I’m hoping someone might be able to help me sort this issue I’m currently having where V-Ray GPU renders “blank”… no image, no alpha, nothing. No errors either though.
I’m running 3ds Max 2024.1 with V-Ray 6 Update 1.2 (6.10.08 ) and my RTX 3080ti has the latest Studio drivers (536.99).
I’ve uploaded a video example of a very simple scene in a fresh instance of Max (and a just-restarted machine) that illustrates the issue.
I’m also uploading a log from my GPU render and the ridiculously simple scene here as well, just in case.
Standard V-Ray works fine, but I just can’t seem to get GPU to work at all.
One thing I also noticed…don’t know if it’s the same currently, is that Vantage specified a different driver to Vray GPU, which I recall being annoying at the time, as I was utilising both.
Anyone know if there’s any chance we can get a version that works with more current drivers any time soon?
I’m now running into issues with other software, and their support is saying it’s due to my outdated drivers, which are four months old at this point.
I was just now again looking for which was the recommended driver and again it took me 10 minutes to find the page.
The page is V-Ray GPU | GPU rendering by Chaos
This page I needed to find through a separate Google search, as that link is nowhere to be found on the Chaos main page.
There is nothing in the general GPU section of the help doc page.
In fact, the only reference to using a non-recommended driver mentions that it will show this in the log.
It does not. I am using 536.23.
So whilst eventually I got there…yeah…room for more clarity I reckon
Noted, we have a new draft page which is 99% finished at the moment. It will go live within weeks from now
It includes Hardware guide, and GPU workflow section in addition to a new GPU Render Gallery
And yes, it will have a direct link from Chaos landing page
I just noticed that the latest Studio drivers (546.01) are now supported. Thank you!
: Hmm… The most current Vray installer for 3ds Max that I see is from May 3rd 2023, which is the version I currently have installed. Am I missing something?
Asking again, in case it got missed in the edit to my post above, I see on the GPU page that it says the current supported drivers are 546.01, which released October 31, 2023, however the most current version of Vray for Max released on May 3, 2023.
I suspect this is not correct, but wonder if there might be an update to Vray for Max available around the corner?
I installed the latest nightly, updated to the latest NVIDIA drivers, and it all seems to be working well so far.
Thanks for the tip!
Edit: I just realized I accidentally installed 546.17 drivers instead of 546.01, but everything still seems to be working fine?
I want to share my issue regardind to this topic. Today I had the same problem, all of a sudden the VRay GPU render stopped working after a 3dsmax crash.. I thought maybe some chaos server file was still loaded into memory and was giving this glitch…
But then I thought looking into the Log file.. and for my surprise the last error was:
[2024/May/26|17:23:36] warning: Could not use any of the selected (1) hosts for distributed rendering!
[2024/May/26|17:23:36] error: Local machine is not used for distributed rendering and no servers can join!
[2024/May/26|17:23:36] Max ray intensity is enabled: rendered result may have incorrect brightness.
[2024/May/26|17:23:36] [VRayRTMax::Render()] Cancelled before render
And I was using just my RTX4090.. never touched the Distributed Rendering ON option!!! So maybe a bug, maybe a hidden shortcut I might be pressed and it just turned it on… I wanted to share this so the devs could say if there is such chance for this option be enable by accident..
So other than that, it was just turn this option OFF, and the GPU render get back working again.. Yet using the latest Studio Driver v.555.85, and not the recommended version stated at the https://www.chaos.com/vray-gpu page
Yes, I was using Vantage most of the time, but since my shaders was using both VRayDirt and Curvature, and unfortunatelly Vantage still won`t render both of it, I had switched to Vray GPU.
So now I know that thats the culprit of turning DR on, thanks for the valuable information!
Do you have an idea of when we will have Dirt and Curvature being rendered with Vantage?
About Dirt and Curvature, they are on the roadmap for Chaos Vantage, they will be implemented at some point(not this year), although Dirt will probably affect interactive performance considerably
Great, having curvature would already do the trick for some things.. Since we now have displacement, I`ve been using Vantage more.
Let me ask you about SSS, I see that FastSSS2 is there at the docs, but I still can not make SSS work with Vantage… is there any trick on how to render SSS with Vantage?
