

    Say what it is because your vagueness is telling me that it is some low end card.

    Not true, I have a 2019 or 2020 year model PNY GeForce GTX 1650 Super 4GB and well you can see from the name it has less than 6GB RAM.

    1650, I knew there was one I'd forgotten. Yeah sorry. My bad. But why did you but that thing?

    It was given to me free & it's better than the 1080 TI everyone in the DAZ forums were gaga about 3 or 4 of years ago (except for the only 4GB RAM part that it). I've decided to upgrade though, and this one I'll have to pay my own money for, to a 3060 12GB if the rumour isn't bull and they available from places other then hardware scalpers.

    And I purchased that card without anything in mind or  just for better video playback, the then myself was a noob to 3D world and then I found Blender and then Daz Studio.

    Iray probably started giving problems for 4GB cards too because probably almost all VRAM are occupied by Iray junk.  If you can wait then easily avoid hardware scalpers also I hope you will find an excellent deal for a RTX card within few months. Lot of opportunity ahead BF, TG, CM etc.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    outrider42 said:

    How about telling us what hardware you have? Complaining about performance without saying what you actually have is getting us nowhere.

    I disagree.

    I get faster results in Blender's Cycles with the same hardware. I didn''t have to buy a better gfx card and so saved lots of cash

    Sure there's a learning curve, but now I can have a figure exported and ready to use in Blender in around five minutes.

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562
    edited November 2020
    nicstt said:
    outrider42 said:

    How about telling us what hardware you have? Complaining about performance without saying what you actually have is getting us nowhere.

    I disagree.

    I get faster results in Blender's Cycles with the same hardware. I didn''t have to buy a better gfx card and so saved lots of cash

    Sure there's a learning curve, but now I can have a figure exported and ready to use in Blender in around five minutes.

    As far as I know your CPU is also a beast a quick render 128 iteration with denoising just matter of seconds. Result is more than acceptable. On the other hand CPU denoising not available at all with Iray.

    Post edited by Galaxy on
  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:
    kenshaw011267 said:
    Galaxy said:

    Iray is money and resource hog utility. A simple scene require almost 3GB VRAM which is insane. Almost all low and medium GPU became useless specially low VRAM GPUs. Also other GPU not work. Also CPU denoising not work.

    ALTERNATIVE is badly needed.

    My hardware Nvidia GPU is currently cannot render Iray and I am looking for Iray alternative.

    Not sure what you are even talking about. Only the very lowest end Pascal cards have less than 6Gb of VRAM (3gb 1060, 1050ti, 1050 and 1030). So you seem to be talking about very old HW not recent generation low to medium tier GPU's. 

    My GPU was working till yesterday without any problem. This GPU is one of the best selling GPU at present, or may be it is the best selling GPU ever. Currently available at Amazon with tags Amazon's Choice, more than 5000 ratings and most of them are 5 and 4 star.

    Say what it is because your vagueness is telling me that it is some low end card.

    I know you know it is some low end card, because I know you or your expertness. However fact is Iray just withdraw suppot for a GPU which is previously supported and currently available to purchase everywhere and even while other GPU render engines still working for that card.

    Withdrew? So it is a Kepler? Your complaint is with Nvidia. Their forums are at 

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discover/

    Using google search I found this page about this card:

    https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-bring-kepler-back-from-the-dead-passive-geforce-gt-710-with-four-hdmi-ports.html#:~:text=four HDMI ports-,ASUS Bring Kepler back from the dead: Passive GeForce,710 with four HDMI ports&text=The GT710-4H-SL-,the same passive heat sink.

     

    It will be useless because gamers are probably not using it, even if they use, Iray is probably unknown to them. Renderers also probably not using it, even if they are using it, they are probably using it with Blender only and Cycle render is working fine with this card.

     

     

    outrider42 said:

    How about telling us what hardware you have? Complaining about performance without saying what you actually have is getting us nowhere.

    It is Nvidia Geforce GT 710. It is fully functional with Blender and can render small and medium scenes easily.

    Edit: It is https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/gt-710-2gd3h-lp.html

    That is why you should never buy a card based off star ratings and the like.

    Since you clearly think you know better I will not waste my time explaining why it was bad the day it launched but it was. 

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