![]() ![]() ![]() If you target it for “indie” or small studio i think GPU choice should not be as much of a problem as every other 3d software company has worked around it! Their site is very specific about requiring “pro” cards (quadros/fire*) though most Nvidia cards will work lovely. It was not even able to select vertices in houdini viewport – you could not work with it! I had to pay even more to get Nvidia card. I paid over 400euros for AMD 7970pro when it was flagship GPU(surely it would best driver support, right?), computationally 3.5Tflop+. I truly wish success to SideFX and Houdini but i also think there are some things they need to iron out. Solution: Just erase wintab32.dll or update tablet driver* Reason behind it – Wacoms wintab32.dll(faulty module: wintab32.dll or msvcr90.dll) – maybe this is useful for anyone if they encounter same problems like i did. Thank you for feedback! I am very happy to hear these positive counter arguments and help offered! It took me 2 days and some rapid aging to sort this issue with navigation in menus causing a crash. Meanwhile I am grateful of course to SIDEFX for this gesture, but i kindly suggest anyone to play around with apprentice before. I’ll sort my issue, I am sure it is my own stupidity, I hope i get some help from support. If you package it for “indies” for 199$ while expect your software to only work in very CONTROLLED environments. Obviously not their fault, it’s AMD but every other 3d software on market is rock stable and has worked around these issues! GPU issues are not the only thing ( i doubt my problems are gpu related right now ). It also states that it should work fine with non-pro gpus, however in the past I had problems with AMD 7970 pro(powerful OpenCL compute card) where i could not even make a viewport selection due to some OGL issues, things disappearing and rendering falsely. You cannot pretend that everything is flawless, fast and stable – it is anything but! The packaging is “mainstream” however this “indie” audience does not have QUADROS while their site explicitly states “Workstation-class OpenGL graphics cards, such as NVidia Quadro and AMD Fire Pro, are required for professional use in production.”. ![]() I love sidefx, i want them to do well and this prompts me to write about these things publicly. I am happy for whoever has painless experience, i somewhat had in past(1 crash per hour is norm?), but to anyone else concerned, seriously try the apprentice before! I have decent gpu(titan), latest drivers and used apprentice successfully before! All i can say is this is depressing for whole day is lost (and probably a lot more). Even entering license (hkey) crashes (something to do with menus/UI). I bought it and have been struggling all day to get it to even work as it crashes on launch. ![]()
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