Viewport 2.0 - Slower than a snail

[kunal_gupta]

Hi guys, I'm experiencing super slow simulating in Maya Viewport 2.0 despite having a good rig: Threadripper 3970X, 128 GB RAM, Quadro Rtx 4000. I checked the Task Manager during rendering and noticed Maya wasn't using the GPU at all, while the CPU's performance was at 100%.

To be more precise, I was running the simulation for "Smoke and Fire Following a Path" template that I got from here: https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...Example+Scenes

Any ideas what could be causing this and how to make Viewport 2.0 actually use my GPU? I'm currently using default settings on Maya.

[oglu]

If you are simulating its CPU only. And a sim does take time. A lot of time. Sometimes several hours per frame.