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Using Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP5

My 3D View works fine in CPU mode, but if I change to GPU everything disappears. Just a blank, empty window with a lonely grid and a camera pointing at the nothingness. If I switch back to CPU mode, the scene redisplays correctly. This happens in all Shading Modes (except of course for Previz or Progressive Rendering since those force the system to use CPU).

To keep it simple I tested with a New > Empty Scene, and just added a Clarisse sphere.

I have two GeForce RTX 2080 ti cards connected via SLI. I tried disabling SLI, same problem (slight variation, won't even change to GPU, always says CPU). Turn SLI back on and back to the original problem.

I tried both the very latest Game ready nVidia driver (442.74) and the very latest Studio driver (442.19).

I know the GPUs work in other applications because I see activity on both when rendering in Arnold GPU in Maya.

Anyone else seen this?

Hi,

Here are some tips to make it working.

https://forum.isotropix.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5554

Let me know if it works for you.

Cheers

That did fix the problem. I took the suggestion of identifying only one of my 2 2080 ti cards to be used for CUDA, and now the 3D view works in GPU. Thanks for the tips.

The view is much faster, but could it have been even faster still by using both cards?

Hello;

For now there is only few configurations where OptiX in Clarisse can take advantage of several GPUs. You may need an NVLINK to make OptiX work on two cards. In the future we will work on this to support more several GPUs configuration.

Hope it helps,

Kevin