Embree raycaster for V-Ray

[Alligaunal]

Works VrayEmbree with CPU Intel I7 920 and os WinXPx64?
The plugin is not loaded in max2010: "Error Loading DLLs:<C:\Program Files .....................\vrayembreee2010.dlo> failed to inizialize. Error code 127

Same problem! Solutions?
thanks
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[super gnu]

has anyone actually seen a speed benefit from the avx version yet? since most reviews ive seen of the sandy bridge cpus talk about how the avx instruction set DOUBLES floating-point maths performance, any ideas why its not providing a major benefit?

im trying to decide at the moment between a single machine with a pair of older generation overclocked Xeons, or a pair of single cpu sandybridge machines.

- obviously i prefer the idea of having all the power in one machine, but i dont want to miss out on a potential big boost in speed that is just around the corner.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

I think that Chaos is working on it and we will see some benefits within next 6 months or so using new technology...

[vlado]

has anyone actually seen a speed benefit from the avx version yet? since most reviews ive seen of the sandy bridge cpus talk about how the avx instruction set DOUBLES floating-point maths performance, any ideas why its not providing a major benefit?

I'm not sure about that; it could be due to compiler options and such. We need to play with this a bit more - it's a new thing for us as well.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Alligaunal]

I'm not sure about that; it could be due to compiler options and such. We need to play with this a bit more - it's a new thing for us as well.

Best regards,
Vlado

Vlado, I would say if in the future these tools will be compatible with XP pro 64bit?
thank you very much

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[vlado]

Vlado, I would say if in the future these tools will be compatible with XP pro 64bit?

No idea, unfortunately. I know that XP does not support AVX anyways.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

I get unhanded exception right away even on the simplest scene. Also I get max to crash when I just try to create the embree helper.

[vlado]

You need the official 2.3 build, not a nightly build. Use the command panel to create the helper, not the menus (this seems like a Max bug).

Best regards,
Vlado

[bear75]

30% faster with Embree, but it doesn't work in DR...

[vlado]

It's odd that it won't work in DR; what happens then?

Best regards,
Vlado

[olly]

We're interested in the DR side of this. How would it work in a mixed i7 farm setup? Our farm has a number of Sandy bridge nodes, some early i7s and some 4 year old xeon nodes.

Cheers,
Olly

[bear75]

if i launch the calculation from the slave that is giving up during DR i receive this message:

[bear75]

which cpus are supposed to be supported? is there any list?
from early i7 (9xx) on, or even older ones (qxxxx).

[vlado]

The non-AVX version should work on any 64-bit processor.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bear75]

if i launch the calculation from the slave that is giving up during DR i receive this message:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]10403[/ATTACH]

ok Vlado, so i can't figure out what is going on with this render slave