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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon DeclanRussell

[Q] Can this be used on OSX

Open schroef opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments

Hi there,

im wondering if this could be used on OSX as well. As i noticed you talk about .dll only. Is it only limited to Windows machines?

schroef avatar May 04 '18 14:05 schroef

I have some time this weekend so I'll take a look at it along with some other issues. The trouble is that I do no have a Mac. If you are Mac savvy and can provide any help with this it would be much appreciated! :)

DeclanRussell avatar May 04 '18 22:05 DeclanRussell

The difficulty with OSX also comes with the fact that the optix denoiser only runs on NVidia GPUs. If you happen to have a Mac with an NVidia GPU (which is pretty rare now) then thats great, but otherwise there isn't much I can do on my end to support you :/

DeclanRussell avatar May 04 '18 22:05 DeclanRussell

Thanks for answering, no my macbook i currently have doesnt have an proper GPU. Im using a render engine and today they stated that they propably are going to use optix. Im wondering then how they are going to solve the issue for none Nvidia computers.

schroef avatar May 05 '18 08:05 schroef

Thats a good question. Perhaps eGPUs will become a bigger thing in the future?

DeclanRussell avatar May 05 '18 13:05 DeclanRussell

The new mac are finally officially supporting eGPU. But it was already possible for a couple years to do it actually. Sadly i dont have the cash at the moment to get such a system. I really need it cause i wrecked my mid 2015 macbook pro cause of extended heat using a render engine to much. Atleast im 95% sure that caused it.

schroef avatar May 20 '18 03:05 schroef