I have been working on a project of an apartment, and stumbled upon incapability of my GPU to work well with D5. I have RTX 3050 Ti 8GB (laptop), and it has always worked well with Blender, Lumion, Twinmotion and Enscape.
However, with the same geometry complexity, D5 keeps on exploding my GPU nearly every single time. Only tiny projects work relatively well.
Therefore I have few questions regarding this:
What would make D5 file work faster and smoother - use of D5 assets for everything, or use of 3D models in a mother file (Rhino in my case) and then just applying materials?
Is there any real method to tackle such an unstable work of D5? I already tried GPU overclocking fix and virtual memory allocation. All my drivers are up to date. I just can’t understand how D5 can use so much more resources compared to other render software, so I assume it might be the issue of settings or compatibility…?
D5 uses real-time ray tracing from the ground up, and we have recently added real-time Path-Tracing compared to others, which significantly increases the GPU load. Additionally, assets that consume a significant amount are dynamic assets and scatter assets, on top of environmental effects such as volumetric light, custom PT parameters, etc.
I would like to confirm, how heavy are these files that you’re talking about?
For reference, I am also using a laptop with RTX 3070 8GB VRAM (ROG Zephyrus G15), and so far, I can handle simple to moderately complex files but in no terms can handle files that exceed 7GB or more, which is expected considering that I only have 8gb VRAM (which is really insufficient for any rendering work). And since I can’t upgrade yet, I go heavily on asset organization and such.
You can try disabling Path Tracing and running in smooth mode.
And I think a mix of both (imported 3d model and assets from online library) is better if these assets/models you’re looking for are not found in our library.
Hello! Thank you for your response.
Currently my file has a weight of 5GB, it’s a four room apartment, with some models from Rhino and some assets from D5. I always run the file in Smooth mode, otherwise it becomes way too slow or crashes.
As far as I understood, diabling Legacy D5 comptible Mode equals disabling path tracing?
