Questions tagged [hardware]
Use for questions relating to Blender's performance and usage of computer hardware.
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Installing blender on termux x11 with hardware acceleration
Is there a way to install blender on termux x11 with hardware acceleration?
Anyone with experience please help.
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Using two GPUs for rendering a single animation
As far as I understand from this question (and its answers), if we have two GPUs then Blender can use them simultaneously for a single rendering job (so this would be two times faster).
I did ...
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Can I delete org.blenderfoundation.blender files? / clear space on hard drive
I'm very low on ssd space and DaisyDisk says 357,4 GB are occupied with org.blenderfoundation.blender files.
Can I just delete these? These are not actually System files, maybe its something blender ...
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More Viewport windows = slower switching back from Full Screen?
I finally upgraded from 3.6 to 4.0 and immediately noticed a huge impact to my workflow speed when switching back-and-forth between a 4-pane viewport setup and Full Screen. I'm seeing about 3 seconds ...
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Is this good computer build for my Blender use case? [duplicate]
I've been away from Blender for a few years - I was using 2.79 then. I'm about to buy a new computer in large part to get back into Blender.
I use blender to make models and animations of my own 2 &...
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Cubby Long and Cloth Simulation [closed]
There is an idea to create a full-fledged short cartoon about a chibi dude from Shaolin.
The first episode is "A Dude Goes Down a Mountain to Get Water." The sketch can be viewed here. ...
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How can I get a temporary fix for a broken 'g' key on keyboard?
I have a hardware issue where it appears that the G key is broken. I won't be able to get into town to buy another keyboard for at least 2 days, but I can't figure out how to remap it properly. ...
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How to fix "Launch exceeded timeout in CUDA queue copy_from_device (integrator_intersect_shadow)" Cycles Error for Nvidia GPU's
i keep having blender cycles randomly crashing (stopping during rendering initialization), i'm using blender 3.6.2 with a RTX2070 and Windows11
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How does instancing improve render times with Cycles?
I can understand why instancing reduces the amount of memory used since you don't duplicate the polygons of your scene, you simply reference them from multiple locations in the scene.
From a technical/...
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Blender beginner looking for a new workstation [duplicate]
I'm a beginner in Blender and looking to buy a new workstation. I currently work on a Mac m1 pro 13". I reached out to a local shop and asked for a quotation for an assembled computer. These are ...
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What is wrong with my viewport?
I just installed Blender 3.5 and my viewport is completely wrong.
I can't find anything similar to my issue anywhere.
I've installed AMD ProRender plugin.
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Not sure if it's a hardware issue either.
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Blender 3.5 not working on my system
I have been using blender on my PC. (Intel i5 processor, 4G ram, internal Intel graphics card, CPU rendering only) Currently, I am using 3.41, but if I try to use 3.5 as a look-see, Bender mainly ...
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Blender can't utilize all 24gb of VRAM (Out of memory)
My system is 3090 Ti (24gb VRAM), 32gb DDR4, i7 8700k, Windows 10.
I've upgraded GPU recently because 8gb of VRAM on my old one wasn't enough, causing out of memory use or crashes in heavy scenes. ...
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Why is my lighting too bright?
I'm not sure why, but in the scene that I'm rendering (My first time, so I'm doing a donut) the lighting just doesn't work. As shown in the image, everything in the light is overly bright, and then it ...
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Trying to run blender on a Lenovo thinkpad x270
UPDATE:
Problem SOLVED, I installed a previous version of blender that only requires a two core CPU and now the issues are gone!
Is my computer model too weak for Blender, or is there a fault in my ...
