Autodesk have chosen to only implement iRay (the part of Mental Ray that can utilize the GPUs) in 3DS Max.
Theres an old thread about implementing it yourself at http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=10 <http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1948&hilit=iray> &t=1948&hilit=iray But if you want to use GPU rendering in Soft Id recommend you have a look at Redshift instead. https://www.redshift3d.com/ So to summarize. No, soft will not render any waster regardless of which card you get. Cheers Ola From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Rivera Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 3:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Nvidia GTX 660 and Softimage 2012/ 2014 Hi everyone. Yesterday I was talking to a coleague and he mentioned that a gamming card inside my cpu will "render" no difference against the GTX 660 I already have installed for softimage 2012, since CUDA wasn´t fully supported in that version of mental ray. So I wonder if I get the chance to install softimage 2014, how do I need to configure mentalray to use and abuse the CUDA power of the card? Will my renders go faster? Or I should definetly go the road of a Quadro card? Cheers. David.
