Possible to render from non-active, secondary vid card?

[yahodahan]

Hi all-

Hoping to give Octane a try in the near future, however at the office we have zero Nvidia cards, due to them destroying network profiles (somehow...this is actually a "known issue" that Nvidia refuses to fix so far).

So, I would like to bring in my personal GTS 250 and drop it in one of the render machines as a "secondary" video card (currently the machines just render via CPU). I wouldn't actually be using the card for display even, just hoping to drop it in and render from it.

Is this possible? Could I possibly even skip installing the Nvidia drivers, as they might cause havoc in the system?

Thanks!

[radiance]

Hi,

You can add a 2nd card and use it for rendering.
You will have to install the nvidia drivers for it though.

Also, if you're primary GPU is an ATI card, you won't be guaranteed octane will properly function,
as the nvidia <> ati image transfer is'nt yet proved stable on many reports...

Radiance

[yahodahan]

Hi Radiance-

How do you get time to build this fantastic program when you are answering these questions so quickly?

Thanks- I felt silly just asking if the drivers were needed, but figured there was a slight chance I could get around it...haha, guess not.

Also, if you're primary GPU is an ATI card, you won't be guaranteed octane will properly function,
as the nvidia <> ati image transfer is'nt yet proved stable on many reports...

Not sure what you mean here- transferring the image made via the Nvidia GPU to the ATI GPU to my monitor, I assume? Does it help that I would actually be using the computer remotely, and therefore (I believe) not using the render machine's main ATI GPU anyway? Of course...the computer I'm remoting from has an ATI card though...so, same issue?

If it's just not going to work, I'll just bring in my own rig and fire it up on that, to demo the software for the boss-guy.

Thanks again!

If you don't mind me hijacking my own thread, this just popped into my head: If there were some way to actually build (VERY simple) geometry right in Octane, and I'm talking very simple, Sketch-Up style at best- architects would go absolutely ga-ga over this. We (Studio2a.net) mainly build and render scenes for those guys, and they can never get it fast enough, and the changes never stop, right up to the deadline.

That would be beautiful indeed

[radiance]

Hi Radiance-

How do you get time to build this fantastic program when you are answering these questions so quickly?

Thanks- I felt silly just asking if the drivers were needed, but figured there was a slight chance I could get around it...haha, guess not.

Also, if you're primary GPU is an ATI card, you won't be guaranteed octane will properly function,
as the nvidia <> ati image transfer is'nt yet proved stable on many reports...

Not sure what you mean here- transferring the image made via the Nvidia GPU to the ATI GPU to my monitor, I assume? Does it help that I would actually be using the computer remotely, and therefore (I believe) not using the render machine's main ATI GPU anyway? Of course...the computer I'm remoting from has an ATI card though...so, same issue?

If it's just not going to work, I'll just bring in my own rig and fire it up on that, to demo the software for the boss-guy.

Thanks again!

If you don't mind me hijacking my own thread, this just popped into my head: If there were some way to actually build (VERY simple) geometry right in Octane, and I'm talking very simple, Sketch-Up style at best- architects would go absolutely ga-ga over this. We (Studio2a.net) mainly build and render scenes for those guys, and they can never get it fast enough, and the changes never stop, right up to the deadline.

That would be beautiful indeed

Modeling is not our priority at this stage, octane is a renderer currently.
maybe in the future.

there are already a lot of good modeler apps on the market...

Radiance