Well this would not affect your 8600GT, as I said, we would bundle sm_13 kernel and above. The 8600GT needs a 1.1 kernel, which we don't support officially anymore.
Am 11.12.2011 19:38, schrieb Davis Sorenson: > I have to agree with this, as compiling the kernel takes 15 or so minutes > and nearly crashes my computer. And after that it didn't even work (It said > it was out of memory, probably because my card is so old. It's a geforce > 8600GT). > > Davis > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Thomas Dinges<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> regarding the upcoming 2.61 release and Cycles/CUDA, some notes: >> >> In my oppinion we should bundle the three CUDA render kernels (sm_13, >> sm_20, sm_21) for Cycles on all platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX). >> >> Pro's: >> - People who want to use GPU/CUDA Rendering don't need any additional >> software, otherwise they would have to install the nVidia CUDA Toolkit. >> - Compiling kernels takes a lot of memory and time, this would be >> eliminated by bundling as well. >> >> Con's: >> - Release builders need to install the CUDA Toolkit >> >> Apart from that I don't see any other disadvantage. >> Sure the kernels are useless for AMD users, but the additional 230kb >> (compressed) won't harm inside the archive I guess. >> >> Brecht, any oppinion on that? :) >> >> Best regards, >> Thomas >> >> -- >> Thomas Dinges >> Blender Developer, Artist and Musician >> >> www.dingto.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- Thomas Dinges Blender Developer, Artist and Musician www.dingto.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
