VRam Usage Clarification

[Sandrust]

Hi All,
just after a clarification on the way Octane uses VRam.
I understand if you're using multiple cards for rendering with Octane then the amount of VRam used is equal to the lowest amount of Vram available on the cards as it has to load the entire scene onto both cards.
Does this apply if you tell Octane to use only one card on your system?

eg., If I have 2 cards, one with 1gb for display purposes only and one with 3gb for rendering with Octane and I disable the 1gb card in preferences, will the 3gb be used?
Thanks in advance,
Steve

[mib2berlin]

Hi Sandrust, yes, some here have cheap cards for the display and the VRam beasts for octane.

Cheers, mib

[Sandrust]

Thanks for that.
I "assumed" that would be the case but wanted to confirm before going ahead with my purchase of a 3gb GTX580.
Steve

[mib2berlin]

Sometimes users got problems with combination of quadro + gtx, look here:

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 66&start=0

Other got no problems to install two different driver.

Cheers mib