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GTX 980 Woes and Joy

ValkeerieValkeerie Posts: 159
edited December 1969 in New Users

A little Xmas tale to warm the heart ....

I've been using DS a lot over the last month, and my GTX 760 had begun to bog down on a large scene. I thought I would treat myself to a GTX 980. It's gonna fly I thought.

But it didn't. It went like treacle on a cold day. I spent a half a day doing furmark benchmarks and reading forums and deleting and installing drivers ad nauseam. To no avail. I resigned myself to owning a £400 paperweight.

But then ... knee-deep in this forum, snuck in at the end of a post, I found a vital tip.

I'm posting it now just in case there are others like me. Go to Preferences, Interface, Display Optimisation, and set it to 'Best'. Now it flies.

Valkeerie

Comments

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
    edited December 1969

    I'll gladly take the 760 off your hands :P
    It's probably better than the GTX 460 I've got now. Used to use SLI with 2 460's but my GF's graphics card died so I put one of them in her pc.

    What do you use for rendering? From what I understand, 3Delight (which is what I use) doesn't use the graphics card. I haven't messed with the OpenGL option, is it better?

  • ValkeerieValkeerie Posts: 159
    edited December 1969

    kaotkbliss said:
    I'll gladly take the 760 off your hands :P
    It's probably better than the GTX 460 I've got now. Used to use SLI with 2 460's but my GF's graphics card died so I put one of them in her pc.

    What do you use for rendering? From what I understand, 3Delight (which is what I use) doesn't use the graphics card. I haven't messed with the OpenGL option, is it better?

    When I mentioned opengl I was referring to viewport performance. I use 3Delight for rendering. I have Reality 4.0 and Luxrender, but my experience has been very mixed. When I used a GPU in hybrid mode the numbers said it was flying but the image was rubbish, full of hot pixels, and much worse after the same time than a pure CPU render. Plus it seemed to leak all the memory in my system and crashed. Reality also seems buggy atm (I'm on the official forum) and I've parked it until the dust settles.

    With hindsight I could probably have cranked the Display Optimisation up to 'Best' with the 760 and been fine. Live and learn :-)

    Valkeerie

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
    edited December 1969

    Ahh, I see. I didn't even know you could adjust viewport graphics :O That might come in handy next time a scene starts to bog down!

  • adegneradegner Posts: 42
    edited December 1969

    if rendering in Lux disable the GPU and Reality renders much faster without artifacts. My gtx 780 was a unhappy camper until i figured it out

  • throttlekittythrottlekitty Posts: 173
    edited December 1969

    valkeerie said:
    kaotkbliss said:
    I'll gladly take the 760 off your hands :P
    It's probably better than the GTX 460 I've got now. Used to use SLI with 2 460's but my GF's graphics card died so I put one of them in her pc.

    What do you use for rendering? From what I understand, 3Delight (which is what I use) doesn't use the graphics card. I haven't messed with the OpenGL option, is it better?

    When I mentioned opengl I was referring to viewport performance. I use 3Delight for rendering. I have Reality 4.0 and Luxrender, but my experience has been very mixed. When I used a GPU in hybrid mode the numbers said it was flying but the image was rubbish, full of hot pixels, and much worse after the same time than a pure CPU render. Plus it seemed to leak all the memory in my system and crashed. Reality also seems buggy atm (I'm on the official forum) and I've parked it until the dust settles.

    With hindsight I could probably have cranked the Display Optimisation up to 'Best' with the 760 and been fine. Live and learn :-)

    Valkeerie

    I suspect that the settings below "best" are for much older hardware (and possibly some laptop GPUs)

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