Setbacks and silver linings! (Set update) (Patreon)
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Then yesterday night, wasted the whole evening trying to get Custom Maid part 2 renders started, but could not get my GPU to render (meaning it defaulted to CPU rendering, which is slow as f...), that ordeal made me realize all the slow renders I've ever done (full day renders) are likely because of the same issue (short story: if the video memory on the GPU is filled up by the scene, instead of just getting help from the CPU, it completely lets go of GPU and gives the job completely to the CPU, which makes no sense to me but whatever). I had never taken notice before but when trying it all yesterday, when I started the renders, the GPU monitor kept saying 'GPU usage 0%'.
Sssoooooo... I was fed up with tinkering and refused to change the scene to another environment instead just to save on memory as I've done in the past (a whole bunch of environments I have I can't even use because they don't fit in memory before I even add characters) and because I've been wanting a second PC all that time AND because there's only 28 days this month... decided 'fuck it' and went and bought a 1080 today.
This, by the way, is your contributions at work, so thanks again for the support. It means I can finally get back on track now. Spent a portion of the evening installing it, then for testing, I re-rendered picture 1 on the new set (which took half a day) and it got done in an hour. So success!
I'm gonna try something novel tonight and going to sleep early. Tomorrow should finally be back to work full-steam ahead!