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Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv � Message #63476

From:	Steve Oakley <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject:	Re: [AE] Video Card Question
Date:	Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:53:23 -0600
To:	After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

now to try this on mac. I think I tried this out a while ago and it was crash city. however maybe the newest release of AE will play nice.

FWIW I wasn’t able to open the nvidia FTP link even though I signed up as a dev. if anyone has a link to the updated mac lib, please share :)

while I get it AE is going to use C4D as its 3D render engine, not being able to update and re-render older projects is a pain. I mean projects from 2-3 years ago. the CUDA / OPTIX ray tracer has a particular look I like and can’t get with C4D. I’d be ok with not being able to create new comps using the CUDAtracer, but one should be able to still render older projects.

· Open the “raytracer_supported_cards.txt” file with notepad and add in your GPU name. The GPU name is simply the full name of your GPU. For eg, mine was “GeForce GTX 1070”. If you are not sure, you can run GPU sniffer in CMD to see the name.

I did run into some weirdness in element3d that this did fix. I haven’t tested with any mettle products yet.
Adobe isn’t doing any further work on the ray trace engine, putting their focus on the cinema4d integration. Also, the new pascal architecture nvidia introduced in the 10 series gpu is taking many developers a while to adapt to.

Also, check for driver updates from nvidia often, the current version is 388.31.

On Nov 27, 2017 4:16 PM, "richard bogusz" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
I just added a 1070ti in my main system, and ran across this:

https://wccftech.com/after-effects-does-not-support-gtx-10-series-graphics-cards-for-cuda-ray-traced-3d-rendering/

if you often enable ray tracing for 3d instead of the cinema4d renderer, or use video co-pilot’s excellent element3d, you might want to follow these steps to enable support for the gtx 10xx series and nvidia’s pascal architecture.

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