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# 1 01-05-2011 , 11:15 PM
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GPU acceleration question

On the mental ray website, it shows GPU acceleration "Runs on CUDA GPUs when present"

Maya 2011 comes with mental ray, but when I render, it only seems to use the CPU and not the GPU

I currently have a nvidia GTS 250 which supports CUDA, is there anything I can do to make mental ray support CUDA?
 
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That's most likely iray. mental ray does not have GPU acceleration.
 
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Yes Raxor is right. Iray supports GPU rendering, Maya does not have this intergrated into it's self. Hopefully this will be something that will be addreddes as it would be a great bit of kit to have.

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yeah cause v-ray already utilizes this
 
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