What is Use Priority?

[treddie]

In Preferences > Devices, there is a toggle called, "Use Priority". What is this?

A search through the documentation comes up empty.

[abstrax]

In Preferences > Devices, there is a toggle called, "Use Priority". What is this?

A search through the documentation comes up empty.

Yes, sorry for the documentation... In Octane you can specify the render priority as a project option, but only those devices that have use priority enabled, will apply this priority setting. All devices that have use priority disabled will ignore it and always render as fast as possible.

The idea behind that is that a lot of users use the option to throttle down the usage of the display GPU (i.e. the GPU that is used for the OS framebuffer, editor displays, etc.) but don't want to throttle down any other GPUs that are not connected with any displays and are not used for the OS framebuffer and editor displays, etc.

[treddie]

Thanks, abstrax.

A connected question then...If a GPU has Use Priority enabled, but has no physical monitors connected, will it render slower, or does Octane understand the situation?

[smicha]

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=57532



A shorter version

[treddie]

Thanks for the videos, smicha. They do a good job of showing where the resources are going.