SummersGone

Dev log 6.5

Added 2020-10-09 13:12:27 +0000 UTC

Hello,

Today an unplanned update.

In the last update, I told you guys about the strange behavior of one of my GPUs. (The 1080Ti.)

It's officially a vegetable now.

I don't exactly know what happened because I was at the other PC at that point (Both PC's are on the same monitor) and I was rendering on PC#1 while working on PC #2.

It did happen before that the fans of my 1080Ti did suddenly stop and re-start after 4-8 seconds. (The GPU probably turned off and on) It was nothing unusual but it made Daz crash. (Still, this shouldn't be happening.)

Then the glitch stripes appeared two weeks ago but it was still rendering.

Now the fans turned off again and I obviously heard it and expected to just restart Daz but this time the entire PC was frozen. I had to use the power button to turn it off.

After this incident, every time I try to render, this here happens:

If I open an old save that I already rendered, the same happens. I created a new scene from scratch and it also happened.

I reinstalled Daz a few times. I deleted the GPU drivers and used different ones
I did put the GPU into another PCI-E slot but nothing works.

If I open this scene on PC#2 it works just fine. I did now put my old 1070Ti into PC#1 and it works but I cannot render with the 1070Ti because all my scenes exceed 8GB Vram.

Now I need a 3090 more than ever.
I would say it was almost a good timing for my old 1080Ti to turn into a vegetable but sadly 3090s are not in stock. I wish it would have lasted a month longer.

Long story short: We are one PC down right now. (I planned to use both PC's for the end cinematic.)

In other news.

I just had to change Nojiko's skin. Her old skin was just horrible.
I now gave her a high-quality skin and she looks much better.

I will obviously have to redo the Nojiko renders of this update, but not before the release.
I will redo them with the first bugfix after the initial release so that no one has to wait longer.

- Ocean
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