Glass demo
NVIDIA has just released a new beta version of their ray tracing engine called OptiX. OptiX is a real time and programmable ray tracer optimized for GPUs. More information about OptiX can be found HERE.
This new version of OptiX SDK adds the support of GeForce graphics cards. Okay cool, let’s see that my friends.
I quickly plugged a GeForce GTX 280 + R196.21 under WinXP SP3.
If you want to skip the boring survey form, just jump HERE to grab the SDK.
Here are the demos shipped with the SDK. All ran fine on my GTX 280:
Ambient occlusion demo
Cook demo
Tutorial 10 demo
Cornell Box demo
isg shadows demo
Manta scene demo
Photon map demo
I feel a little update of GPU Caps Viewer 😉
Thanks to Leith for the news!
Crashes on my GF8600!
demos won’t launch on my 8800GT as well, with out of memory error.
it makes sense after reading the “Graphics Hardware” section in the following link:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/optix-beta.html
GT200 is probably the way to go, at least for the supplied demos.
Yep, OptiX demos work only on GT200 based graphics cards: GeForce GTX 260/275/280/285/295 or professional cards like Quadro FX 3800/4800/5800 or Tesla.
but it worked on my 9800GTX 4 times. but after that an error occured. from then out of memory error is showing………i m using win7, 32bit, 196.21. i think in the final version it will run cause it ran 4 time nicely on my GPU…..
another message is cuda_host_mem_alloc error !!
i think this can be solved. but how?? any idea guyz
actually the demos ran fine on my GeForce 9600 GT 512 (latest nvi driver)
My 8800GTX based system also crashed using Forceware 196.21, even the Optix1 based Mandelbulb app ( http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=150985 ) that always worked, fails using 196.21
Rolling back to 195.62 fixed my problems
The problem is that I have a GT240 ( which is GT200 based ) and neither works…
Damn…. 196.21 driver was the culprit.
Now working fine with 195.62….:D
Maybe it’s the Vista/7 version of R196.21 that sucks because I had no problem with them under XP…
JeGX, you’re right.
I tried under Vista64 only.
I double-checked using WinXP32 + 196.21 + 8800GTX – it works fine.
The problem has been posted here
http://developer.nvidia.com/forums/index.php?s=fdbe759e7e8243d2874c6f4de621f24e&showtopic=4110
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Tthe sample of optix can’t work under my computer
Win7+Gtx680 cuda3.2 or cuda 4.0