Having a bad week of it - help needed!
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Full disclosure, part of the problem is with the KSI (#helpdeskhumour) . So I had a problem a while back with GPU renders freezing the graphics card and giving me black screen and forcing me to reset. I resolved the issue. Now i have some new gubbins in the machine and it has come back. And I cannot for the life of me remember how I solved it. I've done the obvious stuff like updating the drivers for the Mobo, Chipset and Graphics Card. Anybody has any other suggestions?
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If all is up to date, and you want to render large memory consuming renders, please reboot Poser, reduce the Bucket Size in the render settings and see what gives during the next renders.
Best regards, Tony.
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Was is anything to do with adjusting the TDR delay setting for the graphics card?
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Sounds like the TDR reset stuff ...
Here's the instructions of what to add in the registry
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@deecey I'm leaning towards this as the issue. I've had to change me TDR value in order to render more complex scenes but my experiences with tdr timeouts never forced me to reboot my machine from a hard lock. My driver would always recover and I could pickup from where I started.
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When I first got a GTX-1080 I had hard freezes, BSOD's, pretty much everything until I did the TDR reset. It's a Windows system issue, not a Poser issue. Evidently it's not something that you can set in the software itself, unfortunately.
I saved a registry file after I added to the registry, so that I didn't have to look it up all the time LOL
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@deecey Yeah TDR values are a very common to change for a lot of rendering systems. I've seen it mentioned on Blender forums and other render engine/graphically oriented sites. Isn't the default TDR value 5 or something? lol
Are you using win10? I'm still on Win7 and TBH I think my computer is more stable than any win10 computer that I've used. This comp desperately needs to be upgraded but I'm afraid that I'll lose my super stability. iirc my record uptime on this comp is 185 days. In contrast the longest I've had a win10 computer running was probably less than 7 because of some software or hardware conflict nonsense... or just because win10 decided it was time to reboot for laughs.
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@amylbone Thanks for the help guys, it appears however to have been the death throes of my Graphics Card as it won't even come back when I reboot now. (even unplugging everything and replugging it in). I've had to plug my old GT 740 back in sob! I need to start saving up for an upgrade I guess.
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@deecey Thanks, I'll save the link for the next time I forget how to fix this.
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Hi there
This does look like yours GPU failed, can you check if its recognised in Device Manager and if there is any error or exclamation mark?
Regarding the TDR I personally set this to 8 and works for me, I would recommend use this small utility which is way easier than registry modification
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/tdr-manipulator-v12-released
As right now I would go with used GTX1080Ti or GTX1070Ti which are now reasonably priced, bought for friend used GTX1070Ti for £250 and friend is happy with this card
Hope this helps
Thanks, Jura
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Another problem now is finding a graphics card that can be used for gpu renders in poser as the latest Nvidia (Turing cards) won't work and of course neither will AMD cards, so you'll have to look for a Nvidia 10series or older.
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@j-naylor73 I'm giving serious thought to upgrading my CPU instead and shifting back to CPU based renders. My board will take anything up to a Ryzen 7 1800x. Although for budgetary reasons I am probably looking at Ryzen 5 1600X.
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I did some comparisons betwean cpu and gpu rendering times here
https://forum.smithmicro.com/topic/4178/graphic-card-for-poser-which/2
If you are interested.
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@j-naylor73 said in Having a bad week of it - help needed!:
I did some comparisons betwean cpu and gpu rendering times here
https://forum.smithmicro.com/topic/4178/graphic-card-for-poser-which/2
If you are interested.
Thanks that definitely seems to support my idea of going for a high end CPU first and foremost. I've also noticed, although I may be imagining it, CPU renders seem a little sharper and nicer if prone to be a little noisier.
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@amylbone there is no difference between cpu and gpu renders unless you are using different settings (branch path tracing on comes to mind)
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@j-naylor73 I was disapointed my new RXT 2060 does not render superfly, however I found a listing on EBAY for new EVGA GT970 at $100, and 3 days later I'm rendering fast. I can vouch for the seller as the card is new but its in bulk packing material rather than EVGA logo box. Looks like it was surplus cards from a 2016 system builder.
