Loading Bitmaps...

[glorybound]

Loading bitmaps... is a deal breaker for my GPU rendering. No textures are larger than 2K, all converted to TX files, and for any changes, I sit and stare at Loading bitmaps for 2-3 minutes. Am I doing something wrong?

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Hi Bobby,

I'm able to reproduce this on my side with the scene you sent me last week, it seems to slow down after playing with the scene for a while. Is it any better on your side if you swap to the CUDA engine?
FYI we are making drastic changes to this stage, uploading bitmaps, to make it faster and more efficient.

Best,
Muhammed

[glorybound]

I'll try Cuda and let you know.

[glorybound]

There is no difference. I really can't use GPU rendering. I have a pretty simple scene, and it takes five minutes to load bitmaps.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Which build are you using?

Would it be possible if we get on a call, so that I take a look at your scene?

Best,
Muhammed

[glorybound]

I am ready to call it quits with GPU. I hit render, and it renders fine and fast. I hit render, and I got Loading bitmaps for 21 minutes; same scene and nothing changed. A phone call would be great.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Follow-up

The issues was about Compressed Textures, with many high-resolution bitmaps in the scene it takes a lot of time to process and upload the textures. Swapping to Full Size textures or "Use System Memory For Textures" solved the issue. Time to first pixel is now within 30 seconds