GPU rendering terribly slow

A few weeks ago I noticed this problem but I haven’t looked at it because I used the cpu for the last few projects. Now that I want to start a new project I did a simple test to see if thing are working as it should but somehow rendering a scene using the gpu is terribly slow on my system. No matter if I choose CUDA or RTX. Switching to cpu and the scene renders faster.

I am running :
- Vray 6 Update 1 (latest)
- 3Ds Max 2023.3
- Windows 11
- 2x RTX 3090 with driver 528.49 (I get a warning in the log about this but I don’t think this is the issue since I also tried other drivers)
- AMD 7950x
- 128 GB ram

In the log I notice a message ‘Failed setting device 0 context flags’
Could this have something to do with the slow render times?

I have attached the log screenshot and a simple max file

Re-installed the Nvidia drivers and Vray but no luck yet.
Are there any other ideas to fix this problem?


base.zip (3.32 MB)

HI, thanks for posting. Have you tried to test you setup with V-Ray Benchmark Tool and compare with the statistics there? I will review your scene and get back to the thread.

Try what I have done:

Reinstall your nvidia driver, but not express install but the second one (not sure the name now) and turn on fresh clean install.

When I do that, rendering was fine again.