Vitalius
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I think I figured it out with blender on Windows. I would minimize the window and when bringing it back to focus, it was not responding.
Now, I'm trying leaving it up, just under other windows. I'm thinking my power options or something else (maybe built into windows) is somehow putting the process on hold or something similar due to it being minimized and that is messing blender up for obvious reasons.
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I do know that a lot of normal Fullscreen programs allow you to use Alt+Enter to switch to windowed mode (I believe). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=456884889 Though that might be more useful as a guide.^ That should work with any game. Oblivion just being an example.
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@Gmanliving Just so it's clear, PCI-e 3.0 x8 will not bottleneck your GPU. 2.0 x8 may slightly. Just stick the GPU in the x8 or x16 and the wifi in any of the other slots and it should be fine. A PCI-e x1 card will fit in any PCI-e size slot. x4, x8, x16, wtv. It will work fine.
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Yeah, it works pretty well in most cases. I just have a lot of issues with my system in general. I don't exactly blame blender, but I feel like it's partially to blame since (apparently) the developers favor Nvidia.
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Well, as it turns out, Blender 2.77 is still crashing on me. I just don't even know where to begin now.
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Ringcentral can do what you want. https://www.ringcentral.com/ I've used them before and they are pretty good, although their web interface for setting up things can be slightly confusing, they have a video and text database for helping you do things. And if you do need to call to do something specific, they've been helpful for me. One cool feature is that if you get office phones from them, they can be moved anywhere there is an internet connection and still work fine with minimal effort. If you want to do it yourself, you can setup your own VoIP Server: https://www.freepbx.org/downloads/freepbx-distro/ If you do that, you'll need to find a company that you can get a trunk from. http://www.sip.us/ It's usually fairly cheap. If they only offer Cloud PBX service, you may as well use Ringcentral as that's what they offer. After signing up for trunk service, the company will transfer your current number to them and so you can keep your same number. They should definitely be able to do that in most cases. Rarely, they cannot. Depends on who currently controls the number and local laws and stuff. Then you'd have to set up your local server with the PBX software (can be FreePBX or wtv, there are lots of options) to connect to the trunk and handle the calls. Note this will use your internet as VoIP is an internet based utility effectively. You need like 1 Mbps down/up for four people (depends on quality of call among other things but generally that) at most 2.
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nice I'm fine with long times, but 10 seconds equating to 14.75 days is a bit ludicrous. It's just text that moves and a wee bit of lighting. I didn't even 3D model anything except a block that doesn't move. It's fairly confusing to me, but I just attribute it to Windows (Linux blender renders 1/2 the time usually according to benchmarks I've seen), and my system being very broken or beta or experimental or wtv you'd call it. Related thing: Turning my render samples down from 2000 to 750 cuts the time down from 14.75 days to 3.82 days. My question is: How do people who do this for a hobby and actually model complex animated scenes handle this? I imagine two things they do is use 1080p at 30 FPS, which probably cuts their times down to a few hours, but geez.
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I really should learn how to troubleshoot software better. Using blender 2.77 doesn't cause crashing during rendering on Windows for me. 2.78a however does cause it.
It will still take 14.75 days to render my 10 second video.
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I'm fine with long times, but 10 seconds equating to 14.75 days is a bit ludicrous. It's just text that moves and a wee bit of lighting. I didn't even 3D model anything except a block that doesn't move.
It's fairly confusing to me, but I just attribute it to Windows (Linux blender renders 1/2 the time usually according to benchmarks I've seen), and my system being very broken or beta or experimental or wtv you'd call it.
Related thing: Turning my render samples down from 2000 to 750 cuts the time down from 14.75 days to 3.82 days.
My question is: How do people who do this for a hobby and actually model complex animated scenes handle this? I imagine two things they do is use 1080p at 30 FPS, which probably cuts their times down to a few hours, but geez.
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Yes, you want to change the subnet. 255.255.255.0 gives you 253 IP addresses. 255.255.252.0 gives you 756 IP addresses. You probably won't need more than that though. If you do, here's a table to give you an idea. If you really never want to have an issue with this again, you can just do 255.255.0.0 and have 65,535 IP addresses. You're gonna need to do this on the Router and if any devices have static IP addresses, you need to change the subnet mask on those individually.
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lol Yeah, you know. I just had a thought. There better be an AMV of Vash's antics to the song "Wanted: Dead or Alive". Windows 10 after the Anniversary Update allows you to install what they call "Ubuntu for Windows" if you have the 64-bit version of Windows. From what I can tell so far, it essentially emulates Ubuntu (though only CLI) on Windows without a need for Hyper-V or other Virtualization software. All my drives are just mounted in /mnt/c or /mnt/d for the C:\ and D:\ drives. It's pretty neat. A lot of stuff works by default. i.e. wget, dd, etc. Unfortunately, some commands work in that they exist and run their function, but don't work in that the system is handled weird. i.e. if I do lsblk, I don't get a list of any devices. Like, at all. But it doesn't complain about /sbin/lsblk not existing for example. Weird but cool.
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Using Bash on Windows and it's pretty neat. I'll probably use this a lot.
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Yeah, you know. I just had a thought. There better be an AMV of Vash's antics to the song "Wanted: Dead or Alive".
Windows 10 after the Anniversary Update allows you to install what they call "Ubuntu for Windows" if you have the 64-bit version of Windows.
From what I can tell so far, it essentially emulates Ubuntu (though only CLI) on Windows without a need for Hyper-V or other Virtualization software.
All my drives are just mounted in /mnt/c or /mnt/d for the C:\ and D:\ drives.
It's pretty neat. A lot of stuff works by default. i.e. wget, dd, etc.
Unfortunately, some commands work in that they exist and run their function, but don't work in that the system is handled weird. i.e. if I do lsblk, I don't get a list of any devices. Like, at all. But it doesn't complain about /sbin/lsblk not existing for example.
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Aaaand I broke my Arch install by trying to get Xorg to go from version 1.84 to 1.74 because the proprietary AMD drivers don't support >=1.80 versions yet. sigh Time to reinstall I guess.
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Johners, it seems that updating from 2.77 to 2.78a has broken OpenCL rendering for multiple people. I had just updated from 2.77 to 2.78a too before even trying OpenCL. I have the 2.77 package in my pacman cache, so I can downgrade back to it, but pacman doesn't handle downgrades with dependencies for you. So I have to down grade every file that upgraded. After doing this, 2.77 successfully opened. Still same issue with OpenCL though. I made sure to install opencl-mesa and ocl-icd as well. Still doesn't work. Another person has stated that I need the proprietary AMD drivers to do this and not the open source ones. Gonna try that next.
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@Midnitewarrior4 Blender is a useful video editor. It's free. No watermarks. Open source.
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I have not. I will try that next.
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AMD R9 Fury X. Arch Linux with kernel 4.7.2 Using Xorg latest version with the Open Source AMDGPU driver's latest version. I was able to get the GPU to show up in Blender's OpenCL compute option on Linux by using this: CYCLES_OPENCL_SPLIT_KERNEL_TEST=1 blender However, when trying to render, blender throws an error of sorts. It states it can't find "CPU FIJI" and fails to render at all. CPU rendering itself works fine but is abysmally slow. I can't just "do it on Windows" because whether using GPU or CPU, blender locks up after 5-15 minutes of rendering. Also, all benchmarks I've seen show that Linux has 1/2 the rendering time of Windows. Literally the only configuration I've gotten to work so far is using CPU to render on Linux. OpenCL support for Blender left beta 1 year ago. I get blender is open source, but my GPU is on the list of supported GPUs. I just don't understand what my issue is beyond "You have 'cutting edge' hardware and that means you have no support." I just assume my issues with Windows 10 are Windows being Windows. No matter what happens regarding this, I've already long since decided I will never buy hardware with experimental or new features again. Meaning, no Vega HBM2 for me. I'd honestly prefer GDDR5 and compatibility than the mess I've experienced all because I own a Fury X. I'm even considering going Nvidia just because they are better supported due to higher market share, even though I'd rather support AMD because I don't like the concept of a monopoly. sigh
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It's going to take blender 14.58333... days to render a 10 second intro.
Hopefully I can get Linux to recognize my GPU so Blender can try using that instead. :c-
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Johners, it seems that updating from 2.77 to 2.78a has broken OpenCL rendering for multiple people. I had just updated from 2.77 to 2.78a too before even trying OpenCL.
I have the 2.77 package in my pacman cache, so I can downgrade back to it, but pacman doesn't handle downgrades with dependencies for you. So I have to down grade every file that upgraded.
After doing this, 2.77 successfully opened. Still same issue with OpenCL though.
I made sure to install opencl-mesa and ocl-icd as well. Still doesn't work.
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Will do man. Thanks.
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Nice.
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@Technicolors Sure, I'm not selling it just yet. Have to do some stuff first, but once I do, sure. I still have 99% of the accessories that came with it. I say 99% because I lost a single thumb screw. But they give you 4 extra so yeah.
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... I'm just so frustrated with blender right now.
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It's.... It's literally in the name. >Hyper M.2
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZONEZMM ASUS makes an M.2 PCI-E card that isn't a mini. It's cheaper. It's just full size. Meaning, taller.
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.... I'm like 90% sure curved 16:9 monitors don't exist. Re: see edit. I'm assuming you meant Curved Ultrawide. Curved Ultrawide is very worth it imo. I've used both flat and curved. Curved, no contest. Edit: Turns out I'm wrong. >that is over 2 years old >googling "16:9 monitor curved" only results in that one link regarding 16:9 curved monitors. Weird. Well, then I'd say yeah, get the curved 16:9 monitor. Curved is so worth it.
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You're welcome. I would just install all these applications on Debian. There is merit to isolating them, but odds are, unless you do something wrong in installing them, there won't be an issue with them all running on the same computer. I currently have Plex Media Server installed on my Arch Server (and I had it installed on my Debian server before that). I will one day care to deal with ownCloud, but my internet speed means that isn't worth doing at this time. I would virtualize the OSes you want to use for testing using QEMU, and I would install Samba if your main computer (i.e. the one you are on now or whatever you use to browse the web, watch content, or wtv) is Windows. Configuring Samba is fairly easy. If you use Apple, you'll want AFP for sharing files over the network to it, and if you use Linux, Debian comes with NFS installed. Alternatives to virtualizing with QEMU: VirtualBox, VMware, Xen, and KVM. Note: there is AQEMU which is a GUI for QEMU in case you prefer GUIs over CLI. You'll want to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for a web server (you can swap out Apache, MySQL, or PHP for your preferred web daemon, database software, or Server-Side scripting language respectively). Other options for Web Daemons: nginx and lighttpd. Other options for database software: MariaDB, Oracle, and Percona. Other options for Server-Side scripting language: CGI/Perl, ASP, Java, and Cold Fusion. For VPN, I know of two options. Either just using OpenVPN, or using SoftEther. I've used both. Both work well. Here's a list of plugins for FreeNAS to give you an idea of what other software you might want to use:
My question is: How do people who do this for a hobby and actually model complex animated scenes handle this? I imagine two things they do is use 1080p at 30 FPS, which probably cuts their times down to a few hours, but geez.
