I don't want to derail something existing with maybe just a personal issue, sry in advance then!
I'm a new happy user of TG 3 Pro now and I didn't had to face complete crashes or freezes like ppl in this nvidia driver thread in all.
But there are "harmless" problems for me too while using simple scenes ATM., maybe there are some coherence's with my and other ppl problems here in this thread.
My nvidia driver test results may point in any helpful direction I hope, thread related or not, I don't know, this thread seems to be mix of several issues to me..
For me, in any above Full HD renderings the render view, and TG 3 in all, stops to respond for at least around 5 to 10+ seconds (software isn't responding anymore message) @ reg. basis.
No big problem for me, as any of my render manages to come finally to an end nevertheless and I get no complete crash in all, my TG recovers everytime to it's full functionality.
I can live with it at this moment as it works in the end, but it doesn' t feels legit of course..
ATM. my TG 3 "high-res" renders are just 2560 x 1080, D. 0.4. AA 4, with animation settings, don't including:
- any populations
- any painted shaders
- any plants or other objects (inclusive fake stones)
- any cloud scenes
- any water
Switched from a Quadro 1000 to a GTX 580 in between months ago but I never had any response or delay issues before till yet.
I'm/was using the same Win 7-64 Bit installation all the time, no other Hardware except GK was changed on my PC.
Because of this thread I was testing some elder nvidia drivers too for my 580 GTX right now, all with the same project and it's settings shown above:
- Driver 327.23 + 320.18, in my case 5-10+ seconds avarege "downtime" message, but TG 3 recovers
- Driver 314.22, still gets a very 5-6 second "nope" responsibility message, but TG 3 recovers
- Driver 310.90 + 314.07, TG 3 don't get any software responding message, TG 3 seems fine..
(until I'm clicking in the last few secs around in TG 3's main tabs, while the software is finishing a render, no message in the render view pops up, only in the TG 3 main window then.)
TG 3 just seems to get ultra busy the last seconds of any render for some reason, time counter stops everytime for at least a few secs in the end even in simple scenes and the CPU
cooler starts to run very high again after all seems to be finished. A Higher-Res TG 2.5 GI render still finishes like a Ninja CPU cooling/sound wise with no delay or any message appearing.
BTW.: All the time, even using different drivers, my 580 GTX wasn't caring about any TG render and wasn't showing any higher temps nor higher fan activity (in my case).
Another test of mine which may help one or two ppl to skip thoughts about:
NVIDIA Inspector which helps keeping nvidia casual Cards low in it's states, energy consumption, temps and fan activity while using 2 screens with 2 different resolutions.
If some may using this usefull software too (like me), active or not, it wasn't never ever colliding with any TG related test render and/or result of mine at any time.
In actual tests my GK, which is a hot GK by nature, with old or latest nvidia drivers:
- NV Inspector off: 47 degrees - stays @ idle temp during a TG 2.5/3 render
- NV Inspector on: 32 degrees - stays @ idle temp during a TG 2.5/3 render
Don't know my post may help anyone anyhow or at last myself somehow, heh..
Cheers, Alex