Anwar 59 Posted December 5, 2016 Does Maxwell Render use an NVIDIA GTX1070/8GB video card? I never see my GPU running at anything other than idle speed when testing the trial version plug-in. 9 GrobockFiz, VaughnNub, Amulcoky and 6 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pylon 288 Posted December 5, 2016 Have you enabled GPU rendering? (Maxwell Display Options > Scene Tab, Quality parameter.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew West 350 Posted December 23, 2016 I bought a GTX1080 a few weeks ago and I have installed the latest driver. In the Nvidia panel I added Maxwell to 3D rendering. Now if I enable GPU rendering in the Display panel and hit render it launches Maxwell Studio and then nothing happens. No preview and no image. If I switch back to CPU it renders fine. What am I doing wrong? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pylon 288 Posted December 24, 2016 Hi Andrew, If you have a scene that renders properly with the CPU renderer, but not GPU, send information about your system, the MXS, and all dependencies to Next Limit for analysis, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew West 350 Posted December 24, 2016 They are a little slow to respond to say the least. I was just wondering if I am missing something in the settings. Shouldn't it be as easy as just clicking on GPU in the display settings? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Justin Montoya 324 Posted December 27, 2016 I bought a GTX1080 a few weeks ago and I have installed the latest driver. In the Nvidia panel I added Maxwell to 3D rendering. Now if I enable GPU rendering in the Display panel and hit render it launches Maxwell Studio and then nothing happens. No preview and no image. If I switch back to CPU it renders fine. What am I doing wrong? What about Fire? Does the interactive render (Fire) work with the GPU? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew West 350 Posted January 2, 2017 Nope. Still can't get GPU to work. I just got a response from Next Limit support on a question that I asked on November 28th. Today is Jan. 1st. Not sure why they are so slow to respond. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJAB 110 Posted January 27, 2017 I bought a GTX1080 a few weeks ago and I have installed the latest driver. In the Nvidia panel I added Maxwell to 3D rendering. Now if I enable GPU rendering in the Display panel and hit render it launches Maxwell Studio and then nothing happens. No preview and no image. If I switch back to CPU it renders fine. What am I doing wrong? Hi Andrew, What do you mean about the Nvidia panel, adding 3D rendering? I don't think I have done this... (I have just switched to PC so Im a bit of a noob) Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew West 350 Posted January 27, 2017 If you have a Nvidia card you should have loaded a program from disk or online that has the Nvidia control panel. Launch that from your program files or from the task bar and then go to -3dSettings-Manage 3D Settings-(this opens the window) and then click on tab that says Program Settings. Under number 1. is Select A Program to customize- there is an ADD button you can click. Then just scroll down until you see Maxwell listed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJAB 110 Posted January 28, 2017 Andrew, What settings did you actually change? I have added maxwell but I dont know what settings I should change... Any suggestions? Andy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew West 350 Posted January 30, 2017 I don't change any settings. By default they have everything selected. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
